August 17, 2023 News and Notes

• The US Women's National Soccer Team coach has "resigned".
• Vlatko Andonovski announced that late Wednesday.
• And, in case anyone is wondering, he's Macedonian.
• The investigation surrounding Wander Franco and a possible 14-year-old girl is being led, reports have been given, by the equivalent of the "Special Victims Unit" in that country.
• They may have information next week, which probably means Franco may not be playing again this season, even if the truth indicates the social media information was false.
• Franco is a season and a half into a $182,000,000 contract -- which he gained after less than half a season with the Rays.
• The Little League World Series ESPN whoredom has begun.
• On the field, Panama has no-hit the Czech Republic in opening-round play.  
• The tournament takes a seeded double-elimination format.
• To give you two pieces of information surrounding the realities of the rigged NFL, two gems from the supposed fantasy-football "experts" at ESPN at a 10-team mock draft done as the end of their promotional Fantasy Football Marathon this week:
• In a reality where fantasy football used to be a hard rule of taking the running back first, the first round of the draft featured six pass-catchers and four running backs.
• In total in the 16 rounds:  75 pass catchers, 52 running backs.  And people wonder why the latter aren't getting paid.   
• There has been an interesting report, speaking of the Worldwide Leader in Snorts, about former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher and his adopted family.
• Oher now claims they never adopted him, but defrauded him for the rights to his NFL money.
• Lawyers for the family say otherwise, and claim the reverse:  Oher is trying to extort $15,000,000 from said family.  Hoo boy...   
• It appears the judge who authorized the raid on a home of the 98-year-old owner of town newspaper in Kansas has his own DUI to cover up that the newspaper was ALSO investigating (on top of the one of the police chief)...
• It appears as if two schools known for basketball -- one on each coast and both linked to moving their basketball programs to the Big XII -- won't be coming.  Gonzaga and UConn both had discussions with the move.