Sports this 'n' that

Call it buyers' remorse, NFL style.

The New England Patriots, after just one game, cut Antonio Brown on Friday, after more sexual misconduct allegations had been made public, plus reports that Brown allegedly bullied this latest accuser. Yahoo! is reporting that had Patriots owner Robert Kraft known about how much of a pervert Brown is off the field, he'd never have green-lit the signing of the second generation receiver two weeks ago.

Watch the value of Brown's football cards plunge into the abyss very quickly.
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Half the divisions in major league baseball have been clinched with 9 days left, counting today, in the regular season. Atlanta became the second National League team to clinch on Friday, winning their 2nd straight divisional crown. The Braves join the Yankees and the Dodgers in punching their tickets to the postseason, which begins in less than two weeks. The NL Central is still up for grabs, and will come down to the wire, along with at least one wild card berth, with three teams--St. Louis, Milwaukee, & Chicago---vying for one, possibly two spots.

Houston figures to clinch the AL West this weekend, and then, the AL Central figures to be settled soon after.

At least one wild card will go to the NL East, as Washington has the first wild card, but it's not clinched, and the Mets are within striking distance after beating Cincinnati, 8-1, on Friday. The Orange & Blue Crew will have two more in Cincinnati before returning home to play Miami & Atlanta next week. Bear in mind the Braves still have something to play for, and that's the top seed in the NL playoffs. If that's secured before next Friday, then they could rest their regulars for the final series vs. the Mets.
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Speaking of the Mets, Pete Alonso may have wrapped up Rookie of The Year honors by smashing his 50th home run at Cincinnati, becoming the second rookie in baseball history (Aaron Judge, 2017, being the other) to hit 50 homers in his rookie campaign. He's already obliterated Cody Bellinger's NL mark for rookies, and owns the Mets' team records for single-season homers.

Putting Alonso on the major league roster back in March turned out to be one of the smartest moves 1st year GM Brodie Van Wagenen ever made, but if I were Van Wagenen, I wouldn't even think about moving any of the core players, including pitcher Noah Syndergaard, who's having issues over his choice of catchers, inflamed by tabloid media scrutiny.
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Even though Smackdown doesn't officially move to Fox for another 13 days, the network is making sure viewers know about it in as many ways as possible.

One of those ways had Braun Strowman (real name: Adam Scherr) appearing in the Fox booth during a game on Thursday night, which led to some chirping from ESPN's Keith Olbermann, which, in turn, led to Olbermann getting roasted on social media by some of Strowman's WWE mates. Yo, Keith. It's 2019. Get over yourself.