This scares me, knowing what I'm going through...

I've had a health challenge or two in my late 50's this summer.  Vein procedures have apparently been partially botched, leading to blood clots in some of my veins -- and I've had irregular heartbeat and afib a couple times this summer.

So it scares me of the latest professional wrestling news out of Pittsburgh.

It's still in the semi-unconfirmed phase as far as the resolution, but the word out of an independent Pittsburgh wrestling show tonight is that Andy Williams, former AEW "The Butcher" of "The Butcher and the Blade" tag team, collapsed at the end of his match, leading to a CPR attempt and a trip to the hospital.

Reports coming in just as I type this indicate Williams has died.

EDIT TO ADD:  And now conflicting reports, including from the independent company, saying he isn't.  If the initial place which reported it (which DOES NOT have a good reputation in the classic "IWC") is proven to be false, someone is getting fucking sued.

And we've got a live one in Week One!!!

Western Michigan defeated #16 Michigan 12-7 today at the Big House.

That's not what anyone will tell you.

Ladies and gentlemen, a rigged result.

This Blog Should Not Exist, I Don't Remember What Part After 3.xxx: The Clancy Case, And Killing Us All And Letting Their God Sort It Out

This is included in that long-dormant series for reasons which, I hope, will become obvious by the time this is over.

I am left with some thoughts after the Clancy mistrial:  She admitted to killing the kids, but postpartum depression, etc. put the trial to an insanity defense.

And it appears that a jury of nine women and three men in Massachusetts had only one (presumably male) juror not go with the insanity defense.  Mistrial, we'll do it again.

And the bleating and the raising of the groyper pro-rape contingent on X (to the point I have drawn a second suspension in less than 12 hours on my...  10th...  12th...  more???  X account yesterday for basically telling one of them that if we meet, I will kick his ass and he better come armed to shoot me -- and he better if he wants to spew the bullshit) has left me with the following thoughts:

1) If you are interested in removing not only the privilege of voting, but also all involvement of women in places of power, influence, or safety...  How, in that world, can you have any more children being born at all?  Because the ultimate place of those three things is motherhood - and in polite White Right circles, that's the only purpose you have for women in the first place.

If some or all women aren't fit for voting or office or safety issues, etc. because of hormone possibilities, they sure as fuck aren't fit for carrying or raising children.  Especially in a world where all privileges and positions are removed from women.  Would that not immediately result in retaliation against the power (murdering more children)?

2) Some people (probably pro-rape men, mostly) are asking that if the hormonal defense can be used for murder, then why can't it be used for rape??

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Like it has been for years by valuable men like the Stubenville, OH football team, the Stanford swimmer, etc.?

Rapists like Bill Cosby and Donald Trump?

3) People are forgetting she doesn't "get away with it" if she does get the insanity defense.  That means she probably gets permanently locked up.

Of course, I guess any result short of someone finding where she is being kept and shooting her full of holes (or doing so in open court) would not satisfy people.

Which, of course, leads to my fourth and final point...

4) Much like courting transgenderism as mental illness of it's own right, is this another move toward identifying those to be considered mentally ill and executing them all?  (Transgenders, eventually the LGBs, homeless people, many prisoners, etc.?)

Something to keep in mind as the White Right Men (and some of the women almost certainly raped and beaten into submission) are spouting off...

Pre-season Week 3 Fine Blotter

This'll be quick.  Only five for the week.

Point of Emphasis, both for helmet fouls:

• Buffalo:  Jalen Kilgore, $5,560
• New Orleans:  Danny Stutsman, $7,011

All the others:

• Indianapolis:  Cam Taylor-Britt, Striking, etc., $7,791
• Minnesota:  Jermar Jefferson, Face Mask, $5,583
• Pittsburgh:  Donelko Slaughter, Taunting, $4,917

Pre-season Week 2 Fine Blotter

Forgot to do this -- Week 3 should be out later today.  I doubt, again, that any incidents here will count as strikes on the new policy until regular-season Week 1.

Policy-level fines first:

Helmet fouls:

• Arizona:  Karson Sharar, $5,372, on the opening kickoff
• Dallas:  Malik Davis, $6,735
• Las Vegas:  Dre Ogunbawale, $7,222

Hip Drop Tackle:

• Cincinnati:  Shaka Heyward, $5,972

Defenseless Player:

• Arizona:  Dadion Taylor-Demerson, $7,148
• Arizona:  Wydett Williams, $4,935 (all three Arizona fines in the first half, only Taylor-Demerson's was flagged)

Blindside Block:

• Kansas City:  Jake Briningstool, $4,972

Outside the Points of Emphasis:

Conduct, all this week for Taunting:

• Buffalo:  Chase Lundt, $5,868
• Las Vegas:  Jermod McCoy, $6,729
• Tennessee:  Cedric Gray, $7,131

Striking, etc:

• Tampa Bay:  Ted Hurst, $6,985

Sounds like the big loser of the preseason week was facemasks:

• Indianapolis:  Trey Washington, $5,583
• New Orleans:  Treyton Welsh, $5,583
• Seattle:  Andre Fuller, $5,112
• Seattle:  Aaron Smith, $4,917 (the two Seattle fouls were three minutes apart in the fourth quarter, but to the NFL's credit, both of these were flagged)
• Tennessee:  Oluwafemi Oladejo gets the biggest fine of the week, $10,625.

Well, that's it for me and Wheel of Fortune...

STIFF WARNING:  The referred-to article shows a number of references to child sexual assault, child pornography, and pedophilia.  Be advised.

I have to be very careful writing this for two reasons.

One, it's sensitive material to begin with.  There are definite lawsuit possibilities if one is not very careful.

Two, if I'm not very careful, I may do something I have been criticized for, baby and bathwater through association.

That said, after a BuzzerBlog article on the now-firing of former Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton, I have some very pointed questions.

If the story were as somewhat-innocent as I believed it was when it was breaking, I would've preferred it this way.

The now-reported reason the flight attendant called for law enforcement on the May flight is that Thornton was on a child-porn chatroom website for 57 minutes on a flight he was taking -- in Wheel of Fortune gear.

On top of that, a podcast which was done by a person under a pseudonym which MAY be tied to Thornton (the article, as well as I, have to be very careful here for lawsuit purposes) plugged said website and outs at least two people on it as self-professed pedophiles.

Two years ago.

TMZ has picked up the story -- but no confirmation has been able to be tied YET.

That said, Thornton is now 100% fired and being wiped from all current-season episodes already taped.

So, two questions:

1) Are law enforcement aware of this situation, going back to the 2024 podcast and working on POSSIBLE ties between that podcast and this incident?

2) How many conservative markets, even with the status of Wheel of Fortune as basically THE biggest show on television, may be preparing to pull the plug?

The only reason I'm not clarion-calling for it yet is that we haven't 100% got a tie between the podcast and Thornton.  That said, it is rather clear that Thornton at least hangs with people who are child-attracted, if the referred incident is accurate from the May plane flight.

Various odds and sods, 9/3/26

• (P)Enes Kantor "Freedom" has sued everybody regarding his transphobic ejection from a Chicago WNBA game.
• A Louisiana judge has cleared the way for LSU to recruit and play former NFL training camp players...
• One day after the AD of Georgia has proposed no less than throwing LSU out of the SEC conference entirely if they try.
• And the conference has now sued LSU to try to block the process as well.
• Steve Ballmer is looking into legal options after the NBA findings.  Try it.  Maybe then we can get a vote on throwing the Clippers out of the Association once and for all.  
• A flight attendant at a flight in May reported Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton, and asked for authorities to meet the plane on the ground.  It appears, not only from the veiled reports but from the fact the production is scrubbing early-season footage of Thornton -- he tried to get into the women's restroom or private flight attendant quarters.  He's been suspended, but, given the scrubbing, you can almost scribble in "fired"

Throw the Clippers out of the NBA

Said the same thing on the Kevin McHale situation in Minnesota a lot of years back, and I think that might pale to this.

The repeated salary-cap transgressions of the Clippers mean:

• Owner Steve Ballmer and President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker are banned from the league for at least one year.
• President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank for at least six months. 
• The team is fined $30,000,000
• And they lose their next five first-round picks.
• Leonard is fined $700,000.

Throw em out.  Go one team fewer, all non-involved players become immediate free agents.

As expected, he got waived...

Brock Rechsteiner's NFL career is over.

He will spend his six-week steroid suspension as a free agent, cut by the Saints today.

Gee, Brock, trying to tell us something as to your NFL aspirations?

And another sacrifice to football...

D2 opener, scored a touchdown, died on the sideline.

William Jewell's MicahJo Barnett died on the sideline during the season opener vs. Fort Lewis College.

No details, but my guess -- another headshot-laced or COVID-laced event.

The game was suspended.

Asshole in Milwaukee Alert!!!

(And I'm not talking about myself, circa spring of 1998...)

The rest of the preseason NFL suspension blotter...

Source:  MSN.

Already covered:

• New Orleans:  Brock Rechsteiner, six games, PED policy.
• Atlanta:  James Pearce, eight games, personal conduct, attempted murder
• Buffalo:  Phidarian Mathis, three games, apparently an alcohol-related personal conduct offense from 2025.
• Washington:  Dorrance Armstrong, one game, personal conduct, assault charge in 2025.

