Alex Rodriguez hit his eight homerun. 653 more and he will pass Willie Mays for third most non-steroid-propelled homers, and earn a $6 million bonus from the Yankees. Tom Brady refused to turn over his cell phone and email records to the team investigating his possible involvement in deflating footballs below league standards, earning rapturous applause from Massachusetts fans who will surely turn their state’s electoral votes over to Hillary Clinton. Brady must calculate that the penalties the league has imposed are far less than those it would have devised had he not followed the Clinton route of non-disclosure. James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks and its WNBA sister team, the New York Liberty, appointed Isiah Thomas part owner and coach of the ladies’ team, notwithstanding a finding by a federal jury in 2007 that Thomas had harassed one of the Knicks’ female executives. In Chicago, the winner of the Little League World Series, Jackie Robinson West, was stripped of its title when league officials discovered it had falsified its boundary map in order to use players from outside the team’s South Side area. And proving that it is not the way you play the game but whether you win, two teams in the under-12 basketball tournament in Arizona tussled for the championship despite the fact that league officials were aware that both had players too old to be eligible. There are no reports of similar incidents from the bocce-ball league.
