Sports Columns
The second half of the racing season kicks off Sunday with Big Brown returning in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.
Think back to the first time you went hunting or fishing. Can you remember who took you? Was it your father, grandfather, an uncle or a friend of the family?
This is what will bring boxing fans back, what will raise the interest of those who have adopted mixed martial arts as their favorite sport of blood and anguish.
UNLV basketball coach Lon Kruger left at halftime, probably to go enjoy a more interesting game at a local high school. Courtside fans Warren Buffett and Bill Gates also bailed early, because when bank accounts worth a combined $120 billion begin plunging like Katie Couric’s ratings, heading to the nickel slots seems a better idea than sitting through routs like the one Team USA pinned on Canada on Friday.
Here’s a thought: What if USA Basketball doesn’t win gold in China?
Two Pick 6 players betting Del Mar hit the mother lode Saturday, cashing the two winning tickets worth $356,909 apiece.
They held a news conference at the MGM Grand on Wednesday to promote the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito welterweight championship fight, but it was impossible not to be distracted by the 147-pound elephant in the ballroom. Bob Arum made sure of it. I’m guessing the top dog at Top Rank wasn’t a CIA operative in another life.