But first, two sports matters: About that  NBA gambling problem , won't say much, except to just be aware of further developments. The World Series games begin today.  They open with the Los Angeles Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays at 8PM EDT.   Not to worry about the change in daylight savings time, for this will occur Sunday, November 2 at 2AM, where most states will set their clock back to 1AM so some of you can get one hour more sleep. All games will be on Fox, FS1 and Fox Deportes, also streaming on Fubo, Fox One, DirecTV, Sling, You Tube and Hulu....if you subscribe to them. First team to win 4 games will become the champion. Starting pitchers in Game 1 will be Blake Snell for the Dodgers and Trey Vesavage for the Blue Jays, a rookie. Here are the details of other games. Game 2:   Saturday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m. ET in Toronto. Game 3:   Monday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. ET in Los Angeles. Game 4:   Tuesday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m. ET in Los Angeles. Game 5 (if necessary): ...

But first, a thing or two about Opening Day for most of Major League Baseball.  I yesterday showed you how I was celebrating, spending essentially all of 9AM to 7PM, Hawaii Time, watching the games. That was brunch, and for the remainder of the day I had a variety of peanuts and chips with Johnny Walker Blue Label on rocks and a gin martini.  I also went down for a short dinner and had two glasses of Burgandy. Baseball is baseball, teams win and lose, inexplicably, making opening day mostly meaningless.  However, the  Los Angeles had quite a pre-game ceremony : Their ownership group, including Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King, raised the Dodger championship flag behind center field. In the audience was 92-year old Phil Brooks, a retired physician who was attending his 60th consecutive Dodger opening.  Accompanying him was his son Stan, only his 40th consecutive opener. Ice Cube, who has become a Dodger celebrity, drove up to pass on the World Series Championsh...