May 18, 2023 News and Notes

• Former World Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion Superstar Billy Graham was removed from life support late Wednesday afternoon and passed away soon after, after a long battle with many health issues.  He was 79.
  
• Bruce Miller -- five years in the NFL with the 49ers, then four years out and the COVID year with the Jaguars.  Probably headed to Federal prison now for wanting to execute Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell.
• A Wisconsin teenager was charged with six Federal counts of hacking and cyberattacks against DraftKings, and apparently 70,000 accounts and $300,000 were involved.
• Brentford's Ivan Toney has been banned by the Football Association for at least eight months.  Placed at least 300 illegal bets on matches.
• We may finally be seeing the beginning of the end of the North American League of Legends situation.  After basically consecutive 3-0 defeats by Cloud 9 in the Mid-Season Invitational, now six of the ten fixed second-tier teams (including Cloud 9's) have disbanded between the Spring and Summer splits.
• At least four went yesterday.
• And another Pride Night debacle:  This one in MLB, with the highest-attendance team in the league:  The Dodgers.  The Dodgers had scheduled California drag group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (a large-scale charity group which performs a lot in San Francisco, and there's no pretense or illusion involved of any kind!) to appear on their Pride Night June 16th.  
• Enter Nazi Shithead Marco Rubio (Fucktard-FL).  He threw a fit.
• They caved.
• Many Dodgers fans unhappy!
• Could they be trying a Deal With The Devil??  Knowing MAGA-LB, I would not rule it out!
• Rafael Nadal will not be playing the French Open this year -- and, as a result, he will fall to the point in the rankings where he might start needing wildcards to play the weekly events!
• Neither will Nick Kyrgios.  Injured his knee during the robbery of his mother 2 1/2 weeks ago.
• Montana has officially banned downloads of TikTok, as of January 1, 2024.
• And the quarterfinals of the Jeopardy Masters Tournament concluded Wednesday night.
• Game 1:  Mattea (8), Matt (6), Sam (eliminated in 6th place unless he wins and Amy finishes third).  Matt with a lockout, eliminating Sam and Amy.
• Game 2:  Nothing to play for.  For the record, James schooled Andrew and Amy to the tune of the total question values on both boards ($54,000) by the end of Double, and Amy laments why the soccer league rules had to be used.
• Semifinals two days next week, scores reset:  Mattea, Matt, James, and Andrew.
• Amy wins $75000.  And two for a win would not have saved Amy -- Matt and Mattea would've had six points each.
• Sam wins $50000.
• But, barring something shocking, I think we can just hand the half-mil and the Trebek Trophy to James now.  Save one Final Jeopardy shocker, James swept the field.  Had he gotten that Final, James would've gotten all 18 points.  The only remote prayer the other three players have is if a similar thing happens in the finals.
• To the surprise of few (except her identity) fans of the likes from Grandmaster Flash to Debbie Gibson, The Medusa was named the winner of the ninth season of FOX's The Masked Singer.  However, those (earlier in the season) who believed said Medusa was Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas were in for a shock:  The winner, instead, was British singer Bishop Briggs.
• Guesses, even to last week, included Ke$ha, Ellie Goulding, Lorde, Imogen Heap, but Nicole Scherzinger actually passed over Briggs' name on the list last week in naming half a dozen British singer moms.  (which was a clue that stumped a number of the above names off the list).  Ashlee Simpson and the lead singer of Evanescence were also listed in a confab of informal guesses.
• The final guesses:  
• Robin Thicke finalized on Canadian singer Grimes, on a clue of an alias.
• Ken Jeong completely whiffed it again (as he did on Gibson, who, when it sounded like he was going to go triple-threat, then took the wrong turn to Sarah Jessica Parker) called Medusa one of the best winners ever, then said Susan Boyle (??????).
• Jenny McCarthy (who correctly immediately identified Gibson because her husband is Mark Wahlberg of NKOTB (FKA The New Kids On The Block), and Gibson toured with the New Kids several years ago) went with Fergie.
• Nicole Scherzinger correctly identified Briggs by a similar manner McCarthy identified Gibson, remembering Briggs toured with Chris Martin.