Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Sports this 'n' that

 Congratulations to the Denver Nuggets, who won their first NBA title Monday, defeating Miami in 5 games.

The NHL Stanley Cup Finals could end tonight if Las Vegas closes out Florida, also in 5 games.
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Six months after returning home from Russia, Phoenix Mercury star Britney Griner ran into some difficulty at an airport in Dallas over the weekend due to a YouTube scuzz looking to create a problem.

Alex Stein reportedly approached Griner, bent on asking some questions about her detention in Russia between February-December 2022, while she was with her team. Security cut off Stein, who left the airport in the company of a female companion.


Stein was looking for trouble, then ran off to avoid accountability. Real journalists don't do that, and I don't think Stein knows anything about proper journalism or took classes. He's just a punk, and----wait for it----a Weasel. If he tries again confronting Griner the way he did on Saturday, he should be hauled off to jail. Period.
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The New York Racing Association (NYRA) is looking at moving the 2025 Belmont Stakes to Saratoga while Belmont undergoes renovations for the first time in nearly 60 years. Something tells me that's just the start, and if they do go to Saratoga, they'll expand the usual summer meet beyond its usual mid-July-to-Labor Day schedule, and start in June. They're also talking about winterizing the track at Belmont, just as they did at Aqueduct years ago.
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XFL co-owner Dwayne Johnson is reporting that the league lost upwards of $60 million this season, but that the snakebitten league would return in 2024, which would mark the first time the XFL would play in back-to-back seasons.

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