Your “What – Nothing’s On Again?! Where’s “The Longest Day”?” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

• Proving you can move a team but the misery still follows, Chargers rookie Mike Williams is out of remaining OTAs with a herniated disc.
• Jamaal Charles hopes to be the #1 back in Denver in 2017.
  • “When I left Kansas City, I was still at the top. It was just the injury. You can’t really control injuries.”
• Stealing an obscure story more meant for Crimebeat!, former Browns WR Reggie Rucker is having his NFL pension deducted by $400/month to repay his charity for money he “borrowed” to pay off gambling debts.
  • His attorney blamed Rucker’s actions on a gambling addiction caused by football-related brain injuries.
    • Prosecutors scoffed at that argument.
    • Any portion of the NFL brain injury settlement he receives will be used to compensate the charity, his attorney said.
• Jack Del Rio loves him some Beastmode.

https://twitter.com/coachdelrio/status/871895836917026816

Finally, dealing with the fallout from Dr. Bundchen’s revelations, Bill Belichick reinforced that the Patriots comply with all League injury reporting guidelines.

• “We file our reports in compliance with the league guidelines,” Belichick reiterated Tuesday. grumble grumble “Players don’t come to me and I don’t treat them for injuries. That’s not really my job. That’s what we have medical staff for.”

Canada 150:

June 6, 1944 – The Canadians storming of Juno Beach during the Normandy landings.

Juno Beach was about eight kilometres long, encompassing four seaside villages. The beach was divided into two sectors designated “Mike” and “Nan,” stormed by the 7th Canadian Brigade and the 8th Canadian Brigade respectively. The 9th Canadian Brigade came ashore two and a half hours later as backup.

The German defences at Juno consisted of Widerstandnester (resistance nests) at the seaside villages of Courseulles-sur-Mer, Bernières-sur-Mer and St. Aubin-sur-Mer. These were fortified with concrete and surrounded by barbed wire and landmines. There were also about 20 medium and large gun batteries nearby. Most of the German soldiers the Canadians encountered were either over age 35 or under 18. With just 400 such men, they were well outnumbered by the first wave of Canadians.

Veterans Affairs Canada estimates that 15,000 Canadians from all three branches (Army, Navy and Air Force) landed on D-Day. About one man in 19 who landed on Juno Beach became a casualty (killed, wounded or captured). Among the first assault waves that morning the ratio was closer to one in two. By day’s end 340 Canadians had been killed, 574 wounded and 47 captured. According to the Army’s official historian these numbers were about half what planners had feared.

In total, about 100,000 Canadians played a role in the D-Day invasion and subsequent Normandy campaign. About 10,000 were sailors.

^{Sources: CBC, Veterans Affairs, Canadian War Museum,}

Tonight’s sports: I guess LeBron doesn’t work Tuesdays

• MLB:
  • Red Sox at Yankees – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
  • Blue Jays at A’s – 10:00Pm | Sportsnet
•  WNBA:
  • Washington at Dallas – 8:00PM | ESPN2
• WWE:
  • SmackDown – 8:00PM | USA/ Sportsnet360
• Golf:
  • World Long Drive Tour Golf: Clash in the Canyon – 8:00PM | GOLF
• International Rugby: from Auckland
  • British/Irish Lions vs Blues – Wed 3:35AM | TSN2
  • here’s the entire tour; US Commentists may have to learn Russian to find a broadcast.

Today, I have cribbed from the domains of Crimebeat! and Historical Badasses. Plagiarism? AM I BACK IN UNIVERSITY? WHERE ARE MY DRINKING PANTS?!