Think of it this way: Scott Speed used to be a passenger in a rocket, taking a seat and knowing he had no control over how the powerful piece of machinery under his feet would react after launch.
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The e-mails have helped. So have the telephone calls from family members and close friends and ordinary acquaintances and others Delphine Lakes never has met. Someone called from Canada. She didn’t know the person. It meant everything.
It must be nice to be able to tell somebody $7.7 million is not enough to buy my horse.
As you read this, the second week of the dove season is about half over. Let’s hope the last couple of days have been far more productive for hunters than the previous week. Opening day was a mixed bag, with some hunters bagging limits and others firing nary a shot.
Effort isn’t an issue for those again trying to make the annual PGA Tour stop here more fashionable event than forgotten weekend.
SALT LAKE CITY — When trying to surface from the ocean floor, you can’t expect a clean and swift journey. Things will be choppy in places. Nothing comes easy for those at the bottom.
The local race book scene is changing rapidly, and horseplayers might need a scorecard to keep up.
During September and October, one of rural Nevada’s busiest roads is the Harrison Pass Road in Elko County. This relatively short road links Ruby Valley on the east side of the Ruby Mountains with Huntington Valley on the west, and during the fall months it is a major thoroughfare for hunters seeking to fill their big-game tags in Area 10.
Frank Marrero didn’t want it to end on that bedroom floor.
There is no such thing as a routine victory when you have lost eight straight football games dating to last season and 29 of your last 35 dating to 2005. There is no such thing as grinding out wins for UNLV.
The biggest upgrade I’ve seen at Del Mar this year, and something that has not received any notoriety, is the much-improved jockey colony.