The Week In Sports 6/30
Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranidive announced this week that the team would officially begin mining Ethereum. The Kings are easing their way into the crypto-space, with plans to launch their own coin in the near future - Bibcoin.
Amazon made headlines by announcing its plans to start direct-to-consumer prescription plans. The move by the Seattle tech-giant has customers enthused about avoiding the middle man when receiving their medication. No one was more excited than a certain second baseman for the Mariners.
In one of the stranger stories of the baseball season, the Tigers fired pitching coach Chris Bosio after making racially insensitive comments toward a team employee. A tiger losing his job for calling a human a monkey sounds a lot like the plot of a low-budget Jungle Book sequel.
With rumors swirling that LeBron James is leaving the Cavaliers, Stephen A Smith is reporting that Dan Gilbert would encourage the move as it would give him back his team. Luckily for the NBA, they have an excellent history of things going well when a Gilbert wants what they feel is theirs.
The NFL announced that Jameis Winston will be suspended 3 games for groping a female Uber driver. Winston will not appeal, and will forfeit 3 games this season. Given his track record, no one is surprised that Winston's arm movements are costing him games.