Welcome to 2024 Triple Crown Prospect Profiles, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the U.S. Classics trail, with the focus this week on last week’s Preakness Stakes and the upcoming 156th running of the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets June 8 at Saratoga Race Course. Read More
By STEPHEN WHYNO BALTIMORE — Even without a Triple Crown on the line, the upcoming Belmont Stakes is one of the most anticipated horse races in the sport’s history. That’s because it’s being run at Saratoga Race Course for the first time, part of a two-year hiatus in upstate New York while the Belmont’s longstanding home in […]
Even without a Triple Crown on the line, the upcoming Belmont Stakes is one of the most anticipated horse races in the sport’s history.
Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top Thoroughbred Poll. Week 17 of the 2024 Top 3-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll conducted by the NTRA covers racing performances through May 20, 2024. Seize the Grey, winner of the Preakness Stakes May 18 at Pimlico, enters the latest poll at No. 3. Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dan Ruby wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District.
MADISON — Trinity Lutheran held on for a 9-7 baseball win against Rising Sun Thursday in a Shawe Memorial Sectional game that was suspended because of rain and lightning on Wednesday. Continue reading at The Republic News.
Back in 2012, when I was really just getting started as a writer, I wrote a long piece for Grantland about my late father, my young son, and a history of Preakness Stakes past. It was about family, and the sport of horse racing, and the strange way sports can carry forward ghosts of the past well into the future. It was about life and death and all kinds of lofty ideas I rarely have the courage to write about anymore. At the time I wrote it, it was not all that hard to write. Trying to go back...
Josef Newgarden won a final lap duel with Pato O'Ward to become the first
Meralco Bolts secure a decisive 87-80 win against Barangay Ginebra, taking a 2-1 lead in the PBA semifinals. Maliksi and Newsome shine in Game 3 victory.
It has been a meteoric rise to stardom for 25-year-old jockey Jaime Torres. Read More
Mike Simpson wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Idaho's 2nd Congressional District.
Newcomer Abra finally displayed its potential with a 94-68 demolition of Manila SV Batang Sampaloc.