Here are the rest that we know of:

• Tennessee:  Nazeeh Johnson, six games, PED policy -- according to his admission, sounds like it was a fertility drug banned by the league.
• Minnesota:  Jeshaun Jones, three games, PED policy, unknown.  Might be alcohol like Mathis, might be failure to cooperate several times with the program.
• Indianapolis:  Probably the highest profile one, Cam Taylor-Britt, one game, personal conduct, reckless driving arrest in 2025.

This may get Al Michaels thrown off NFL broadcasts...

Knowing the NFL's ties to the military, government, and to Trump.

That said (with the reminder that the NFL does not allow embeds -- and an additional reminder this was actually posted by a MAGA piece of shit), in this particular case (and to those who might disagree on other stands, in this one ONLY):

All hail Al Michaels!

And we thought the Micah Parsons injury carrying over into this year would be enough...

Now REALLY scratch the Packers off.

Josh Jacobs, probably the second-most relevant player on the team to Jordan Love, has been charged with two misdemeanors, down from several felonies, for a domestic violence incident at his Green Bay house.

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Ezekiel Elliott game?

Dez Caught It?

How can you be so fucking stupid to even get NEAR something like this as an NFL player?

And double so as a Green Bay Packer???

Tick Tock, next part: The courts weigh in somewhat...

A circuit judge has banned the SEC from banning professional athletes from returning to college football and men's basketball.

This, on the same day the ACC made it an across-the-board ban of those athletes for football and men's basketball.

Tick tock...

The world of college sports is ending, people...

The recent court rulings rendering NFL training-camp invitees eligible to return to college and the NCAA has finished the job.

We're just watching the final downfall:

• The Big XII has banned all professional athletes from any sport.
• The SEC is going further:  Any school which offers professional athletes a path of return is DONE WITH THE CONFERENCE.  They lose their voting rights, half their athletic budget, and their head coach for at least half a season.
• The Big Ten has at least banned NFL returns.
• The ACC, the last of the "Power 4", is considering joining them.

The question now is simple:  Who's the first school which is gonna walk?

There is a 2026 Fine Blotter up for Week 1 of the preseason. And also the fine schedule for 2026-27.

Now, if I had to make a guess, since today was the day they announced the new policies, I don't think any fines from the preseason (or, at barest minimum, the first two weeks of the preseason) are going to count on this new policy.

Before we note of the fines for Week 1 of the preseason, here's the fine schedule:

A first offense of physical contact with an official will cost you not only the rest of the game, but a minimum of almost $42,000.  Double that for any subsequent offense.

Fighting will also carry the same penalties, including ejection ($42K and $84K)

They're upping Bench Involvement in an altercation significantly:  First one is a little more than $12K, the next one costs you $18K.

It looks like non-physical abuse of the officials has become a very serious problem, as they are upping the fines toward physical-abuse levels as well:  $33,523 for first offense, over $67,000 for anything further.

The player-safety list:

First, the five Points of Emphasis, all of which, once confirmed, carry a strike toward suspension after three, all carry first-offense fines of almost $18,000.  About $24,000 for a second offense, which carries a league meeting.  And a third is a one-game suspension, on top of the potential of any further suspension for the offenses themselves.

That's for Horse Collar, Hip Drop, Launching/Helmet, Blindside Block, or Defenseless Player fouls.

Striking and variants, low block, or chop block:  About $12,500 and $18,500.

Face mask or late hit without other aggravation:  About $12K and $18K

The rest (Leg Whip and Roughing the Passer):  About $18K and $24K

The straight conduct list (if I had to guess currently, this is probably the one-time full-rebate at the end of the season list):

Straight unsportsmanlike conduct costs you about $15K and $21K.

Taunting will get you the same fine as a Face Mask or Late Hit:  $12K and $18K

And a football into the stands costs you $8300 and $14300.

And here's the dress code stuff (probably also one-time full-rebate at the end of the season with no other offenses):

Any minor uniform violation (from visor tint to illegally-worn pads to foreign substances to the more standard ones of socks and the like you hear about):  $6K and $12K

Major violations (personal branding and illegal/unauthorized intellectual property):  Personal is $12K/$18K.  Intellectual property is $12K/$24K.

And one more section I see every year but I'm not sure it's ever called:  If a player ever flashes gang signals during a game, it is conduct detrimental to the league and goes to the Personal Conduct Policy directly for whatever penalties deemed appropriate.

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Now, Week 1 of the Preseason:

Striking and variants:

• Buffalo:  Landon Jackson, $8,190
• Cleveland:  Tytus Howard gets the full $12,537
• Las Vegas:  Tommy Eichenburg, $6,441

Conduct:

• Miami:  Ollie Gordon, $5,962, taunting

Facemasks:

• Detroit:  Thomas Harper, $5,972
• Tennessee:  Jerrick Reed, $6,361

And now what WOULD BE under the Points of Emphasis -- but with the policy announced today, I seriously doubt these will be treated as "strikes":

• LA Chargers:  Kendall Williamson, $5,972, impermissible use of the helmet
• LA Rams:  Darryl Peterson, $4,935, horse collar
• Tampa Bay: David Walker, $6,254, blindside block

Jokes aside, the NFL put out a far larger notice today.

And it is endemic to the Fine Blotters I used to post here.  We'll see if I get the time and want this year.

An OFFICIAL NFL Points of Emphasis For Supplemental Discipline has been released.

The NFL has put out the following five Player Safety Fouls for Point of Emphasis this year:

• Horse Collar
• Hip Drop
• Launching
• (Illegal) Hit on a Defenseless Player
• Blindside Block

The big news?  Any player who receives a Supplemental Discipline (and gets it to stand -- fine or suspension) for at least three of these fouls gets an automatic one-game suspension on top of any other suspension accrued.

I think I have a lengthy project ahead of me, if the NFL still has the data on its website from last year.

EDIT TO ADD:  Rats.  No, they took the 2025-26 ones down.

There is, of course, something the players get in exchange:

First, if a player commits only a single offense in certain other Supplemental Discipline categories, their fine will be returned, 100%.

If a player receives only a single offense in the Player Safety Fouls Point of Emphasis, their fine will be half-returned.

And all players, at least with respect to the Player Safety Fouls Point of Emphasis suspension, will start the 2026-27 season on a clean slate with respect to the current policy.  Not 100% sure whether that means long-time situations might get increased fines for a "first offense" of these fouls, but they will not already be counted against for THIS policy.

I will want to see if the league actually publishes the policy, as there are two other important parts:

1) Increased team fines for "excessive" Player Safety Points of Emphasis violations by a given team.  This is probably on top of the other team fines for excessive violations -- though those fines now are going to be more malleable, given possible rebates.

2) Any player receiving two violations under the Player Safety Points of Emphasis will require that the player and his coach submit to a meeting with the NFL.  No word on whether those meetings will be in-person or virtual.

An anachronism has been completely and finally put to bed...

The Pro Bowl Games -- and that meaning any on-field Pro Bowl itself -- finally died today.

And, as I've already seen in one Discord server with the report -- Nothing Of Value Was Lost.

The rampant sacrifice to football -- THEY ALL HAVE CTE!!! ALL OF THEM.

And the article in MSN from Amy Tennery deliberately obfuscates the situation.

878 former NFL players have died between the years of 2016 and 2021.

The article states at least one in four -- 215 of them -- had their brains tested and found CTE within them.

There's only one problem with the findings.

Not all of the brains were donated to science.

235 of them were.

That means almost 90% of the donated brains were found to have CTE -- an effective finding that every one of the brains donated had the disease.

That the basic finding should be that THEY ALL HAVE CTE.

EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.

ALL OF THEM.

The findings also assert that the players are already beyond brain-damaged before they even hit the NFL -- that the players are fucked by youth football and high school football and college football too.

Bad Faith Actors Get Nothing

An AP source indicates the two former NBA players who are trying to get every transgender person killed by farcically entering the WNBA will not be permitted to do so.

Transition and you can be in, assholes.

But you're bad faith actors, as your continuing incidents are indicating.

I will be more than blunt here:  I'm beginning to wonder if there's a longer play here, straight out of the Heritage Foundation.

It is no secret that these bigots want every transgender person dead.  On top of that, though, I think they have very little want for the women who are actually in the sport today (which see Kanter Bitch's incident last night, for which he might well get the same NBA/WNBA ban that some of the sex toy-throwing morons have gotten).

It is also no secret that many of the men in control of things in entertainment do not see a non-sexual market for women in anything except between their legs (colored as "fertility" by the Heritage Foundation in recent revelations).

But what of an NBA Seniors' Tour?  A summer NBA Legends League?

No one has proposed it, but I'd have to think some of these bigots have thought about it.

EDIT TO ADD:  On and off, Elon Musk has been trying to get people to drum up a campaign that Brittney Griner is a man.

A number of his supporters have said that a number of unnamed WNBA players are men.

A sacrifice to football which is almost personal...

I know I am not nearly all-inclusive when articles like this are made public, but I did happen across a frightening story this afternoon which speaks of a school very familiar to me from my Western Wisconsin school days of the late 1980's.

Alma Center quarterback Adam Massman was beginning his senior year with a game at Turtle Lake last Thursday night.  He was injured and treated, and it was found out over the weekend that Massman died of his unspecified (almost certainly head) injuries.

Alma Center was a school about 50 miles or so from Plum City High School, where I attended school (and now has it's sports in a cooperative with Elmwood, a neighboring town).  The schools would occasionally compete in track and field together (in which I was the school timer and ersatz trainer).

Well, this isn't something the NFL wanted public three weeks before the season...

Jed York, as of 2025 a 15% owner of the San Francisco 49ers (and it's CEO since 2008), was arrested over the weekend in Ohio, apparently over a prostitution bust.

