May 2 News and Notes

• What did you find???  The state of Ohio terminated all betting on Alabama's baseball game with top-ranked LSU, claiming suspicious betting patterns.
• And this apparently now is a pseudo-permanent situation.  Again:  State of Ohio...  WHAT.  DID.  YOU.  FIND???
• The Writers Guild of America strike is now on, and the first casualty is the late-night talk shows -- all of which shut down.
• Leo Messi has been suspended two weeks without pay by Paris-St. Germain for unauthorized trips to Saudi Arabia to miss team events.  Guess where HE'S playing next year!!!  They've already been making several overtures to have him join the same league Cristiano Ronaldo is playing in.  It won't be a transfer either -- his contract is up.   
• Dillon Brooks was fined $25,000 by the NBA for failing to show for contractually obligated media availability for the NBA playoffs.
• He has been FIRED from the Memphis Grizzlies -- told that "under no circumstances" will he return.  
• It is now believed his mouth has run his ass out of the NBA -- he's probably headed to China.  Or at least that's the meme everyone has for him.  I heard the Shanghai Sharks, but is there gonna BE a Shanghai Sharks, after the crap they pulled in THEIR playoffs???  
• Ralph Boston, the 1960 Olympic champion in the long jump, died today at 83.  Boston was the first man to exceed 27 feet in the event.  He also took part in one of the raised-fist medal-stand protests in Mexico City eight years later.
• Speaking of 83, Gordon Lightfoot has passed away.
• Also yesterday, Tim Bachman, the "Bachman" or Bachman-Turner Overdrive, passed away.  He was 71.