Sports this 'n' that

 Spectrum Cable subscribers are saying, "Welcome back!", to the Disney family of networks (i.e. Disney Channel, ESPN, FX, National Geographic) as earlier this morning, Spectrum's parent company, Charter Communications, facing political pressure from Governor Hochul and her counterparts across the country, reached a new carriage deal with Disney.

The deal comes just hours before the season premiere of Monday Night Football, which is being simulcast tonight on ABC, year 2 of a new deal allowing MNF's original network back in the game, so to speak. Now, Bills & Jets fans will have the added options available to them after all.

Update, 3:10 pm: Not returning are familiar channels like Freeform, Nat Geo Wild, Disney XD, FXX, & FXM. Apparently, that was part of the compromise.

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The Yankees will be without rookie sensation Jasson Dominguez for the rest of the season after a suffered an injury to the UCL ligament in his elbow vs. Milwaukee over the weekend.

Uh-oh, Yanks fans are thinking. Not Tommy John Surgery.

I'm afraid so. The Bombers are now down another starter with Luis Severino out for the rest of the season as well, perhaps brought back too early from injury. Dominguez, an outfielder, had only been called up to make his big league debut recently.

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The New England Patriots decided to bend their own team rules to get Tom Brady into their Hall of Fame ASAP.

The team retired Brady's #12 jersey at halftime of Sunday's opener at home vs. Philadelphia.

That was the good news. The bad? New England choked away a chance to win the game late, enabling the Eagles to escape with a 25-20 win.

Back to Brady. Normally, the Patriots would've waited up to 4 years to induct Brady, but owner Robert Kraft couldn't wait that long. Figure he needed to sell extra tickets for the opener, and this was the best way to go about it.

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Teenager Coco Gauff won the US Open women's singles on Saturday, but there was an unexpected obstacle in Thursday's semi-final.

Some idiot representing the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion got on the court, and glued his feet to same, causing a delay. I wish these morons would find a better way to get their message out, since they are unwilling to go through proper channels. This clown saw how activists from Direct Action Everywhere pulled similar stunts last year, but they've faded into the woodwork, and so will Extinction Rebellion by this time next year.

As someone once said, as soon as they idiot-proof the world, another idiot comes along...............