Musical Interlude: Where The Boys Are (1961)

 Connie Francis serenades our armed forces with "Where The Boys Are" on The Ed Sullivan Show.

As we noted yesterday, Connie passed away earlier this week at 87. Rest in peace.

Give up the facade, Mr. President. Stop hiding the truth

 Behind the bluster of a 79 year old grifter posing as the president is a scared little boy.

Donald Trump's inner child has erupted again after the Wall Street Journal, one of Rupert Murdoch's holdings, ran an article that brought up links between Trump and deceased, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a long time friend. To the shock and surprise of, well, no one, Trump is threatening a lawsuit against Murdoch, and this is despite the fact that there is way more evidence out there of Trump & Epstein at various functions than there were about Trump and E. Jean Carroll, whom Trump still denies ever knowing, even though he's on the hook for millions of dollars.

"WAAHHHH!!! I'm not a pedo!"

For someone who reportedly expressed interest in hypothetically dating his own daughter, well, that's a little hard to buy.

Trump, who writes (we think) a lot of his Truthless Social posts in the 3rd person, thinks he can rise above the fray. However, because his public image was destroyed long ago as his peculiar, ah, interests came to light, few outside of his brainwashed base will willingly buy his bull. The pictures & videos are out there, easily accessible. Trump can deny all he wants, but denial is a waste of time.

Now, this could've been a spin-off: Pop legends on Hollywood Squares (1979)

 The syndicated evening edition of Hollywood Squares was running on fumes as the 70's were nearing its end.

In 1979, before they changed the classic theme music, 8 music legends, plus Dick Clark (American Bandstand, Pyramid), are on the panel, with Clark occupying Paul Lynde's center square seat. The rest of the panel consists of Little Anthony, Freddy Cannon, Fabian, Patti Page, Connie Francis, Frankie Avalon, Martha Reeves, and Bobby Vee.

In memory of Connie Francis, 87, who passed away after an illness. No rating out of respect.

Classic TV: Was Sherlock Holmes actually real? (In Search Of..., 1978)

 From season 3 of the original In Search Of.......:

Series host Leonard Nimoy looks at the belief that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes, was based on a real person or persons. The episode also includes a brief bio of Doyle's own life.

Whomever is in charge of Wikipedia needs to correct one fact in the series history. The original series was syndicated, not a network program.

Rating: A.

Musical Interlude (I Just) Died in Your Arms (1986)

 Cutting Crew's debut single, "(I Just) Died in Your Arms", released in 1986, is getting some regular rotation on oldies channels, nearly 40 years after it climbed the charts.

Videos of Summer: Ray of Light (1998)

 Madonna raced up the charts in 1998 with a song that illustrates what a day would look & feel like at the speed of, well, a "Ray of Light"....

Sports this 'n' that

 I'll let Brian Tyler Cohen paint the word picture for our first entry:

Donald Trump and that self-serving, shiznit eating grin had no business at MetLife Stadium other than to bigfoot the moment for Chelsea. He had to have a photo op. Wife Melania was likely waiting to go home, and Dumb Donald overstayed his welcome, not even taking the hint when he was booed out of the joint. I'll bet anything at all he never played soccer, and if he claims he did, he'd, of course, be lying, since he would amount to little more than a waterboy on the pitch in his youth, anyway.

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The Boston Red Sox go into the All Star break on a 10 game winning streak, and suddenly, they're back in the thick of the AL East race.

But, that ain't all.

All Star Alex Bregman was a winner at the race track, too, on Sunday.

Bregman co-owns Governor Sam, who won the Quick Call stakes Sunday at Saratoga. We'll have more on this over at Tri-City SportsBeat. This marks the 2nd straight year a horse with ties to baseball has won at the Old Spa.

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Injuries are a reality in pro wrestling, just like everything else. Saturday's smorgasbord of action ended with two top stars ending up on the shelf.

During AEW's All In event in Arlington, Texas, TNT champion Adam Cole (Austin Jenkins) vacated the title due to injury. It would later be reported that Cole has suffered his 2nd major concussion since signing with AEW a couple of years ago. The last one kept him out of the ring for nearly a year, and, aware that this might end his career, Cole told the crowd that he wasn't sure what the future would hold. Can't blame him. He's also had foot problems since coming from NXT.

Later Saturday, WWE's Saturday Night's Main Event saw men's Money in The Bank winner Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez) suffer a knee injury during his match vs LA Knight (Shaun Rickert). Knight, on an audible, won the match after Rollins consulted with manager Paul Heyman and ref Jessika Carr. 

Rollins has had a history of knee & back issues, and even worked with a torn meniscus in his left knee during last year's Wrestlemania. The worst case scenario is that Rollins may have torn the ACL in his right knee, and could be gone until next April. He stayed in Atlanta to support his wife, Becky Lynch (Rebecca Quin-Lopez) during Evolution last night, and is set to meet with doctors in Birmingham, Alabama today.

A 2nd WWE talent definitely has a torn ACL, and will be out until next year. Aria Bennett, currently assigned to the Evolve division, blew out her knee in training recently. Prayers for speedy recoveries for all concerned.

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The starters for Tuesday's MLB All Star Game were announced Sunday. 

Detroit's Tarik Skubal, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, will oppose Pittsburgh's 2nd year phenom, Paul Skenes.

Predictably, some pitchers previously announced for the game have withdrawn due to having pitched on Saturday, including Jacob deGrom (Texas) and Max Fried (Yankees), the latter of whom left Saturday's game vs. the Cubs with a blister. Karma?