Pimlico Race Course announced the schedule for the May 20-21 Preakness weekend: a slate featuring 16 stakes – 10 graded – worth $3.8 million. Headlining that weekend, of course, is the 147th running of the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of America’s Triple Crown for 3-year-olds. The 1 […]
Yes, February seems to be rather early to discuss qualifying for November’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, but Japan’s Café Pharoah became the first horse to qualify for the Breeders’ Cup’s marquee race when he won Sunday’s February Stakes at Tokyo Racecourse. Café Pharoah’s defense of his 2021 February Stakes title in […]
Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca is leading the group of investors who acquired a 55 percent stake in La Dea, the Atalanta Bergamo parent company which owns 86 percent of the club. Antonio and Luca Percassi, the former owners of the team, will retain a 45 percent stake in La […]
Santa Anita Park features a mandatory payout in its 20-cent Rainbow Pick 6 Sunday and a salty stakes race could decide the fate of a pool expected to hit $5 million. With no single ticket hauling in the $664,316 Rainbow 6 pool Saturday, that amount carries over into Sunday. Based […]
The last time we saw Letruska, she was more human and less equine machine. The next time we’ll see the newly minted Eclipse Award winner is next Saturday at Gulfstream Park for the Grade 3 Royal Delta Stakes. The 6-year-old warmed up for her first race since the Nov. 6 […]
DAZN Group announced a $4.3 billion capital injection by billionaire investor Len Blavatnik’s firm. The British sports media company aims to expand into recreational betting, gaming and non-fungible tokens. The investment comes after Spain’s LaLiga sold its domestic broadcasting rights to Movistar and DAZN for $5.62 billion over five years. […]
Paris Saint-Germain celebrated a glamorous win over Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, but returned with their feet on the ground following a humiliating display in the Ligue 1 match against Nantes. PSG was 3-0 down at half-time, despite starting Messi, Mbappe and Neymar upfront. Nantes scored three […]
UEFA says the gesture comes as a “reward to the lifeblood of the game for their loyal support during the pandemic”. The announcement was made by UEFA President Aleksander ÄŒeferin this week. The fans of the participating teams at this year’s club competition finals will be offered a total of […]
Antonio Conte said he was “disturbed” by the coverage in the English media of an interview he gave in Italy. Tottenham has asked him to stop talking to Italian outlets as a consequence. During his talk with Sky Italia, Conte said that the Spurs squad “maybe, on paper, weakened” following […]
Kylian Mbappe runs out of contract at Paris Saint-Germain at the end of June. The 23-year-old is set to sign for Real Madrid as a free agent. Mbappe starred in the Champions League midweek in the clash opposing his current club and his future one. The attacker decided the match […]
You don’t usually see Wesley Ward holding court at Oaklawn Park. But the renowned trainer of younger horse carries an open secret that he hopes Happy Soul can broadcast to horseracing fans Saturday in the Listed Dixie Belle Stakes. That secret? Yes, Ward usually holds court at Keeneland or Royal […]
WIth a nod to Winston Churchill, Saturday’s Grade 2 Risen Star signals both the beginning of the end and the end of the Kentucky Derby trail’s beginning. The prelims are over and we’re now at the beginning of the win-and-you’re-in stretch of the Derby trail. That’s because the 1 1/8-mile […]
Niklas Edin and Bruce Mouat have both accomplished more than most curlers could dream of winning in a lifetime of tournaments and bonspiels. But both are still seeking their first Olympic gold medals, and the two skips will lead Sweden and Great Britain respectively in the gold medal game of […]
The Tampa Bay Bucs need to fill the void at quarterback after Tom Brady retired at the end of the season, but they could pull off a trade to acquire Russell Wilson from the Seattle Seahawks, or Deshaun Watson from the Houston Texans. The Bucs could stick with Kyle Trask, […]
The Green Bay Packers are doing everything possible to persuade the reigning MVP Aaron Rodgers to stick around Wisconsin for one more season instead of bouncing to the Denver Broncos or elsewhere, so they went out and hired his former quarterbacks coach, Tom Clements. The Packers convinced Clements to come […]
In the last game before the 2022 NBA All-Star Game, Luka Doncic from the Dallas Mavs put on a scoring clinic against the New Orleans Pelicans with 49 points, including seven 3-pointers. The Mavs jumped out to an 18-point lead in the first quarter thanks to 19 points from Doncic, […]
Lost in the Fair Grounds wash of Saturday’s Grade 2 Risen Star and Rachel Alexandra, two respectable preps for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks, respectively, is an intriguing Grade 3 race featuring several familiar names — the Mineshaft Stakes. Wondering what happened to Derby dark-horse O Besos? He’s here. […]
Running into a stiffening headwind of opposition, The Jockey Club rescinded its controversial rule limiting the number of mares bred per stallion Thursday. The rule limiting stallions born in 2020 or later to a maximum of 140 mares in a calendar year was adopted in May 2020. The Jockey Club […]
The New York Knicks were the big surprise team last season with Julius Randle providing an MVP-like performance, but this season it’s the same old Knicks, especially after they lost 13 out of their last 16 games including blowing a 28-point lead against the short-handed Brooklyn Nets. Has head coach […]
Israel Adesanya may not have dominated Robert Whittaker, but he did just enough to hold off the former champion and retain his middleweight title belt in the main event of UFC 271. Adesanya (22-1) scored a unanimous decision victory (48-47, 48-47, 49-46), much to the chagrin of many in attendance […]
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