The Schloss-Blog is tracking a lot of movement, not all of it good, from the basketball broadcast booth to NFL rosters to the lies that persistently come out of the White House.
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Yet another woman hits the glass ceiling - and the glass ceiling wins.
Doris Burke is out as the lead analyst on the ABC/ESPN coverage of NBA basketball, the first female to call the NBA Finals on national TV.
Why? No one knows or at least no one is saying - ESPN's top executives could have vetoed the move, but declined. She'll now step back into the network 'B" team, alongside talented Dave Pasch, who doubles as the Arizona Cardinals football play-by-play voice.
She'll be replaced on Team '1' by Tim Legler, who I love as an analyst. In studio, that is, because when he's on with Scott Van Pelt on Sports Center, they are gold. No one shows how a play transitions into a tactic and then from a tactic into a strategy like "Legs."
But that's why he's so good in studio or perhaps as one of the pre-game/post-game/halftime analysts on the network's lead games and at the NBA Finals.
There's not enough time to do that in-game, sitting alongside Hall-of-Fame play-by-play guy Mike Breen and talented all-star-turned-analyst Richard Jefferson. The latter was so in support of Doris though that he wore a "My Favorite Broadcaster is Doris Burke" T-shirt when he showed up at the NCAA World Series of Softball Finals in OKC while the ABC crew was there doing the Finals.
To be sure, ABC/ESPN can do what it wants with its analysts. But "Legs" and Doris do the same thing in such different contexts. For the one, its' such deep-thought analysis. And for the other, it's such quick-thought strategizing that they should not be flip-flopped.
But they were. A blow against women in basketball. A blow against women.
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Speaking of blows against women, Trump decided to strike one, saying he was firing Fed Board of Governors member Lisa Cook.
Cook is saying she can only be fired for cause, or, in other words, malfeasance on the job. The DOJ lawyers agruing for Trump are saying the president can do whatever he wants (surprise!). Trump is arguing that Cook, who he says has claimed multiple residences as her primary housing, has committed said malfeasance.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb will get to decide whether the firing "violates the Federal Reserve Act, which states that the president can only remove a member of the central bank's Board of Governors "for cause," according to CBS News.
Even if he loses, Trump's DOJ lawyers say they'll appeal.
Good for them. Trump wants her out so he can appoint a replacement who will give him a majority on the Board of Governors and a chance to get interest rates lowered to where he wants them, inflation be damned.
And it probably will be.
Trump's a dick
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Green Bay has a new No. 11 and Dallas had two new Nos. 1 in draft picks as a result, plus a Pro Bowl defensive lineman, who's no No. 11.
Locked in a war of words, alleged verbal agreements and claims of trust and can't-be-trusted, Micah Parsons is instead bringing his All-Pro sack talents to Green Bay, where he'll make life miserable for J.J. McCarthy, Jared Goff and Caleb Williams, respectively.
Wonder what Ben Johnson has to say about Green Bay now.
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You can't scream "Fire," in a crowded theater but apparently you can scream "ICE," at least at the scene of a wildfire, you can.
That's what's happening in Washington state, where wildfire sites are being visited by ICE officers, or whoever those masked guys are. They are apparently detaining firefighters who, they claim, are illegals.
At least two on the frontlines of the Bear Gulch Fire were detained and held on Wednesday after U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived mid-morning and ordered workers trying to quell Washington’s Bear Gulch blaze to line up for ID checks, according to The Seattle Times, per The Daily Beast.
Meanwhile, someone was firing into a church service celebrating the opening of the school year in Minnesota.
Where was a blended ICE team on that?
Stephen Miller has set a daily quota, and a weekly and a monthly quota as well, to wipe immigrants, illegal or not, out of the United States.
Looks like there is a fire in Washington after all.
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As predictced here, Joni Ernst is not running for reelection to the U.S. Senate from Iowa. But don't worry: Ms. "We're all going to die," as she and the Republican colleagues' healthcare plans are known, will likely get a Cabinet-level appointment when Tulsi Gabbard or Kari Lake gets fired.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Heidi Gardner.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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