A former colleague had this adage by which he would define our profession.
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Less than a month ago, Mine That Bird and Rachel Alexandra could have walked into the Churchill Downs paddock drawing barely a glance. Now they are horse racing’s two biggest celebrities.
Matt Snodgrass is most alive on a golf course, after seven brain tumors and all the radiation and chemotherapy that goes with them. He turns 21 on May 29, when for a second year he will host a golf tournament to benefit his condition and other young people fighting cancer.
The sun hadn’t been up long, but there already were a couple of anglers on the water when Dallin, my eldest son, and I pulled into the parking lot. At the launch ramp, two fly-fishermen busied themselves with preparing their float tubes and other gear for a day on Haymeadow Reservoir, one of three popular fishing waters at the Kirch Wildlife Management Area — Sunnyside to old-timers.
They run. They strut. They play awfully hard.
This time of year arrives and Buddy Gouldsmith takes a stroll across hot coals, a tradition becoming more and more hazardous with UNLV’s latest losing baseball season.
Five seconds. Maybe.
There are two chances of seeing a bid for the Triple Crown this year: slim and none. No one I know picked Mine That Bird to win the Kentucky Derby, and only a couple of redboarders after the race insist they liked him.
You can sugarcoat certain things in life. How you answer that question from your significant other about her weight. Cheering your child’s few perfect notes among all the missed ones at the piano recital. Faking confidence when telling your employees about the company’s financial stability.
Damn unknown. It always feeds our worst fears. It has this way of appearing at the most unfair times. Kayla Griffith knows of it, and it frightens her.
It would be easier if you could just go George Costanza on a hitter and throw the opposite of what you believe to be the best pitch. But baseball doesn’t work that way.
His father won an AFC Championship with the New England Patriots and yet he has seen the commemorative ring twice. It might be just once. No one thinks about it all that much.
Glen Gulutzan is in his sixth season as Wranglers coach and has directed the hockey team to a second consecutive conference final. He produced three 100-point seasons between 2005 and 2007, the first ECHL team to accomplish such a feat.
The plot for the second jewel of the Triple Crown just got thicker with the private purchase of Kentucky Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra by Jess Jackson of Stonestreet Stables.