Spent two days in jail this weekend over a no contest plea over disorderly conduct and possession of criminal tools.  Paid about $1200 in fines, and the matter is closed to criminality.  A prostitution charge was dropped in the exchange.

Look, I get it.  You do it because you can.  Ask Robert Kraft and Donald Trump.

But you can't think that's going to look very good to the NFL, less than three weeks before the season starts.

Hedge the 49ers accordingly this season.

DraftKings being deceptive again...

A DraftKings ad came across my Twitch viewing of the ongoing Race To World First in World of Warcraft tonight.

San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Riverside, etc. and so forth...

DraftKings Sports is in California, starting September 2nd.

It's the prediction-market workaround bullshit...

Bigot bitch wants some...

Enes Kanter Freedom, the bigot bitch who wants to blow up the NBA, took his anti-trans bullshit to the arena and confronted Chicago's Natasha Cloud during the game with anti-trans rhetoric.

He was ejected from the arena by police.

Gee, is this any shock?

Think these WNBA attendees were sending a message as to the only value of WNBA players, or women at large?

For the second consecutive night (both Thursday night and last night), a WNBA game was disrupted by fans throwing sex toys onto the court.

Does anyone need the dots connected here?

They don't give a fuck, Natasha Cloud.  The only reason you even exist to them is SEX.  And when you realize that, you'll realize the ass-kicking these motherfuckers need and deserve!

Discipline Blotter: Argentina Trump Cup Aftermath

Someone please explain to me why Argentina was not disqualified from the World Cup for the altercations at and after the Final.

If I go any further as to rationale, it would violate the blog's boycott.  But let's just say that Argentina walked around like it owned the place, and threw a violent hissy-fit when they found out they didn't...

Today, the suspensions came down:

Leandro Paredes has been banned from all international play for one year (10 matches) and fined $90,000 for assaulting two Spain players after the match.

Nahuel Molina was banned seven matches and fined $90,000.

Thiago Alamda was banned one game, fined $30,000.

One of the coaches has also been banned three games and fined $30,000.

The Argentinian federation has been fined $210,000 for an array of offenses in the semifinal and final.

#1, why is Argentina not disqualified, stripped of all ranking, and it's $32,000,000 runner-up prize money?

#2, why are they not disqualified from the 2030 Centennary Cup?

Discipline Blotter: I wonder if this means the end of joint practices...

The viral brawl in which the Steiner kid who's already suspended for PED's German suplexed a player has gotten both the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints $500,000 league fines for lack of sportsmanship.

Once again, I must remind you:  One of the things that the believers state with respect in their belief the NFL is not rigged is the fact that the league's largest cash-cow, the Cowboys, hasn't won a title or sniffed one in decades.

Again, a champion (not unlike some of the rigged music competition shows) represents the brand -- and it's as true for the NFL as it is for American Idol.

EDIT TO ADD 5:05 PM PDT:  Sounds like the Giants and Dolphins are probably next.  Big brawl today at a joint practice.

And this is why I keep getting banned, repeatedly, from X...

Luna Grace, on the White Supremacist Bigot Platform, stating that we on the Left want to put gender-neutral bathrooms in every home and airliner in America.

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Posted without further comment, except to say people like this idiot need their asses kicked.

Sports to the Right, the latest WNBA/transgender part...

Game in Atlanta Sunday night.

Three fans at the game wore shirts about the WNBA transgender row.  They were all asked to cover their shirts by arena security.

The WNBA, today, said that should not have taken place.

And, for the record, the incident did not discriminate on side.  Two were bigots, the other was a supporter.

Youth Sports. ESPN. Bad Idea: Part Two.

I will be STUNNED if we get through the 10-day tournament in Williamsport, PA without a violent incident.

The qualifiers from Davenport, IA are the center of a Houston Astros-like sign-stealing exhibition, according to MSN reports.

It's the "runner on second" who taps his leg to let the batter know what pitch is coming, says the team from Wisconsin.

Someone is going to take a fastball to the dome in this tournament.

NFL Suspension Blotter and some political MLB news...

First, three more suspensions:

• Atlanta Falcons:  James Pearce suspended the for 8 games, personal conduct.  For being accused of taking his car and ramming it into his girlfriend during a domestic dispute.  Let that process.  Attempted murder gets you only 8 games in the NFL.
• Buffalo Bills:  Phidarian Mathis:  Banned for the first 3 games.  Sounds like a repeat offense of failing to cooperate with the Substances of Abuse policy.
• Washington Commanders:  Dorance Armstrong, 1 game for personal conduct, assault and resisting arrest charges under probation in 2025.

And then, it sounds like the vibes against San Francisco's Pride celebrations worked for the Giants:

The Giants and the Bay Area host the All-Star Game for MAGA League Baseball in 2028.

And yet another story of why youth sports on ESPN is a BAD IDEA...

Every year, we seem to get at least one story a year as to someone breaching the rules to try to get their local sports on the Little League World Series (and softball as well) on ESPN.

Developing story out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Tulsa National softball team was disqualified at the championship game (one before they would go on ESPN for the Softball World Series, completed Sunday) for an ineligible player.

And now the story gets even messier:  The same has happened to the baseball team from that very same organization.  Disqualified at the championship game, as they were waiting to see who they would play.

No less than three other organizations in the tournament protested, giving at least five charges that the baseball team was also illegal.

Stay tuned.  I could foresee this getting all the way to arrests.

UPDATE:  They sued and won.  They'll play for the ESPN berth Tuesday.

AND ANOTHER TUESDAY AFTERNOON:  A higher judge reversed the decision.  Tulsa National is OUT.

Sports To The Right, Continuing WNBA Part: It's 3:25 Eastern on Monday...

Chicago plays tonight.

There is still no word on any suspension for DiJonai Carrington for either the two-armed shot to the face of Sophie Cunningham or the hateful social media screed after.

The shit is about to hit the fan if we don't hear it.

Especially in Florida, a state with no WNBA team.

The governor of the supposed "Free State of Florida" wants to make that kind of hit an off-court crime.

I would have no problem, except the fact that it's clear that it's because a MAGA cunt bitch got hit for be a bigot MAGA cunt bitch.

If this applied to all sports and levels, I wouldn't have a problem with it.  Will we see the "Cicarelli Rule" become law in Florida, possibly in other states too?

Sports to the Right, Part Eight: Tick, tick, tickticktickticktick....

Another Fever game, another few ticks off the time bomb:

This one is on the court.

In a moment that does want me to say "Hit her again!  Hit her again!!  Harder!!!  Harder!!!!", Sophie Cunningham got a two-handed/armed shot to the face by Chicago's DeJonai Carrington.

Quite correctly, she was thrown out of the game under the NBA/WNBA's "Excessive and Unnecessary" Flagrant Foul Tier II criteria.

But, on top of that, ESPN has reported that Carrington then took to her Twitter to yell "White Privilege!" at Cunningham and her Indiana Fever.

The suspension is expected Sunday or Monday.

Sports To The Right, Part Seven: And I don't mean this first line to be as funny as some people think it is...

"Of course you realize, this means war..."

Several parts ago, when I put a screed against Sophie Cuntingham, I entitled it that the WNBA will die within five years.

An action yesterday by two former NBA player bigots may have actually accelerated that to the end of this season.

Enes Freedom and Royce White have given the WNBA an ultimatum:  "Embrace Hate or Lose The League".

On the same day the WNBPA (the players association) rejected the hateful words of Cunningham and the usage of their two White superstars as right-wing political pawns, especially as it relates to transgender players, Freedom and White went Juwanna Mann and declared for the WNBA Draft.

Someone needs to kick their asses.  I don't give a damn if they are or were professional athletes.

Freedom is a known homophobe and transphobe.

I have said before of the after-effects of the anti-transgender sports movement.  Not only will it represent the murder of every transgender person in this nation, should it succeed, but it will also represent the end of all female sporting achievement.

If Freedom and White want to transition, they're more than welcome in the WNBA.  But even a cursory examination of this process indicates they are not and not going to.

And here's something a lot of people don't want to tell you:  The WNBA is evidence of one very simple fact.  The only instances of actual basketball (rather than the Curry and Fightball the NBA has become in the last ten years) people want to see are far below the professional level.

Sans prurient and sexual interest like the Lingerie/Legends Football League, there is not sufficient interest in women's sports at basically any level without force (economic or legal) to prop it up.

If these two pieces of shit succeed, it will end the WNBA one way or the other.  

Early NFL Suspension Blotter: And there's a 163 1/3% chance he's not making the Saints roster...

Brock Rechsteiner has been suspended the first six games of the season, but they say no one knows why.

Brock is the son of Scott Steiner.

I think anyone who's seen Scott Steiner the last 20 years or so can figure it out.

ROIDS!!!

EDIT TO ADD:  Confirmed.  PED policy.

Sports To The Right, Part Six: If you believe that, Mr. Denninger, why does Fauci still live?

(Neither of these are 100% due to sports, but both have many facets within sports in them.)

I had been meaning to write this post for several days after Karl Denninger posted this after Dr. Fauci 5th Amendment'ed his way through a Congressional hearing.

Anyone who paid attention knows Anthony Fauci tried to save this nation from exactly what will now kill it.  The sceptre of individual freedom to do whatever one wishes, even in the face of a threat to the public health.

In fact, our supposed Cabinet member in charge of health has openly now said that individual freedom trumps the public health.  Robert Kennedy Jr. did that on CNN last week.

