Horse Who Can Win

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California Chrome is back, and he has once again shown us why he is the most popular horse in the world. At the San Diego Handicap, Chrome defeated Dortmund by half of a length, a major contender in the 2015 Triple Crown race. It was a welcome return to racing for the horse, and many people paid attention to this race solely because he was entered. It also brought many sports and horse bettors out to the track to get in on the action. The San Diego Handicap is a 1 1/16th mile race, which is just shorter than many of the Triple Crown races.Read More →

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Clemson is still the unanimous choice as number one in the NCAA, but the teams below them, especially the Alabama Crimson Tide, are starting to show big signs of improvement. The regular season in college football has come to an end for some teams already, and that means that the bowl selection process is about to begin. As of right now, it looks like the Clemson Tigers will be going up against Alabama in the Bowl Championship, but this is still to be finalized. Other contenders for the BCS include Oklahoma and Iowa. As the bowl season gets rolling, having a good look at theRead More →

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American Pharoah, the first horse in almost 40 years to win thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown, ended his career in victory at the Breeders’ Cup by winning the Classic. Down the final straightaway, AP separated himself from the field and ended up finishing 6 ½ lengths ahead of the place finisher, Effinex. This was the last race of an 11 race career. American Pharoah won nine of those races, including three of the toughest races a horse can run consecutively: the Triple Crown. Because these races are so much longer than any other race a three year old has run before at this point in theirRead More →

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The Kansas City Royals have become the first MLB team this year to clinch a division title. It’s the first time since 1985 that they’ve won a title. The American League team surprised a lot of people last year when they went to the World Series, and this year they were just expected to dominate in the AL Central. They have the best record by far in the American League, and only a handful of National League teams have better records. This is surprising at a deeper level though, because the Royals don’t really have any superstars on their team. There are no great powerRead More →

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The NFL season hasn’t even started, and there’s already speculation about who will be MVP this season. One of the big names that’s being talked about is Andrew Luck. Luck had a great season last year, but was still young enough to make several mistakes. This year, he has a couple seasons under his belt and expectations are higher than ever. Luck led the NFL with 20+ yard passes that led to touchdowns with 12 last year, which is a promising statistic. It indicates that he is accurate in clutch situations, and this can quite easily lead to big numbers in the future. Expectations doRead More →

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The appeal that Tom Brady made to the NFL after his deflate-gate suspension has been made public. The entire 172 page transcript is available online, and a lot of it is not easily understood, but it can be boiled down to a few main points. The first is that the balls used in the AFC Championship game last year would have naturally deflated because of moving from hot to cold temperatures. This would have happened pretty quickly once the balls were brought out on the field. There is reason to believe that the balls that the Patriots used were treated differently in some way thanRead More →

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The Major League Baseball trade deadline is less than ten days away, and there’s a lot of waiting going on. Many teams are delaying simply because they want to see what other teams will do. Moving too soon can betray their hand and give other teams an advantage during the trading frenzy that is about to ensue. Some teams, however, have more importance when it comes to being watched than others. The Detroit Tigers, according to some analysts, are the key to the entire trade deadline, and there’s no clear idea of what they are planning on doing, if anything.Read More →

Finish in Style

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Brett Favre was recently inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and had his number retired in front of a big audience at Lambeau Field. Fans cheered him as he was officially canonized into the team’s long and storied history. The famous Number 4 will now be hanging from the rafters, so to speak. This is an interesting contrast to the last time Favre was here five years ago. At that point, Favre was playing for the Minnesota Vikings and was heavily booed by the crowd at his former home field. It made sense at the time, considering the rivalry between the PackersRead More →

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The fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao shattered all sorts of records for pay per view numbers. It was far and away the most expensive boxing match ever, and the number of people that paid to watch it was stupendous. More than 4.4 million people bought the match, and you can be assured that more than this number actually watched it, as people often pool together for viewing parties when there’s a big PPV fight like this. Mayweather has had a six fight contract with Showtime, and the first five of those fights were handled as PPV matches just because that’s how most majorRead More →

Pick some winners

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The NFL season doesn’t start for several more weeks, but fantasy football players are already starting to get their teams outlined and ready for the draft. If you are a fantasy football fan, you probably already have a good idea of who you want to draft onto your team, but there are many ways of approaching this, and having a few different sources for ideas will be to your benefit. The time tested advice is that players hit their peak in their late 20s. This is when, athletically, a player is strongest and at their most explosive. You tend to find positions where older playersRead More →