May 25, 2023 News and Notes

• Florida sweeps Dallas to head to the Stanley Cup Finals.
• Police in Memphis were called to the home of Ja Morant after a series of social-media posts crossed the threshold of belief Morant might commit suicide.
• They basically were saying that he loved his parents and his brother...  and then "Bye"
• Police are saying he's OK...
• ... and that he's leaving social media.  That may well be correct, but now I want a psych evaluation as well as an investigation into gang ties before Morant can play again after a LONG suspension...  Given his recent conduct, I can see him being painted into a corner, and that usually, for someone that deep in gang culture, ends one of two ways.
• Ah, jordon fans...  The victory lap jordon-jockers are making has one (to whom I did the whole "foolish and wretched rigged ballhog" truth bomb) saying he'll put me in a coma next March when he comes to Vegas for March Madness.  Bwahahahahahahaha...
• I told him to deck himself out in all his Jordan memorabilia and paint his mouth brown -- because he's so far up kissing jordon's ass that he knows what Michael had for lunch...
• Three days ago.  
• Back to more serious matters, to a degree:  We have our ultimate Jeopardy Master.  The tournament ended Wednesday night with a two-game total-point affair between James Holzhauer, Mattea Roach, and Matt Amodio.
• Game 1:  James and Mattea split the second-board Daily Doubles, but James won the game and had about a 10,000 point lead going to Game 2.
• Interesting stat from Andy Saunders:  13 of the 60 clues in Game One were unanswered!
• Game 2:  The Daily Doubles were kept from James in Game 2!  Mattea had a single-game runaway, but needed to get Final right to become the Jeopardy Master.
• AND SHE DID NOT.  Congratulations to the only person who should've won, James Holzhauer, the first winner of the Alex Trebek Trophy and five hundred thousand dollars to add to his prodigious game-show winnings total.
• Mattea wins $250,000.
• Matt wins $150,000
• Seattle with a 6-1 win over Oakland.  Now 10-41 for the A's, and a run differential of 183, now higher than the 181 wins they have on the season!