Well, boy:  FUCK FREEDOM.  OK?

That same freedom is what got your dad and his brother killed.  One as President, and the other one would've been five years later!

That same freedom is what got 15-20 million people killed due to COVID -- a number far more than you or yours will ever choose to admit, because of the fact that you believe the vaccines did it.

And since you won't admit to that number, let me show my work.

CDC studies in 2023 showed that basically everybody had gotten the disease by then.  Even at a 1.5% death rate THEN, that would be over 5 million, or a number about three times the amount the American public was given.

There are two reasons I give numbers far greater than that.  The first is the Bureau of Labor Statistics underreporting the American population which is not in institutions or prisons or the like.

The second goes from the facts of US life expectancy at the time:

2019:  The life expectancy in total was 78.9 years, and going up.  Women were well over 80.

2020:  The general life expectancy went from that 78.9 to 77 in one year...

2021:  And from that 77 to 76.4, a nearly 3% drop in total, by the end of 2021.  This would represent a death rate of over 10 million THEN -- unless everybody had COVID by the end of 2021, not 2023, you can add several million to that number for 2023, and several more million to now.

And would you not know it?  In the five years since, the life expectancy number has recovered.  You'd think, with all the right-wing bleating about vaccines, that number should've stayed at the 2021 number, if not further shrank.

You're lying, Kennedy.  And so are the Republicans in the Senate who grilled Fauci and believe he orchestrated a mass-death scenario for America and the world through COVID.

Some questions:

If the US government had any real interest in seeing millions dead as you charge, why would I not be among that number for both economic and public-safety reasons?

If you believe what you believe about Fauci's role, why does he still live?  Why was he not executed by the US military at that point?

And about 80 million of the rest of us, who you've set a clock seeing us all dead because of what you believe the vaccines will do to us?  (Never mind that it's Long COVID, and in a case that the entire concept of organized sport in this country basically now becomes a crap shoot that you can die due to heart complications no matter how fit you are, in far larger numbers than what was before COVID.)

All for your freedom.

FUCK FREEDOM.

You want to see what "freedom" gets you?

You remember July and August?  When the country was on an ever-increasing path of violence -- and not just the BLM protests, but wilding riots of teenagers in Manhattan?

When MLB games were being boycotted because of the riots?  That the players took the field, laid their jerseys down, and left for a couple days?

I can't give you the question I want to (I've already had one visit from the Secret Service during the subhuman cretin's second term...), but if we put COVID out there to stop Trump...  Figure it out, liars.

We lose this country without Fauci's work.

But I think that's what you, Karl Denninger, and those who support you wanted.  As well as the MAGA Movement.

You saw the opportunity to slay 50 million Americans you wanted dead as defective or as undesirable, and you're too pussy to fire a shot for your supposed Second Amendment rights.

And COVID has won.  The only reason we haven't already lost 50 million is because of the work we were able to do in that first year.

Some of us remember how little people really cared.  The 2020 MLB nor NFL seasons should've been completed -- but, at that point, we probably do lose the nation.

Sports To The Right, Part Five: If you want exclusion and proper conduct, you're going to have to shoot your way there.

Another response to Karl Denninger.  His latest such screed on the subject of companies raising prices to exclude the "hominids like apes" (translated:  Blacks) is here, in part.  (To get the whole thing, you'd have to subscribe to the White Supremacist Libertarian.)

Let me save Mr. Denninger some time.  You're going to have to shoot them, then shoot us, then shoot the government of places like California, etc.

And if you'd like me to list the reasons (and this almost certainly is NOT an all-inclusive list):

1) There is zero benefit for them to act any degree of reasonably otherwise.

Give them money to shut them up, they want more.

Call the police, best case is they get three hots and a cot, significant improvement on their present circumstance.

I've been on the streets 9 1/2 years in San Francisco -- and, admittedly, this was before it got REALLY BAD in the last 10-15 years.  I could tell you stories from what I call the "Drugstore Gauntlet" to the guy who literally walked around town in a hospital gown on which he wrote "HITLER" on the back and wrote screeds of his wife Pia and a whole lot of other bullshit.

This country is going to have to learn a hard truth:  There are any number of people in this country with absolutely nothing left to lose -- probably many of them in the demographic Denninger speaks of.

It's one of the reasons that, once the court determined that the father was responsible to the tune of 15 years for providing the weapon in that one school shooting, he needed to be taken out back and shot.

If you want to shun them, you will have to remove them -- permanently, one way or the other.

2) Another reason you have to deal with them is a concept you don't want to admit to, Mr. Denninger, but that you believe there are too many of the defective, unworthy, (you'd believe unholy if you believed in a God, which you do not), etc.

That will offshoot into another post I have today to something you said about Dr. Fauci.

But the fact is that you are not getting the country you want without removing those you don't from this Earth.  Especially if you claim the "personal agency" central to most Libertarians -- one of the largest reasons that freedom and liberty are factually Satanic.

3) Remember:  Many of these people believe they will be immortalized in death, Tupac-style.  And many of these people actually learn violence on the inside.

Take this Riker's Island Style:  There is no rehabilitation in jail.  And, in fact, on the inside, you learn that violence IS the only law.

And then, if and when you get out, you learn why that's the case -- because that's the case on the outside as well.

I could go on, Mr. Denninger, if you like.  But the fact IS that many of these businesses ARE imposing the tax to keep the riff-raff out -- and, yet, at best, they lurk right outside the property line.

And many of them, as I said, have nothing to lose whatsoever.

Short of shooting them, what are you going to do?  Hell, about 6-8 months ago, I bodychecked one of those motherfuckers to the ground at a local drugstore.  Yeah, he vented the threats -- but was not around when I (armed with a full bottle of creme sherry to smash over his head if he tried!) came out of the store.

And a lot of people say to shut down welfare.  You do that, you might as well shoot them pre-emptively.  Because, to many extents, you've been paying for peace now since the rise of the Bonus Army and the creation of Social Security.

There's a reason that the entitlement program is called Social Security...

Sports To The Right, Part Four: Enemies of Baseball

(No, this was not originally scheduled.)

I hope you all have something to do next year, around the first of April and onward.

Because, after last night, there is now effectively zero chance (outside of an owner- or Trump-enforced season) that there will be any professional baseball of the regular stripe.

The fact that the Dodgers are getting two-time defending American League Cy Young award winner Tarik Skubal is bad enough.  What makes it even worse (and makes me wonder if the upcoming lockout is going to be just one season) is that they gave effectively nothing in return.

And that MLB is going to stand for this is indicative of some very ugly political realities...

MLB is MAGA.  There's a very real chance they've gotten through to the Dodger ownership and they're MAGA too -- and that now the brass of Major League Baseball is rigging a dynasty to kill the game as you knew it.

The Dodgers are now enemies of baseball.

So are Rob Manfred and the MLB leadership.

MAGA League Baseball wants to bleach itself, wherever possible.  MAGA League Baseball wants rid of LGBTQ support.  MAGA League Baseball wants there to be one elite team or a small group of elite teams -- which will create the same illusion of competition the NBA fails to purport.

And the Dodgers are now in full economic and political lockstep.

I do genuinely wonder how many people, last night and today, have finally given up on the National Pastime of Delusion.

The INFANT cries all the way home. WAH!!!!!

The FIFA plans for monetizing the World Cup toward the likes of Jared Kushner will not go forward.

Losing Europe would be too much.

Now, fire INFANTino.

You want to talk about common sense? Here you go...

Not a good week for the prediction markets.

Nevada has banned Kalshi and has put a bill on the docket to ban sports prediction markets entirely.  New York is suing Kalshi, because it believes that the prediction markets are using circumvention methods to allow sports gambling in manners and ages to which it is not allowed.

Well, DUH...

To my understanding, the prediction markets are, for example, legal to trade in in the state of California.  A state which rejected all sports gambling by 3-1 and 4-1 margins two years ago when the situation was placed on the ballot in various forms.

And guess which side Donald Trump is on...  Take a fucking guess -- in the face of over 20 such lawsuits now, Trump has come down on the side of the prediction markets.  Markets which have been seen as markedly conservative and large-scale crypto operations.

This is something which should be obvious to anyone with an IQ above that of kumquat.  The sports predictions markets are sports gambling.  Period, end, full fucking stop.  And many of them are done without the safeguards and controls that the states which do legalize it have -- and they also conduct themselves in states in which no such gambling is allowed in any stripe.

It is becoming obvious, with the passing days and weeks, that the expansion of sports gambling (or, many would say, any sports gambling at all) is/was a very bad idea.  The question is:  Can you unwind the situation without killing American sports (pro and college), and, if so, how?

I am still reminded of the fate of KGO in San Francisco.  After various incursions with the law, including it's most prominent host getting nailed for child porn (released in 2014, Bernie Ward is now a sex offender for life -- he apparently IS still alive), KGO was forced to pull the plug on it's news-talk format, and became, briefly, a competitor to all-news KCBS in San Francisco, just up the dial.

That didn't work out too well for them, and, a few months before the ballot initiatives on California sports gambling, KGO was converted to "The Spread", a sports-gambling based national radio station.

KGO no longer exists.  In fact, it has been completely flipped into it's conservative rival, KSFO, and the fascists now broadcast on KGO's former 810 AM.

Sounds like the boycott of the World Cup may be getting larger, and existential!

The plans to sell stakes in the World Cup to Trump-aligned parties isn't going over very well.

In fact, it might kill the entire process.  UEFA is ready to boycott.

