Seems that Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor also owns a chicken farm, and supposedly has had more than 5 million chickens slaughtered because of avian flu. On Tuesday, one protester tried gluing her hand to the floor at Target Center. Pathetic.
Earlier today, in Memphis, another protester chained herself to one of the baskets at FedEx Forum.
Henery Hawk would not have approved, either.
Direct Action Everywhere, a grassroots group, claimed responsibility for the stunts. They don't want to wait for Taylor to close the deal on selling the Timberwolves to a group led by ESPN/Fox analyst Alex Rodriguez (they misspelled A-Rod's name on their press release). This was strictly done to call attention to their cause, but there are better ways to go about it.
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WWE superstar Liv Morgan is the latest to have someone impersonate her online to run a scam.
Morgan posted on Twitter than a man sold his home and lost everything because he fell for a scam from a fake Morgan who was begging for money. Now, we all know that wrestlers currently employed with WWE or AEW are making enough money where they don't need to be asking fans for financial help.
You can substitute the paint in the above picture with tears to get an idea of Morgan's feelings on the matter.
The people who run these scams simply don't want to work or even go about finding jobs and filling out applications. Sooner or later, however, the police will find them.
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As I'm writing, the new USFL has begun its season with a simulcast on Fox & NBC, the first such simulcast since the first Super Bowl in 1967. Fox's Curt Menefee & Joel Klatt are calling the game. Former Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett is being paired with NBC's Jac Collinsworth, the soundalike son of Cris Collinsworth. Fox college analyst Brock Huard is doing interviews. We don't know who will be calling tomorrow's games.
Klatt's regular partner on college football, Gus Johnson, is being loaned out to TNT to help with NBA playoff coverage.
Back to the USFL. All of the regular season games will be played in one "bubble", if you will, with two venues in Birmingham, Alabama. When the post-season starts in July after 10 weeks of regular season play, the games will shift to Canton, and the Hall of Fame. I get the "bubble" concept due to the pandemic, and the fact that some teams, like New Jersey & Tampa Bay, would have a hard time drawing fans for home games because they have other teams playing in other sports (i.e. the Mets, Yankees, Rays). The revived league is also experimenting with extra point options, something the XFL tried two years ago, with extra points being worth anywhere from 1-3 points, and a shootout after overtime, not quite dissimilar to hockey.
This will bear watching, but how many will watch?
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