If Kentucky ever approves casino gambling and Churchill gets a license, as it surely would, there would have to be a major attitude adjustment on the part of track management.
Entries from May 2009
Clueless Downs Does It Again
October 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Tags: Entertainment · Gambling · Horse Racing · Miscellaneous · Politics · Sports
Get Out The Hat Pin, Granny, It’s Time To Pick the BC
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments
It’s better to be lucky than good. So sometimes I bet jockeys or names. Or all the gray horses. Whatever. Serious handcappers sneer at such unscientific and unsophisticated methods.
Tags: Gambling · Horse Racing · Miscellaneous · Sports
The Agony and Ecstacy of Gambling on College Football
October 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
In other words, when UK left the field without getting to try the extra point, hundreds of thousands of dollars were changing hands.
Tags: Football · Gambling · Sports · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville
Could Woodson, Brohm Both Go to New York?
October 18th, 2007 · No Comments
The Heisman goes not to the game’s best player but the most glamorous one — the one who gets the most TV exposure, magazine covers, and high-profile chitchat on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
Tags: Football · Miscellaneous · Sports · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville
Alec Kessler Was Poster Boy for College Basketball
October 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment
His career pro stats – 5.2 points and 3.6 rebounds a game – weren’t nearly as impressive as his 3.9 GPA at Georgia, where he earned a degree in microbiology.
Tags: Basketball · Sports
If It Can Happen in Kentucky Football, It Can Happen in Kentucky Government
October 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment
If the polls prove correct and Beshear whips Fletcher in the Nov. 6 election, he will inheirit a mess much like the one Brooks found when he came to UK. His first job will be to clean up the ethical and moral cesspool that the Fletcherites created, denied, defended, and covered up.
Tags: Football · History · Miscellaneous · Politics · Sports · University of Kentucky
Let’s Shake Up Big-Time College Football
October 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Like the Marines storming Mount Sarabachi in World War II, the presidents need to take the athletics hill and plant the flag of academic integrity atop it.
Tags: Entertainment · Football · Miscellaneous · Sports
Bumpy Times for The Nation’s No. 1 Athletics Director
October 6th, 2007 · 20 Comments
Is the local sports media intimidated by the nation’s No. 1 athletics director? Are they afraid of getting on his wrong side for fear of retribution and/or ostracization? If so, what does that say about their responsibility to the public and their profession?
Tags: Basketball · Entertainment · Football · Journalism · Louisville Arena · Miscellaneous · Sports · University of Louisville