And without UEFA, there is no World Cup.  Any sane thought of a top tier of the World Cup would have 13 European countries, Brazil, Argentina, and Morocco.  And that's IT.

If UEFA actually considers a boycott of the World Cup, that's it and full stop.

The only way you stop this, though, is to drum the Trump INFANTino out of the equation.

Otherwise, soccer is corrupt enough that he would go through with it without question.

Sports To The Right, Part Three: The WNBA is dead in five years, and walking back on No Hate ensures it.

A recent WNBA game in Seattle against the Indiana Fever was the last straw.

The brass of the WNBA (and probably of the NBA as well) is transphobic.

Two MAGA jackasses/whores went in support of Sophie Cunningham's transphobic bullshittery (forgetting everything I've said about the transphobic women's sports movement), and they were openly challenged and confronted by no less than the co-owner of the Seattle Storm Celeste Keaton.

Keaton has been banned from all home games by the league for the entire month of August.

If that doesn't tell you that the brass of the WNBA (which probably also espouses the brass of the NBA) is not only transphobic, but actively supports it's own demise (which see the goals of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, that women's sports are to be burlesque for sexual want and nothing else), I don't know what's going to.

Are there transgender players in the WNBA?  Almost certainly not, we'd have found out about them.

But the only reason the WNBA is allowed to exist comes from the fruit of the same tree:  Without "Woke", there is no WNBA.  There are no women's professional sports.

Hell, the biggest professional football league for women in this is an Arena knockoff called the Legends Football League.

Of course, that's rebranded.  What it actually IS, and used to be called, was the LINGERIE Football League.

Women have no place in this country, under women like Cuntingham, but sexual playthings, rape toys, and creation of White Rapist Male Incels.  And maybe someone needs to wake that bitch in Indiana up on that fact.

Ban me too, WNBA.  Because you're done if you don't get with the program.  You have any number of female players in your league (many of them Black, but not all) who bitches like this MAGA whore Cunningham would state were men.

Bank that!

Sports To The Right, Part Two: Caitlin Clark is about to be upstaged because she's not going to go far enough for her masters...

I could smell it the moment I saw her picture on ESPN's front page and about her being "unmissable".

Welcome to the new probable face of the WNBA, for however little long the league has left, right-wing bigoted MAGA cunt Sophie Cunningham, or, after her transphobic rant last week, I prefer to call her Cuntingham.

She has made no secret of being a loud-mouthed supposed "Christian" who hates transgenders and transgenderism.  And, in a sport where it has been made no secret that much of the recent corporate success of the sport can be traced to the fact that the largely Black and liberal sport of women's basketball in this country has been gravitated (by ESPN and other parties) around a WHITE woman from Iowa, MAGA finally has the athlete it can perfect what they started with Clark.

And Clark better understand this if she has an interest in remaining the center of women's basketball, at least in corporate, media, and political realities.

Cunningham has one thing Clark does not:  She IS good-looking enough to be the Great White MAGA Hope of (The End Of)Women's Sports.  That includes this year's Sports Illustrated annual jack-off fest.  That's rare among actual qualified women athletes (Riley Gaines, that means you're out, you cunt whore!).

Cunningham has made her presence felt on transgender athletics and misgenders them every chance she gets.

What the cunt doesn't get is that she doesn't have a job -- probably of ANY KIND -- in the America she supports.  The only reason you have a WNBA IS "woke".  And there is a massive poison pill of MAGA which has crystallized behind Caitlin Clark (and might well perfect itself behind Cunningham -- see my third post on this subject which will come tomorrow -- too late to do it tonight!).

But the edges are beginning to fray.  I am fully expecting the belief of Cunningham that the WNBA has a number of transgender players (even if it does not -- or there are no known ones)...

Sports To The Right, Part One: Another UFC jackass...

I don't think a lot of people are getting the extent to which sports themselves are gravitating towards the Right...

So here are three posts with three of today's/recent examples of such:

For the first, we go to the UFC and another "fighter" who decided to smack his bitch up:

Dateline, Nebraska:  Former UFC fighter Anthony Smith is facing three felonies in the state for wanting to run over his wife, an indictment this week charges.

Sounds like COVIDIOT-Shithead isn't doing it to just football teams...

Danica Patrick basically states that Aaron Rodgers is an emotionally-abusive twit -- saying "He leaves behind a trail of blood."

No.  Shit.  Sherlock.

It sounds like the World Cup boycott may be permanent...

The next step in INFANTino's plan to Trump-ize the World Cup is that he wants to sell a 20% stake in the tournament to corporate investors.

Trump ally/toadie Jared Kushner is involved.

Anyone who knows my stand on what comes with paying the bills understands the next thing I'm saying:  Within some degree of reason (else, the fraud that is the United States would've won this tournament), the investors will almost certainly have a say in who wins.

sigh

I think this is one of the reasons I've hard a dark fantasy of receiving an international letter from FIFA personally -- banning me from all relevant soccer events.

PS:  I will be shocked, if not stunned, if either the IOC or the LA Organizing Committee doesn't similarly ban me from the Los Angeles Games.

Two words:  They'd better.  (Or they'd better hope my situation holds that long -- I don't expect it to.)

Two related stories, both gambling:

USA Today:  DraftKings and FanDuel have already spent $72,000,000 on the midterm elections -- making gambling the third highest campaign contributor behind crypto and tech.

And, in the "no coincidences" file...

Fortune:  Gambling on sports (and this probably is only the legal handles, and does not include states which do allow Indian casinos to do sports-gambling (Wisconsin and Florida are two), nor the prediction markets which have muscled into sports-betting and can do so in states where sports-betting is illegal...) now is not only the largest entertainment method in the country at $166 billion, it outspends music, concerts, books, museums, and movies, by more than double -- combined!!  ($70 billion between the five, none above $20 billion)

The "No Shit Sherlock" File, Part Two: The Russians Are Coming...

Saw this a few days ago and am finally getting to posting it to the blog.

Putin's bitch gets his wish -- the Russians are allowed back in the Olympic Trump Transphobe Games.  Just in time for Los Angeles.

The "No Shit Sherlock" file, Part One... The Heritage Foundation lets it slip...

Now that the Supreme Court has gone full bigot and transgender athletes can be banned part and parcel, the Heritage Foundation lets it slip.

They openly WANT the end of women's and girls' sports -- stating that destroying Title IX is necessary to protect women's "fertility".

Just waiting, at that point, for the calls of execution of the childless cat ladies, the sterile, and those women too old to have children and never had one.

(Source:  Erin in the Morning)

Also note:  Cheerleading is fine.  They need to have women burlesque for the entertainment of high-testosterone boys and men who are willing to exploit fertility.

Super Bowl $eahawk$: Did Tom Brady throw Super Bowl LX?

I'm not going to attribute the Tweet for which I found, but go to the direct source instead.  The indirect source is completely shitlisted.

However, the Awful Announcing blog has made a charge that Tom Brady may well have thrown Super Bowl LX to the Seahawks.

Their source?  Seattle head coach Mike MacDonald -- on today's The Dan Patrick Show:

MacDonald, at the celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, acknowledges that someone with a "conflict of interest" aided MacDonald and the Seahawks in their preparations to defeat the Patriots last February.

That said, there are two MAJOR problems:

That would be a level of betrayal on a scale even beyond Brett Favre and the Packers or Calahan and the Raiders to aid Gruden and the Buccaneers.

The larger problem, though, appears to be Tom Brady's involvement with FOX Sports, and that leading to a possibility that the NFL themselves might've been involved in tampering through Brady passing information to the Seahawks.

And Brady's involvement as a part-owner of the Raiders -- the Raiders getting the Seahawks' offensive coordinator as their new head coach.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM......

Couple of June 30 notes:

• As of now, it appears Brendan Sorsby WILL get his NFL shot in 2027, but he'll have to sit out the entire 2026 season.  The NFL, NFLPA, and a third party came to an agreement that Sorsby will be treated as entering the 2027 Draft fully, including the Senior Bowl, Combine, etc.
• And then there's Wilson Contreras, who may be in line for one of the biggest on-field Discipline Blotter situations in recent MLB history.

Contreras was thrown out of Monday night's game for mocking the umpire by tapping his helmet.  Some might think it excessive, but the first-base umpire caught it and threw Contreras.

That was probably handled normally.

Tonight's won't be.

After being struck out by Cade Cavalli, Contreras heard what was believed to be "Sit down, boy!" from Cavalli.  Contreras advanced toward Cavalli, benches clear in the argument, Contreras throws his helmet at Cavalli, and Contreras loses his helmet and attempts to swipe Cavalli twice with it.

Four people were eventually ejected.

Now, a couple of things to keep in mind before I give you my verdict:

• This is back-to-back ejections.  Even managers, in my opinion, should be suspended a game under almost any circumstances for back-to-back ejections, before we get to anything else.  But at least that happens with respect to managers from time to time.
• He was suspended six games just ten months ago for a large-scale fight.

I say 6-7-8 games, appeal MAYBE down to five.  But then MLB makes it clear:  Another large-scale event like this he starts, and the bidding starts either side of a month.

[Sorsby] One more step, people...

Brendan Sorsby has been banned from the CFL today.

And Sorsby is probably headed to prison...

As a probable prelude to banning him, the NFL is NOT holding a 2026 Supplemental Draft.

The NFL does not believe Sorsby is accountable for his crimes.  It's basically certain he will be banned from the NFL.

