One week after the second Ray Rice video of him knocking his then fiancée unconscious, Minnesota Vikings’ running back Adrian Peterson was indicted for beating his 4-year-old son with a switch. When I first heard about it, I posted on Facebook that every African-American parent over 60 years of age should be indicted also. What […]

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The biggest story in sports while I was away involved the continuing revelations in the Ray Rice case. Rice was in trouble for knocking his then fiancée unconscious and dragging her from an elevator in the spring. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell gave Rice a two game suspension, half of the suspension for use of marijuana. […]

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One of the major problems with being a sports fan in the 21st Century is knowing who is on PEDs and who isn’t. And with public apologies for bad behavior passed out like Flintstones vitamins at a summer camp, are any of them genuine? One guy who one wouldn’t have thought about is former New […]

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This has been an eventful week for rookie linebacker Michael Sam, the first openly gay player in the NFL. First, ESPN showed dubious judgment by inquiring and broadcasting concerning when Sam showers. Like he would be “tempted” will all of those men in the shower. (Not like he didn’t last season at the University of […]

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With the tragedy that is Ferguson, Missouri and the reality of violence, crime and mass incarceration of African-American men in this country, the story of the Jackie Robinson West Little League team has been one of the true “feel good” stories of the summer. I have only mentioned them once in passing in an earlier […]

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The Mante Te’o story with the fictitious girlfriend remains the strangest story I think I have written on here on evilopinion, my earlier sites, or the television shows I have contributed to over the past 24 years. At first, I thought that I had seen the second this week. It started out as yet another […]

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Nine-year-old Antonio Smith got angry yesterday at his mother because she wouldn’t give him a cupcake and went outside of his house on 73rd Street on the South Side of Chicago. It was the middle of the afternoon, but by 5:13 PM, Antonio, who liked to dance, was pronounced dead, shot five times in his […]

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