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.