Your “A Small Man Trying To Embiggen Himself” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

• Crybaby-in-chief President Trump “disinvited” the Eagles from the White House and instead will hold a perfectly cromulent “Celebration of America, which will certainly embiggen the smallest man.
  • Fewer than 10 players were expected to show up, and none of them black.
  • On the heels of the disinvitation, American Pravda FOX News ran pictures of Zack Ertz praying pre-game & pre-anthem and used those to slander the team as a whole.
    • They later apologized for the “error”, and wiped their social media clean.

Update: In a statement provided to @usatodaysports, Fox News apologizes for using footage of Eagles players praying in its segment. pic.twitter.com/mGyir1f5dU

— Tom Schad (@Tom_Schad) June 5, 2018

• Jets rookie Chris Herndon was charged with DWI after a crash Saturday.
  • He hit a 76-year-old man driving a Toyota FJ-40 Land Cruiser that was transporting a vintage automobile.
  • The roadside breathalyzer confirm he was over the limit, and he was arrested & taken into custody.
  • This was the Jets’ sixth player arrest in the past 13 months, and the third for drunken driving.
    • Linebacker Dylan Donahue has two pending DWI cases.

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  Andrew Luck’s dad Oliver, who works for the NCAA and oversaw the organization’s regulatory functions, including eligibility requirements and academic affairs, and the eligibility center, will become the XFL’s new commissioner and CEO.

  • He will have to move from Indianapolis to the XFL / WWE headquarters in Connecticuit.
  • Oliver Luck was a former Houston Oilers QB, a former WVU QB & athletic director, and previously served as the president of NFL Europe
    • He also served as the chief executive officer of the Houston Sports Authority, which helped bring the Texans to Houston as an NFL expansion team in 2002.

• The Denver Post has a story about the fight over who gets to run the Broncos.
  • It reads like an English claim to succession from the 1400s:
    • A regent was appointed to oversee the franchise until the ownership issue was settled.
    • A child of the first marriage says she’s ready to take control.
    • A child of the second marriage is the preferred candidate, but she is too young at present.

Finally, it happened after I’d put the post to bed, but it’s never too late to remember the greats. RIP Dwight Clark.

PFT has a pretty good account of a SF Chronicle story where Dwight Clark, who had a sponsorship deal with Kodak, tried to help Everson Walls get in on the payday for the shot of “The Catch”.

• Because Walls wasn’t signed on with Kodak, he had to sue to get his money.
  • Thanks to damages laws, he was able to claim more than Clark & Montana combined.

Deadspin has been running their World Cup Previews, and while I held off judgment until now, because I had yet to see a point of comparison, having read their Saudi Arabia one and compared it to mine, I feel absolutely comfortable in saying that DFO rocked the soccer predicción world in every conceivable way.

Well done, lads!

Tonight’s sports:

• Jeu de hockey
  • 2018 Calder Cup Finals: Marlies vs. Stars – Game 3 – 8:00PM | TSN2
• MLB:
  • Yankees at Blue Jays – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
  • Marlins at Cardinals – 8:00PM | FS1
• WWE:
  • Smackdown – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360

NBA returns tomorrow; the NHL Thursday. AFTER THAT COMES THE DARKNESS!