The ball is now back in the Big XII's court.  Apparently, the Texas Tech program was probably told it would be thrown out of the conference, and, as of now, it appears he can't go back...

I don't see this going very far either... (The next chapter of the Sorsby Saga...)

Brendan Sorsby has filed for the Supplemental Draft of the NFL.

This is probably under threat of Texas A&M's material expulsion from the Big XII Conference, but we will see if this is the end of the story, or whether Commissioner Goodell will even allow him to take a practice field in the NFL before banning his ass.

Day 6 of the Trump Cup

• In a move surprising NO ONE, Donald Trump will be presenting the trophy to the winning team.
• Iran's team has been thrown out of the United States after it's first match, they'll be expected to train in one of the other host countries until being brought in for it's next match next week.  Fucking FIFA Peace Prize, am I right?
• We have a VAR official under investigation for a White Power symbol...  Like begets like, I guess.  Being as he is in the United States, one of the burgeoning White Right Power nations...  

I'm sure there's more, but I've been trying to avoid as much as I can about the Trump Cup...

Fuck off, UFC (Day 4)

This CAN'T have been an accident.

At Donald Trump's birthday party bloodsport UFC circle-jerk, Josh Hokit won his fight.

The fucker is an open transphobe who has openly proposed to get transgenders into his Octagon so he can kill them.

He also has made a career through two smaller organizations of an inflammatory conspiracy theory, and he just repeated it on the White House lawn tonight...

He believes Michele Obama is a man.

Fuck that bastard.  I say what needs to happen to the cunt-ass bitch, and I won't be around much longer.

Fuck off, Donald Trump (Day 3)

Dana White has said that tonight's christening of a probable execution chamber on the grounds of the White House should draw Super Bowl-level numbers.

No joke:  Here it is.

Donald Trump has said that the 80th birthday spectacular will be the most-viewed sporting event of all time.

During the World Cup.

Let that idiocy process.

This is going to be a LONG month. (Day 2)

Two things today:

1) Joe Rogan is noting the booing Donald Trump and the American flag are receiving in a number of sporting events, and is telling the Shithead to stay with similar Shitheads with the UFC.

Tomorrow is the debut of his possible White House execution chamber.

2) Yesterday, Mexican shirts all over downtown of my city.  This is going to be a long fucking month, isn't it?

May It Burn To The Ground, Day 1

It is of no wonder that the headline picture on ESPN's website on Mexico's group's opening day of the World Cup is Trump and FIFA tyrant bitch Infantino (yes, that is his name, and it's so appropriate) shaking hands at the draw last December.

This is not the world's cup.  This is Trump's.  And saying anything more on that vis-a-vis result may infringe on the boycott.

That said, I'm not necessarily going to do such a post every day of this tournament, but some thoughts to keep in mind at least periodically thereto:

Like a thought which resurfaced yesterday that the Pigfucker had when he said that the trilateral trade agreement between the three hosts of this World Cup (US, Mexico, Canada) might not be renewed.  You probably know his feelings on Mexico through his immigration scowling.

Here's a thought or two from the Asshole on Canada:  (from comments at the World Economic Forum four days after his reinstallation last year)

"We don't need them to make our cars. And they make a lot of them. We don't need their lumber, because we have our own forests. 

"We don't need their oil and gas. We have more than anybody." 

His eventual stated goal is to seize Canada, Mexico, and the entirety of what we now know as CONCACAF, from Greenland to Panama.

And it's his Cup.  Not yours, not the game's.

Enjoy your political farce, fuckers.

Oh yeah, Pigfucker has made his decision all right...

I make a point of leaving up all my errors.

That may be one of the worst-made posts in history.

Because we would like to congratulate the 2025-26 NBA Champion New York Knicks, who erased a TWENTY-NINE POINT DEFICIT to win Game 4.

Methinks Pigfucker has made the decision...

Mandani bans all spontaneous gatherings outside MSG for the balance of the Finals.

No Watch Parties for Game 4.

2 1/2 minutes to go in the 2nd quarter, Knicks are down 28 and the Spurs have already scored more than 70 points.

Methinks this series is over in six.  And the Spurs win it.

Because Donald wants it that way now.

The shit is officially hitting the fan...

Just a general round-robin of stories with one overreaching thread -- the plates are wobbling and about to fall off:

Karmelo Anthony (named after, obviously!!!) will spend 35 years in prison for the high-profile murder of a White track athlete in Texas.  They didn't wait to sentence him.

The NBA is being forced to condemn the actions of Knicks fans against Spurs fans in these Finals.  Monday's game was marred with several viral attacks on Spurs fans by Knicks fans on New York's streets.  (ESPN)  If the Spurs come back and win this series, you don't need to know the two reasons why.

After two days of meetings of concern among Big XII officials, Texas Tech is doubling down on the "gambling addict" angle with Brendan Sorsby and states he is going to play this season. It was largely immediately recognized, as an example, that the Debbie Gibson incident I had in 1998 was believed fueled by mental illness. I really wish people would understand not only the hypocrisy, but the danger, of Texas Tech going this route. Sorsby should be in prison for his gambling addiction and the obvious sports bribery which resulted from it. Additionally, this kind of an angle, if successful, renders the future policing of fair play impossible across American sports, with devastating results.

But this is nothing compared to the debacles on the soccer pitch:

The Trump Administration has made complete mincemeat of the World Cup.  At least two teams (Senegal and another) have detailed mass security efforts on American soil.

One of the assigned World Cup officials, a Qatari man, has been expelled from the World Cup, banned from the United States, and declared with terrorist ties.  Gee, you think that might not apply to MOST OF THE PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH FIFA, YOU ORANGE PIECE OF SHIT??   

Need I go into the Iran situation, especially with Trump bombing Iran just two days before the tournament is scheduled to begin?  Juicy, juicy terrorist targets all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico, by the way...    

Protests in Mexico appear ready to impact the fan experience in THAT host nation.

And, lastly, one on-the-pitch women's moment:  Last night, an edgy high-end international friendly between the United States and Brazil went VERY UNFRIENDLY in Brazil.  In the last 30 minutes of the match, the official sent off basically every coach for Brazil (four of them) and eventually sent off four players (including two after the whistle -- technically leaving Brazil with the minimum contingent to avoid an embarrassing abandonment of the match).  The United States won on a second-half own goal, 1-0.

Update on Sorsby...

 According to Maren Angus-Coombs on SI:

Once Brendan Sorsby is allowed to play, he is slated to receive FOUR MILLION DOLLARS in NIL funds.

Let.  That.  Process.

One article (Dan Wetzel at ESPN) also does note that at least two of the 40+ bets he made at Indiana were against the Hoosiers in some way, shape, or form.

And with the Pigfucker in attendance:

The Knicks lost their first game in about a month.

Series is now 2-1.

And now the question which will all but certainly decide the championship now:

Does he love James Dolan more, or does he hate New York for not kissing his mushroom dick?

Boos rained through any showing of his fat face.  Don't think that doesn't register to him.

San Antonio MAY be right back in this series.

BOOM! There it just went...

A known gambling addict and probable game-fixer with a major NCAA school has just won an injunction to play next season at Texas Tech.

In an unthinkably stupid decision, almost exclusively on the concept that gambling addiction is a mental illness and needs to be treated (which it is, BUT...), Brendan Sorsby has won an injunction barring the NCAA from banning him, even though he is known, at the very least, to have placed 40 bets while a freshman quarterback at Indiana for games Indiana played in the 2022 season.

If even ONE of those bets was against the Hoosiers, he should be in prison for sports bribery.

He should be as welcome on a football field as I should be at a Broadway theatre -- banned as a danger to the entire institution thereto.

Now, boo-hoo to TCU coach Sonny Dykes, who publicly asked how any sporting event can be trusted ever again.  Coach Dykes, you are about...  25 years, if not more, too late.  My position, unlike other sports conspiracy theorists, is that any game that can be fixed is.

But to give you an idea as to how dangerous this ruling is to the entire institution of American sports, there are going to be meetings among the other Big XII schools, starting tomorrow.

There is discussion of how to proceed, if to proceed, and even calls for boycotting all Texas Tech sports, if not throwing them out of the Big XII Conference part and parcel -- which I would have to say is about the only real option the other schools probably have not to play Sorsby and the TTU football team.

In fact, the University of Georgia Athletic Director has officially enacted such a boycott.  He will not allow the Bulldogs to play Texas Tech in ANY SPORT.  Nebraska has also boycotted.

But this decision basically opens the door wide open.  I said, last week, on a far lesser case, that there was question as to when the entire situation of college sports as we even know them now just blows up completely.

I think we just got it.  I do believe the concerns are valid -- as it is now basically impossible to enforce, short of FBI-level Federal arrest for sports bribery, athletes who wager on their own teams.

That man needs to be UNEMPLOYABLE in sports, at any level.  He probably needs to be in prison.  And now, barring either someone doing the right thing or deliberately injuring him (take your pick), he's going to be on the field this Fall.

Anyone who wants to believe this Knicks run is not complete Trump-led bullshit...

Some numbers for you:

2013-14, the first year after the last real playoff run for the Knicks before four out of the last five years:  37-45

2014-15:  17-65

2015-16:  32-50

2016-17:  31-51

2017-18:  29-53

2018-19:  17-65 again

2019-20:  21-45

2020-21 was their first playoff year since 2012-13:  41-31  Lost in the first round.

2021-22 was their last non-playoff year since:  37-45

2022-23:  47-53, lost in the Eastern Conference semis

2023-24:  50-32, lost in the Eastern Conference semis

2024-25:  51-31, so the same record roughly in the regular season.  But, with Trump in power, they at least made the Eastern Conference Finals.

