As we get closer to the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, we have to wonder if this will be the final HUGE Olympics we will ever see? The issues of safety, security, lack of money, pollution and the Zika virus are well known. The stench of corruption and lack of return on investment has cities and […]

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The “Bathroom Law” that is in place in North Carolina has cost the state millions of dollars as businesses refuse to invest there, conventions get moved, and even Michael Jordan, who has taken a great deal of flak for not standing up for black issues in the past, has said that he is considering moving […]

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Eighteen months and only after the U.S. Court of Appeals refused to review the case, Tom Brady is finally dropping his appeal and accepting the 4-game suspension levied on him in the “Deflate-gate” affair. Brady Tweeted as much today, meaning that he will miss the first four games of the New England Patriots’ season. Brady, […]

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Yesterday, I wrote two pieces for evilopinion, but posted neither. One involved Dwayne Wade and the Bulls – it is being posted today. The other one concerned the murder of two black men by police. I hadn’t finished it, so I never posted it. Of course, no one could have guessed that 10 police officers […]

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As a former Andy Frain usher, there was nothing worse than rain delays. If it rains in football, they keep on playing. If the same thing happens in soccer, unless it’s a torrential downpour, they keep playing. In hockey and basketball, most of the games are indoors, so the weather is a moot point. But […]

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2016 has been a monster to too many cultural icons: Parliament/Funkadelic’s keyboardist supreme Bernie Worrell, Anton Yelchin, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner, Bowie, Prince. We lost Abe Vigoda and Alan Rickman Away from music, we of course had Muhammad Ali and Gordie Howe barely days apart. Well, this morning we lost two more sports […]

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I get it. I do. The world is changing and you can’t get off. The old are frightened and want to retain what’s left of a world that they understand. Never mind that that world was 1) racist; 2) sexist, and: 3) never existed except through the lens of dewy-eyed fake nostalgia. Moreover, no one […]

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