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...

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.