As the College World Series winds to a close tonight in Omaha, with the series between SEC rivals Vanderbilt and Mississippi State even at 1 game apiece, some GOPers in North Carolina are butt-hurt over the fact that the NCAA effectively removed the North Carolina State Wolfpack from the semi-finals due to COVID-19 issues that erupted last weekend.
The Wolfpack were left with 13 available players last Friday, and ended up losing to Vanderbilt, and, in the wee small ones on Saturday morning, players & coaches were told their run was over because the NCAA didn't want to take a chance on the situation worsening.
But, unfortunately, the GOPers of Tar Heel country aren't having it, and are demanding an apology from the NCAA. Good luck with that. You've got a better chance of Deputy Dawg getting write-in votes for governor in the next election than getting an apology just because your last chance for a national title went kaputski.
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It was news on Tuesday when Serena Williams was forced to retire in her first round match at Wimbledon due to an ankle injury.
The tournament traditionally runs into weather problems on a seemingly annual basis, and this is the first tournament since 2019. Other players have experienced issues on the grass courts, and one wonders why they don't think of putting tarpaulin on the courts, like they do in baseball & softball when it rains.
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The Yankees did something nice the other day.
Seems there was a woman who'd yearned to be a bat girl for the team as a youth 60 years ago, and was denied. So, according to Yahoo!, the Bombers let her suit up to make up for the slight. This might've been the brightest moment in an otherwise dreadful weekend after getting swept again by the Boston Red Sox.
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By now, you've heard about Seattle pitcher Hector Santiago, a 10 year journeyman, being the first one ejected for using banned substances, although he claims all he had was resin & sweat. Santiago is appealing a 10 game suspension, but what's the point of the appeal? Apparently, Santiago didn't get the memo that was issued a couple of weeks back. Everyone else is behaving like solid citizens so far, other than Washington's Max Scherzer and Santiago.
Seems to me certain media sharks are waiting for some big fish, like the Dodgers' Trevor Bauer or the Yankees' Gerrit Cole, to get nailed. Yeah, sure, like that'll happen.
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