Sports this 'n' that

 Washington Commanders defensive coach Jack Del Rio is under fire for some ill-timed and ill-phrased remarks, foolishly making a correlation between the January 6 committee hearings and riots that broke out after the murder of George Floyd two years ago.

The NAACP is calling for Del Rio to be fined and/or fired. Commanders head coach Ron Rivera opted to fine Del Rio, who'd apologized for his poor wordplay. Unfortunately, Tabloid Carlson whined about it, claiming Rivera, of all people, was a "racist idiot". No, Tabloid, look in the mirror before you say that next time.

Carlson, of course, had nothing better to do than stir up trouble, as usual, instead of devoting his Fox Shmooze garbage hour to actual news. Par for the course.

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Two of the oldest franchises in baseball met on Saturday in the Bronx, as the Yankees and Cubs met in the Fox game of the week. Chicago rookie Matt Swarmer was ambushed immediately as Aaron Judge led off the home 1st inning with a homer. Judge would add a second bomb later in the game, and Swarmer gave up six homers total in 5 innings (Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Rizzo, Gleyber Torres, and Jose Trevino had the others), as the Yanks shut down the Cubs, 8-0.

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Meanwhile, the Mets will finish their SoCal road trip tonight on ESPN after losing Saturday, 11-6, to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who got two homers from Mike Trout, and one each from Shohei Ohtani and Jared Walsh, the latter of whom went for the cycle, as the Mets' Eduardo Escobar did five nights earlier at San Diego.

Tonight's game was flexed into the Sunday Night Baseball slot by MLB, with the lure being that ex-Met Noah Syndergaard would face his former team. Acting Angels manager Phil Nevin decided on Friday that Syndergaard would not pitch as scheduled tonight, as they're giving him extra rest before he faces the Dodgers on Tuesday. Mets fans, of course, are angry, feeling gypped of the opportunity of seeing Syndergaard face his former team on national television.

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There won't be a Stanley Cup in New York, after the two-time defending champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning, eliminated the Rangers on Saturday night. The Lightning now will look for a 3-peat vs. Colorado in the finals, which begin later this week. There's always next year.