When Ken McPeek won his first horse race as a trainer, I was there. McPeek had invited me and a mutual friend to River Downs because his horse Final Destroyer had a big shot.
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It’s the biggest game of the college football season — at least until a bigger one comes along later in the season. But the hyped rematch between Alabama and Johnny Football dominated talk during the offseason, and the showdown finally arrives Saturday.
When it goes bad, it tends to get worse before it gets better. Eli Manning’s first pass was a screen thrown directly to a defensive lineman and intercepted. That’s how the season started for the New York Giants.
10 handicappers pick their best five selections from today’s games.
During the 1990s, Florida was known for former coach Steve Spurrier’s dynamic offenses. His 12-year tenure netted six Southeastern Conference championships and one national title.
Matt and Kelly are back, along with Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller, to give you their top football picks for the weekend.
Week 1 picks from Chuck Edel and Ken Thomson of Pregame.com and Erin Rynning and Ted Sevransky of Sportsmemo.com.
The newest Las Vegas show opens at noon today at the Golden Nugget, where 16 professional handicappers will duel over the next 15 weeks for $25,000.
South Point has become the fourth company to offer a mobile betting app after launching its service Tuesday at five Nevada locations, including four in Las Vegas.
Preseason hype is often a lot of hot air. But anything that has been said or written to pump up UCLA and its sophomore quarterback, Brett Hundley, was not an error.
After 10 underclassmen left for the NFL and eight players from the defense got drafted, few publications put LSU in the preseason top 10. But it says here the demise of the Tigers is greatly exaggerated.
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