I don’t usually bring my regular job here to evilopinion – it keeps me from getting into trouble, but if you haven’t discerned by now, I work for a bank as a credit trainer. I do enjoy my work – I get to be creative in a generally non-creative industry and I get to help […]

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As beautiful as figure skating is, and as grueling and demanding physically as it is, there is one major problem with the sport: IT IS SUBJECTIVE. One man’s great performance is another’s mediocre one. And the sport has been plagued over the years with proven and alleged impropriety, so it should be no surprise that […]

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I admit to having this naïve notion that 99.9% of the cheating at all levels of sport involves men. Women have a professional basketball league, but its life is precarious. There aren’t any million dollar female athletes outside of tennis and figure skating, right? But then I look at the big money women’s college programs […]

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The two men charged with severely beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in 2011, leaving him with brain damage, pleaded guilty to assault charges. Marvin Norwood, 30, and Louie Sanchez, 31, faced charges of mayhem, assault and battery, and inflicting great bodily injury in the beating of […]

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There was an old joke that there are two sports in the South: football and spring football. Passions run deep for college football, and I guess that’s ok until you realize the fact that old alums are gaining their pride on the backs of kids (not to mention the billions of dollars of revenue generated […]

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ESPN texted me and millions of other fans over the weekend to announce that Michael Sam, linebacker/defensive lineman from Missouri and SEC defensive player of the year had, in an interview, announced to the world that he was gay. All of the articles proclaimed, needlessly, that Sam would be the first openly gay athlete in […]

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Along with the story about Michael Sam, the other story that was instantly all over the sports world over the weekend involved Oklahoma State basketball player Marcus Smart. In a road game against Texas Tech, Smart tried to stop a fast break and fell into the out of bounds area. A Texas Tech booster names […]

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