A brief one while we’re talking about the Patriots. A few weeks ago, when the Patriots hosted the Chiefs, star QB Patrick Mahomes’ girlfriend and brother had to be moved to a different place in Gillette Stadium because of the taunting of the fans nearby. Brittany Matthews, Mahomes’ high school sweetheart tweeted her discomfort, including […]

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I don’t pretend to be a reporter here on Evilopinion; I don’t usually do interviews; however, I had an opportunity to speak with someone who intrigued me. I was at the Youngest Indignant Daughter’s Gymnastics class and there was a gentleman sitting in front of me with a Mitch Trubisky jersey. It was a couple […]

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In the winter, my harbinger of spring is the pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. When it’s coldest, I think of the number of days to this marker. However, I probably should think about the Baseball Hall of Fame announcements. They come a couple of weeks before the camps open. For 2020, the announcement […]

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With all of the impeachment talk and the headlines of the past three years concerning Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election (and surety that they will do it again next year), one must wonder what is on Vladimir Putin’s mind? The collapse of the Soviet Union wasn’t because some country interfered, it collapsed under […]

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There is probably no more testosterone-fueled, Cro-magnon, somewhat racist group of people than “old-school” hockey coaches and fans. Like everything else in life, life is moving fast, too fast for those who thing that things should stay the same. First of course was Don Cherry, who, after skirting the line of permissible speech on his […]

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I have mentioned here before a quote from a great, underappreciated B-movie from 1983 called “Blue thunder.” Roy Scheider plays a helicopter pilot for the LAPD when the powers that be want to bring in military gear (much as has already been done for real in many big cities). Anyway, Scheider is in trouble and […]

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As it turned out Colin Kaepernick was right: the sudden workout, the original plan to have no press, extra secrecy as to which teams would be sending representatives, and even having Commissioner Roger Goodell visibly absent, replacing him with the rapper Jay-Z was all a sham. They could report that Kaepernick was a bust, couldn’t […]

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