If your NFL team is already under water (sigh), cheer up and focus on the NBA. Trading starts today, so jump on the appropriate Slack channel. Draft day is Wednesday, the preseason starts December 11, and the 72-game season starts December 22.

We turned the corner on Halloween and Daylight Savings Time, meaning most of 2020 is behind us. In another day, all the TV and online ads will go back to selling us pickup trucks and beer and Christmas.

Baseball fans, of at least two teams, are happy now that the World Series is set. Congrats to the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays (although for 2020, we really need the "Devil" Rays name back).

Now well into October, 2020 continues to be the annoying canker sore that never heals. Tropical storms Delta and Gamma are winding themselves up to hurricane levels in the already-battered Gulf. Someone please adjust the spanning tree algorithm and send them to the wildfires in California.

We’ve learned many new things this year, including that we can have too many hurricanes for the list of approved names. What happens after that? We start on the Greek alphabet. Hurricane Beta is hitting Texas and Louisiana this evening.

It’s Labor Day in America this Monday, which usually means the last party of the summer and kids get ready to go back to school. Thanks to 2020, neither may happen.