If Rachel Alexandra wins the Woodward on Saturday at Belmont Park, I wouldn’t be surprised if Jess Jackson calls it a year for his champion 3-year-old filly.
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Until a few weeks ago, southern Utah’s Newcastle Reservoir was little more to me than a name on a map or one of those brown signs you drive past on your way to somewhere else. Driving past the signs to Newcastle Reservoir is something I’d done for more years than I care to admit.
I don’t believe any college football program follows the weekly 20-hour limit of “football activities” to the second. I don’t believe any program follows the offseason limit of eight hours per week.
They should have known that when 9/11 struck terror into this nation and Nick Paris put on his official little police uniform to set up a lemonade stand with his older sister, there was something special about him.
It is Saratoga’s turn to offer a great array of graded stakes Saturday, headed by the $1 million Travers for 3-year-olds. Rachel Alexandra won’t be in it, but an argument can be made that the seven-horse Travers’ field is stronger than the Kentucky Derby’s.
Six weeks. Six months. Doesn’t matter. When entering into contract negotiations for securing your lot in life as a college football bowl game, specific facts always determine your fate.
Dove season opens Tuesday morning, but given what I haven’t seen, it could be a slow opener. And what I haven’t seen are doves.
The Northwest Girls Softball League held its fall draft the past few days, and more than 800 players were distributed among nearly 80 teams.
They issued one of those excessive heat warnings Friday, advising of temperatures that could reach 110 degrees.
It sounds awfully familiar, the news that the New York Racing Association is trying to arrange a rich stakes race at Belmont Park this fall using a corporate sponsor to boost the purse and featuring the two best horses in training.
Acting UNLV President Neal Smatresk, a selfless, intelligent, determined, logical sort of guy, will use all of those traits to search for a new athletic director now that Mike Hamrick is returning to the same position at Marshall, his alma mater.
There was a time when you had to travel as far north as Canada to hunt a wolf, but that changed Monday when the Idaho Game & Fish Commission established a harvest limit for the state’s first public wolf hunting season. That season is scheduled this fall and is open to nonresident hunters.
They had a news conference at Planet Hollywood on Tuesday to film an upcoming episode of “Shaq VS,” the new program in which NBA center Shaquille O’Neal spends his offseason challenging other professional athletes in their own sports. The opposition in this specific challenge is Oscar De La Hoya. It was announced beforehand that De La Hoya is “semi-retired,” meaning whoever wrote that line didn’t see the guy’s last fight. There is nothing semi about it, if he wants to live a long, healthy life. News conference is too strong a description for what occurred Tuesday. Far too official. It was more circus without elephants but plenty of clowns.
Fear is being replaced by hope for the recovery of sophomore Rebel linebacker Bryce Saldi following a skateboarding accident.
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