The Schloss-Blog is looking this week at the Chicago Blackhawks giving up (rebuilding?), the Chicago mayor's office changing hands and Jalen Carter running (speeding) away.
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Jalen Carter, Georgia's all-everything defensive lineman who is a supposed game-changer in the NFL, sped away from an accident scene in which two people were killed after celebrating that his Bulldogs won the national title.
Why depart the scene?
To not get caught at the scene? Because he was legally drunk? And may have caused the accident? That killed two people, including a teammate and a team employee!
Teams, pundits, are questioning his judgment, his character, his decision-making and his thought process.
But not his talent level. This is so bad that he will likely drop from possibly the No. 1 pick to No. 5.
In the NFL, it's not how many died at the scene of your accident, it's not were you over the legal limit for alcohol consumption while driving and it's not whether all that got you so judgment-impaired that you perhaps just might have caused that accident that killed two people.
Including a teammate.
How's that gonna' fly in your pro locker room?
His future pro teammates will say aw, shucks, just one poor decision, he's really a good guy and he'll help us. They won't mean it, but that's what they'll say.
His GM and coaches are saying, shut up and play.
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Farhad Manjoo, a terrific NY Times editorial opinion writer, says that the South Carolina jury that came back in three hours with a guilty plea for Alex Murdaugh in the murder trial of his wife and son came back too quickly (3 hours)
I'm thinking, Farhad, you jumped on the jury too quickly for acting so quickly.
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"Dilbert" author Scott Adams had his popular business-spoofing cartoon dropped by more than 200 newspapers after a racist rant in which he called Blacks "a hate group" and advised us white folk to "get away from them."
Just think of all the places you'd have been dropped from if you'd gone on YouTube, like Adams did, and said the same things.
This just in: he'll be the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention next year.
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@MarkFinchem, @SonnyBorelli of Arizona, put up your evidence of election fraud or STFU.
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Jayson Tatum scores a record 55 in the joke-with-no-defense NBA All-Star Game and is all over ESPN, being asked about it.
Donovan Mitchell of Cleveland scores 71 and leads SportsCenter.
Damian Lillard scores 71 for Portland and nobody is talking about him, as he may just be the best guard in the NBA.
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Do you still, use, the Oxford, comma?
Why, - I, mean, why,?
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In Tennessee, the state legislature is banning drag shows and suggesting "hanging from a tree" as a death-penalty option.
Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene is right - we need two Americas, Red and Blue. One with President DeSantis.
The other with President Clinton.
Hillary.
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Lori Lightfoot will soon be out as Mayor of Chicago.
When you piss off the police and the teachers, you're not going to win in Chicago.
And when you let the Bears move to Arlington Heights, well, same thing.
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Saw Eric Johnson perform the other night at Madison Center for the Arts. He has won seven Grammy Awards for best instrumental arrangements and performances.
After seeing him perform those songs with his band, you know why. What a performance!
Thanks for the tickets, Andy.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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