Yesterday, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun announced his retirement from baseball. It wasn’t exactly a surprise – Braun only played 39 games last year while dealing with a back issue, limiting him to 8 home runs, 26 RBIs and a career low .233 batting average. The Brewers declined a $15 million mutual option over this […]

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I have been busy with stuff recently, so I haven’t been posting as frequently, but, even though this happened almost 1½ weeks ago, I could not let this go without comment, Long time readers know of my utter contempt for Big Ten football referees. They make more bad calls than any conference’s officials in the […]

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For the past 22 years, there has been a Williams sister, or Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal playing, and more often than not, winning at the tennis Grand Slam tournaments. Federer and Nadal have 20 singles titles apiece, Serena Williams has 23 and sister Venus has 7. Of course, the sisters have another 14 Grand […]

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Sorry to have stepped away from evilopinion for a bit, but I’m back now. Lots of stuff happened during my hiatus: Cubs trade stars; Olympics actually occur and seem to not been a super-spreader event; Simone Biles shines the light on mental health and athletics. I figured enough people were writing on these subjects while […]

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The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics have begun even though the Opening Ceremonies are not until tomorrow. That’s not to say that the controversy has taken any time off. The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team has already had its 46 match loss less streak ended by Sweden 3-0. Then the Olympics have fired the creative director for […]

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No one could have foreseen how fast the changes to college football would come when athletes became able to market themselves, but it is obvious that the changes are going to humongous. Already the change is apparent… Guard Mikey Williams won’t be eligible for the NBA draft until 2024 and still has nearly two years […]

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Blackhawks fans have seen the core of the three Stanley Cup Champions, and each farewell has been bittersweet and sad. Some went by trade because of salary cap issues like Andrew Ladd, Brandon Saad, and Nick Leddy; some have retired – Marion Hossa, Brett Seabrook, and Corey Crawford who was traded then retired. No parting […]

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