Sports this 'n' that

 So the Jests decided to cut bait on past-his-prime Aaron Rodgers the other day. Here's a piece of advice for Rodgers. Just retire. Brett Favre made the same mistake, lingering too long, and his life's been ruined by off-field scandals.

I pity the team that signs Rodgers this season.

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We're now learning that after the 2025 season, Major League Baseball will be looking for a new broadcast home, as they're severing their ties with ESPN over lack of non-game coverage. This decision will push them closer to Fox and/or TNT/TBS. The belief from this desk is that while Fox revived the concept of the Saturday game of the week, they're not going to give up their Sunday night block, so Sunday Night Baseball will move to TNT/TBS, or, if ESPN offers some sort of compromise, it'll stay right where it is.

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Not a fan of ESPN's Pro Golf League, which has PGA players playing indoors in one of those virtual courses like they have in some places around the country. With pickleball also on the ESPN menu, why not bring back Wide World of Sports?

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After all the hype surrounding the NHL's Four Nations Face-Off, which ended last night with Canada winning an overtime thriller over Team USA, the league may actually have come up with a better solution to replacing the fading concept of an all-star game.

Edmonton star Connor McDavid scored the game winner.

Unfortunately for the USA, there was this, well, kiss of death before the game. The team got a telephone pep talk from president Donald Trump before the game, and Trump, like he did before the Super Bowl nearly 2 weeks ago, predicted a victory.

Make it 0-2 for Trump. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trolled Trump after the game. Trump has been making noises about annexing Canada, if but to distract the people of America from his underhanded handling of various US agencies in order to enrich his fellow wealthy types, as well as his new best friend, South African emigre Elon Musk.

But, you know what you're getting today from the oldest baby in America after last night's game.

"WAAAHHHHHHH!"

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The talent agreement forged between TNA Wrestling and WWE's NXT division has produced some compelling television over the last year.

The latest chapter began on Tuesday when TNA X champion Moose (Quinn Ojinnaka), a 2 time TNA World champion, showed up on NXT in advance of TNA taking over NXT's former home at Full Sail University for last night's Impact broadcast, and confronting NXT champion Oba Femi, an Alabama alumnus.

Last night, Femi returned the favor, confronting Moose and his faction, The System. Overseeing it all was TNA Director of Authority (read: GM) Santino Marella (Anthony Carelli) and NXT's "liason to TNA", Arianna Grace (Bianca Carelli). The real-life father & daughter also appeared together at NXT's Vengeance Day PLE last Saturday, and Marella, a former US, Intercontinental, & tag team champion during his time in WWE, was at his best, mangling wrestlers' names, and shushing Arianna's attempts to correct him. The Norm Crosby of wrestling was in fine form.

Moose will defend the X title on the next NXT broadcast against Heritage Cup champ Lexis King (Brian Pillman, Jr.) in the latter's hometown of Cincinnati.