And this year, they only went 53-29, didn't even win their division, and were the 3 seed in the East.

New York has lost two games the entire playoffs -- Games 2 and 3 of their first-round series with Atlanta.  They have now won 13 playoff games in a row, heading into the Trump Bowl at MSG tonight.

James Dolan is one of Trump's biggest supporters.  Remember where one of Trump's last real troll-job 2024 rallies was being held:  The same Madison Square Garden Trump enters tonight.

The 2026 Trump Cup Boycott Post

This is the official Super Fraud boycott post of the FIFA 2026 World Cup in North America.

The homophobia and transphobia and murderous nature of FIFA in past World Cup locations would be enough.

But this particular Cup, I call it the Trump Cup for a reason -- and there's a far larger story developing across sports which is going to fold into the boycott post:

The fact that President Pedophile Pigfucker Donald Trump is trying to insert himself into the national culture.

And recent stories indicate that I can come up with at least FIVE DIFFERENT SPORTS in which this is becoming apparent -- and I'm not counting the Trump Transphobe Games in Los Angeles in 2028 on this list:

The first is the recently completed "Enhanced Games" in Las Vegas, NV -- partially financed and supported by the Trump family, led by Cocaine Donald himself, Don Jr.

There are two major problems with what went down at the event:  The first is that only one world record was actually beaten by a steroided athlete:  The 50-meter butterfly.

But that leads directly into the second major problem:  If there's anything apparent, at least to date, that only one world record was actually bested at the event, it indicates the amount of rampant abuse almost certainly under the table across the gamut of the relevant sports (which, for these Games, included track, swimming, and weightlifting).

I have long believed, as one example, that Usain Bolt is barely human at all -- that he is in fact the first successful genetically perfected athlete.  For him to so completely dominate at 100 meters to the point that I actually believe his best time was actually done with him all but pulling up 10 meters before the finish before someone saw something absurd like 9.39 (instead of the 9.58 he actually ran) and started asking real questions -- remembering that the sprints contain some of the most chemically-abusing athletes in the sport...

But if the Enhanced Games, at least the first ones, showed anything, it showed almost certainly how much drugs are still married to even supposedly "legitimate" races.

The second is that Donald Trump is going to go to Madison Square Garden and support his friend James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks, in his shock (politically rigged???) berth to win an NBA Championship.  He goes to see Game 3 on Monday.  Knicks are up 2-0.

Fans are being told to prepare for a thousand or more security force at Madison Square Garden.

The third is Pigfucker's UFC Birthday, his UFC "Freedom 250" (*SNORK*) card on the lawn of the White House.

And we could add two things to that monstrosity right now, since he's not planning on taking down the cage afterward:

1) Execution chamber/Gladiator Games?  He's already said he wants trained MMA fighters to kill illegal immigrants for entertainment.

2) The ballroom is for the elite to have a protected place to watch and spend money for methods, in the style of The Purge?

The fourth, just down the figurative street, is Jaxson Dart and the introductions he's made of Trump, much to the chagrin of some of his team's fans.

Be real, people:  Many people are trying to position themselves in the political realities of sports and entertainment, with President Pigfucker being the centerpiece -- perhaps kingmaker.

And that gets to the fifth and final different sport of this, and his 2026 magnum opus:  The FIFA Peace Prize Donald Trump Cup, as known to the rest of the world as The 2026 Men's FIFA World Cup.

Fuck the World Cup.

Fuck FIFA.

Fuck Trump.

Etc. and so forth and so on.

If there's any way he can get himself named the champion of the 2026 Men's FIFA World Cup, he will do so.  There's obviously believability in both literal and figurative senses to this, but this could end up stinking far worse than the last two did!

So how much longer before college sports completely goes blammo with the legalized gambling?

Not this just-past year, but last year before it, Alabama State HAD won it's first NCAA Tournament game in men's basketball history.

That win will be revoked.

For $500 a person, apparently.

The FBI has contacted the NCAA and stated the 2024-25 team's top three scorers and a reserve were paid $2,000 to throw a game (result and spread) to Southern Mississippi.

How many more before we get the explosion, and we find out that national championships and the like were also thrown?

(Source:  ESPN)

Well, they couldn't put up with the possibility we might catch them openly...

No "Loudest Manure Chants" or anything like that.

Seven-year referees' CBA announced for the NFL today.

They can't take it over, so they're taking their (golf) ball and going home...

Bye, Saudis...  (And their supporters in the Trump Administration.  Pig.)

LIV Golf is no more at the end of 2026.

Yeah, it's the offseason, but this one at least goes into my wheelhouse a bit...

As the world sets up for the NFL circlejerk known as the Draft, I'm not posting on that today.

I'm posting on a rather obscure game-show incident which has made it to my feeds, it seems.

Ken Jennings, the current host of Jeopardy! and The Greatest of All Time to play it, was asked during a stop-down question-and-answer session whether he deliberately threw the final game of his initial 75-game appearance on the show.

The person who even purported to ask that question could well have been removed from the taping.

Not only is the question ridiculous, and not only does the question actually ask Jennings (who didn't) to admit to a federal crime if he did, but he's now the host of the damn show!

Which would then mean that the taping which was taking place would have to be terminated -- and probably all future tapings as well.

There are a lot of things that I do believe are rigged in this country, including a number of game shows of the last thirty years.

Jeopardy! is not one of them.

Sound Test: Thoughts on the Iran debacle...

I decided to test a new microphone setup.  I'm not going to say this is a GOOD sound test, but a sound test it is.  Kinda learning as I go along.

And this includes that I made one error I was unable to edit because I'm clumsy with sound editing.  What I meant to say on the "three ways out" was that we nuke somebody as the first option. 

Since I'm once again barred from embedding or posting on X for a week, I'll leave a link for you...

I don't think I ever saw magnets being alleged in basketball, but someone just has.

What do you think?

Most of the new rules proposals have been approved.

The only one of the five rules proposals listed below which was not approved today for next season was the "kickoff from the 50 advantage loophole" rule.

This, along with the fact that it now appears the league is preparing for a referee lockout, makes the League Office in New York City the officials of record for 2026-27. 

The NFL announces several proposals, and some of them have to do with the possibility we may be Fail Mary again...

Today was a big day for NFL rules proposals.  Some of them normal...

And some of them anticipating we're going back to the replacement refs who "blessed" the league with riggings like The Loudest Manure Chant and The Fail Mary (and the Bill Belichick assault of one of the replacement refs), which came 24 hours apart and forced the league to capitulate.

Here are at least some of the proposals:

1) Both teams can now declare an onside kick at any point in the game, regardless of score.

2) This probably ties into this rule:  A rule that, after an unsportsmanlike or other major foul on a score or try by the defense, that kicking team loses the incentive to kick the ball completely out of bounds if they kick off from the midfield line.  Any touchback from the 50 goes to the 20.

I'm going to have to have that one explained to me.  Reading the rule (Point 2 in the first section), where's the advantage?  

3) In another effort to create excitement and more kickoff returns with the new setup, the rules would be changed that one fewer receiving-team player must be on the line five yards from where the kicking team's non-kicker players are (the "restraining line").  In the next five yards of the receiving side of the field, the team can have one more player in that area, but cannot have more than two players in any area bounded by a sideline and the hashmark, or between the hashmarks.

They're still trying to save the kickoff, for obvious reasons.  I get what they are trying to do, but...   

4) This is going to be the biggest rule, and it sounds like it's going to require massive manpower watching each game from the New York offices.

They ARE officially proposing disqualification-level conduct and Player Safety fouls can be called from New York, starting next year.  The rules already allow direct communication between the Replay Official, the on-field officials, and New York on all rulings and applications of game rules.  (Which answers the question on that revoked touchdown during the season -- the rules actually DO allow direct communication with New York on situations such as that.)

The deadline is the next legal snap or kick.

... which will mean that each game will need not just one New York official at the NFL offices, but almost-certainly a team of officials on each and every game, dedicated to all such actions.   

5) This is the one that gets added if they lock out the regular referees and decide to Fail Mary the league again (the referees' CBA ends May 31):  The offsite officials effectively become the officials of the game, in concert with the on-field crew.

The rule, for only the 2026-27 season and only in the event of and for the duration of a referee lockout, allows for the New York officials to call:

• Roughing the passer
• Intentional grounding
• Changing a running into the kicker foul into a roughing the kicker foul, and the other way around 
• Any disqualification foul which would fall under the fourth rule change (remembering that these are independent rules proposals, and this one specifically dependent upon the referees' work-stoppage situation). 
• Nullification of mis-called fouls for: 
• Face masks
• Roughing the passer
• Intentional Grounding
• Horse-collar fouls
• Illegal contact
• A limited form of reversal of pass interference -- meaning that either the feet get tangled or neither player is playing the ball
• or specifically the fact that a penalty is declared on the field for disqualification.  (The yardage still applies, except...)
• After the two minute warning, they get even more power! 
• Basically any fifteen-yard penalty can now be fully reversed in the final two minutes from New York.

Oh shit.  If this isn't pressure to get that settled...  You think the Loudest Manure Chant was bad?  I give that about the three weeks the last set of problems had, and there will be a Bottlegate-level incident, if not WORSE, the first time you see New York decide a contest outright because of the replacement refs.  

 

Yeah, it's kinda that time...

Things slow down a bit for many (except for those who think every game they lose is rigged in Daily Fantasy)...

