The Racing Meridian is heading to Ireland for a one month gambling sojourn in the land of dark ale, bad beef and loud lunatics. I’ll post if I can stay sober for an hour or two…
Mats Seldom called me last night, pulsing with frenetic energy. “It’s over! I did it!” Yes, I replied, you certainly did. It was Seldom at his most magnificent, and all this delivered at the advanced age of thirty eight. His monumental achievement? He simply disappeared in the third period of every loss to the Chicago [...]
The Sporting News reports John Elway played his 1997 and 1998 Superbowl seasons with a completely torn biceps tendon. A quarterback is in more pain and discomfort with a partially torn tendon but not impacted when the tendon is completely severed. This explains why Brett Favre has not had an operation on his arm this [...]
It appeared that Pittsburgh Penguin Evengi Malkin had really turned a corner with his playoff performance against the Philadelphia Flyers. Malkin was sublime, generating scoring opportunities seemingly every time he was on the ice. After being roundly criticized for his playoff fade last year, it appeared Malkin was ready to assume a leadership role. Well, [...]
Virtually all the coverage I’ve read concerning the Kentucky Derby has missed the salient point. The track crew at Churchill’s, during the 64 minutes between the tenth and eleventh (the Derby) race, sealed the track, opened it, and sealed it again. The previous races offer clues as to the rail favouring nature of the surface. [...]
What a crazy, exhausting weekend. I’m still shook, and grappling with Pioneerofthe Nile’s loss. During this period, as a gambler, I’ll throttle back on my plays. Frames of references are distorted; you’re bitter, a tad antagonistic. None of these elements frame the preferred approach for cool evaluation of betting prospects. How long will it last? [...]
I’ve lived and died with Pioneer of the Nile since the start of the year. As the horses hit the quarter pole in the Kentucky Derby, I was breathless, seemingly on the verge of the score of a lifetime. Garret Gomez had made an error by moving the colt too soon, but with challengers looming [...]
The Meridian wrote earlier this week that we were fading I Want Revenge because the attention paid to the animal during Derby week would preclude trainer Jeff Mullins from applying his “magic” to the animal. We wrote that trainer Bob Baffert would watch Mullins like a hawk, keenly aware of his propensity to use “magic” [...]
The Philadelphia Daily News is reporting that centre Jeff Carter played with a separated shoulder during the Flyers first round series with the Pittsburgh Penguins. After a breakout season Carter was nonexistent during the postseason…the Boston Bruins have cast some kind of spell over Carolina Hurricane goalie Cam Ward. During the regular season Ward had [...]
