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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Those who have been reading this blog for awhile (and thanks to all of you) know that I have been hard on quarterback Tim Tebow. The former Florida Heisman winner has been out of football for almost two seasons now. Tebow has turned his fame into broadcasts gigs for the new SEC Network and soon, […]

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I have to take a moment to mark the death of two notable people. First, we mourn the loss of Richard Kiel, the 7-foot, 2-inch actor best known for playing Jaws in two of Roger Moore’s James Bond movies. Here was a gigantic man, certainly no matinee idol, who made the best of his situation […]

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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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