Here are a few things, though, to show I'm still here...  For now...

• What could probably deserve a longer form situation is NIL's impact on March Madness.  The only real upset of the tournament was High Point beating a badly overrated Wisconsin team in a 5-12 upset.  Two years in a row now, the 13-14-15 seeds went 0-12.  There is now at least a groundswell of a call to basically end the Madness part of it and push the one-bid conferences to the NIT entirely.
• As a result, we do have a new record perfect bracket, kinda.  For the first time in history (Center Road's -- which is still the record at 49 -- was in the Yahoo! game), ESPN actually got a perfect bracket into Day Four -- then Florida being upset blew it all up after 43 wins to start the tournament. 
• A darker story of some human interest:  The good news is that there is a quadruple amputee (hands and feet) in Maryland who has somehow gained the skill to play professional cornhole.
• The bad news is that, allegedly, he has also gained the skill to do something else:  Shoot a gun.  Dayton Webber is being charged with Murder 1, Murder 2, and other charges for shooting someone he had an argument with.

Do they have the guts to move the Trump Transphobe Games?

USA Today reports today that the World Anti-Drug Association wants to ban Donald Trump and several major US officials from the Trump Transphobe Games in Los Angeles.  (And possibly the Trump Cup this summer.)

Just before the Transphobe Winter Games, the Trump administration pulled all dues money from WADA with respect to the United States.

Though this battle between WADA and the US does encompass both parties, I think I can safely say that this is a defense of the drug-ladened athlete culture in the United States, up to and including Cocaine Jr.'s (Trump's son Donald Jr.) support of the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas later this year, where cash prizes will be awarded to mostly-drugged athletes.

(I have to say MOSTLY-drugged because there IS, actually, at least one drug-free swimmer who wants to try his luck against the steroid freaks.) 

We can only hope this is a first move to remove the Trump Transphobe Games from Los Angeles and the Trump Cup from the United States and Mexico (let Canada host the whole thing if it can!)... 

Why we can't just stick to sprots, Part II...

The rest of the political-registration survey from earlier was found by our friends at Close Call Sports and they published the findings on their Discord.  They finally also allowed me to find the link to the article with all of the information.

None of what at least the charts they publicized should be of any degree of surprise... 

A side chart on the NFL first...

Among NFL players, defensive and skill-position players tend to lean the most Democratic, while special teams players are the most Republican. Quarterbacks fall somewhere in between the two. pic.twitter.com/QcioxpdKDR

— VoteHub (@VoteHub) January 20, 2026

Defense usually scales Democratic (by well over 30 points), offense and special teams Republican.

And don't fall for VoteHub's trying to sugar-coat it:  Quarterbacks skew Republican by about 13 points.

But the bigger lack of surprise is in the general findings:

• One of the things I really felt would start happening is the abolition of the NBA and WNBA, in the favor of MAGA League Baseball and the NHL.
• MLB is the most Republican-skewing of the major sports, with over 53% of those found registered Republican, only 7.8% Democrat. 
• And I don't believe your rant at all, Firefox Pocket or SB Nation or whoever it was:  The NHL has been actively trying to position itself as The Winter Sport under Trump.
• The NHL has the smallest Democratic registration of all the sports at less then 6%.  Republican?  Almost 44%.
• I don't believe for a second that US MAGA celebration with the FBI director was either against what you believe in or a bad thing for the league.  It probably came at Bettman's direction!
• The reason I think the NBA and WNBA are doomed if Trump ever gets around to being the President they REALLY voted for?  NBA:  42.9% Democrat, 10% Republican.
• WNBA:  2.3% Republican.  13 teams in the WNBA, assume 15 roster spots (as in the NBA) per team.  That would mean, if a representative sample were found, precisely FOUR Republican players in the WNBA.
• Democrat?  67.5%.  Or about a hundred and forty.

 

Oh boy...

On a day where there are far more important things than sports, and I might want to see if I can finally finish a series of posts for another blog, aimed at these stupid MAGA fucks, comes this story from Los Angeles:

On Saturday, Chad Baker-Mazara, ostensibly a USC basketball player, was injured in a late-season game.  After playing about three minutes of the second half, it is now apparent that Baker-Mazara is, somehow and for some reason, done with the Trojan program.

Baker-Mazara was apparently talking with a woman for much of the second half of the game.  Baker-Mazara was one of the leading scorers on the USC team.

He was an NIL transfer from Auburn.  USC was apparently his fourth school.  According to current reports, he's 26.

Current trolling meme (at least that's what's being alleged) is that Baker-Mazara is actually 32 with four children. 

But let's separate fact from (apparent) fiction:  He dipped on the USC program (or the USC program dipped on him) at some point Saturday.  The reasons do not appear non-suspicious:  SOMETHING went down.

Regardless of whether this apparent satire/meme account who's gotten a hold of this is trolling or not, one thing is for absolute certain:  Someone found out SOMETHING.

Another sacrifice to football...

Rondale Moore.

Suicide by gun.

25.

Lost both knees the last 2-3 years to the fringes of the NFL. 

$uper Bowl $eahawk$: And there it is...

Ten days after the Seahawks were awarded Super Bowl LX, the Paul Allen Estate has begun the formal sale process.

And that is why they at least got in the game. 

Tanking in the NBA clouds a very prescient reality the NBA can't admit for it's financial future...

One of the largest topics in the recent NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles was the continuing losing battle the NBA is fighting with "tanking" -- the practice of teams deliberately resting players to ostensibly lose games to improve their position in the NBA Draft the following season.

Adam Silver has actually now gone as far as possibly considering revoking draft picks (and he's not going to be able to do anything unless they are first-round draft picks in that regard), because he knows the fines, including a $500,000 fine applied to the Utah Jazz -- calling their violations of player participation "conduct detrimental to the league".

So how much does Mark Cuban get fined for saying today the NBA should accept and embrace tanking, in the name of the fans? 

Why the NBA should embrace tanking -

The NBA has kate been misguided thinking that fans want to see their teams compete every night with a chance to win. It’s never been that way that way.

When I got into the nba, they thought they were in the basketball business. They…

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) February 17, 2026

Then you have a problem, Mr. Cuban.  A huge one.

The moment a fan can discern that every effort is not being made to win the game in progress, that fan is being financially and emotionally harmed by continuing to take part in the experience.  

Sometimes that is a night-to-night thing:  There are certainly games where almost every team is a substantial underdog or is seen that it is unlikely that they would win the given game.  This is understandable.

This is, however, a different process.  It is the deliberate understanding that the team is setting out to just survive the game, not get it's players injured for a game that it is not worth enough for them (micro or macro) to win.

At that point, why does a fan bother paying to see it?  And, writ larger, why do teams which continue to lose year after year after year be considered allowed to call themselves "professional" teams in the top-tier league?

Let's get some realities on "paper" here:

1) There are too many teams.

2) There are too many games.

3) There are too few players of sufficient "professional" caliber to support the number of teams or games that the league is bilking players, television partners, and corporate sponsors out of.

The fact is:  All four major professional leagues, in every idea except financial bottom line (which is why it won't be done) would do better either folding 25% of the teams or going promotion-relegation.

Make "professional", and top-tier professional at that, be earned.  You do it for the players -- why not force the same on the franchises?

The fact is (and it should've been demonstrated with the Foolish and Wretched One-Dimensional Ballhog, the National Bulls Broadcasting Company, and the National Bulls Association in the 1990's) that there aren't enough players to justify the existence of the number of professional teams in the top leagues in any of the major sports.

As a result, you are seeing pressures put on the NBA franchises to play top-flight players in the national televised games -- and it still doesn't help.

The fact is, there are just too many damn teams and no justification for a number of them to continue to exist.  And, in extreme cases, you get what happens in the NBA.

4) There is no legal ramification against a league fixing the games -- if Adam Silver really wants to prevent "tanking", he's going to have to state that it is an action outside of the league's allowed purview with respect to the manipulation of the contest's result, and punish accordingly.

5) It is of no secret that the games cost far too much money to attend, and that goes double when there's no assurance on the part of the two teams to actually provide a marketable contest.  

A fan can't recover for even a "tanked" game, just as he or she can't recover for a rigged one (only entitled to a seat and a result -- 2005 US Grand Prix lawsuit).  To actually provide the kind of fan experience Cuban wants, this MUST change, by any and all means necessary.

6) The games need to be believed to be on the level, because there's no way the tanking teams even believe the games are on the level -- much as many fans are basically certain the games are not.

If Adam Silver wants to prevent tanking, he has to take the following steps:

A) He has to basically admit the NBA (as the other professional sports have) has openly manipulated the games for their own benefit, financial and otherwise.  And that this process must stop.  The games must be officiated according to the rules and all efforts (including result reversal) must be on the table to ensure that what takes place on the court is the only factor which leads to the result.

B) He has to open the door to removal of teams.  This will probably never happen as organically or on a scale which needs to happen (see above), but the only way he's going to truly be able to prevent teams from tanking games is to put the nuclear option on the table -- once other means to improve fan experience and trust in the product are enacted.

In short, bad franchises need to die. 

C) The fact that teams with incompetent/lazy/greedy ownership can still advance through the ranks needs to be ended.  I'm about 70-80% toward getting rid of the NBA Draft entirely, and that can be a means in which bad franchises can rot and die.  At the barest of minimum, we need to get rid of the the worst team getting the best chance at the one or few relevant draft players. 

D) He needs to recognize that there will be games in which players need to be rested for their health and safety.