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By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable Here are a few articles that were in Sunday's Washington Post: A quarter pager on an area high school track meet;Another quarter page article on a local high school basketball game;Snippets on World Cup skiing, English Premier League soccer, and a hockey all-star game played in Russia ...

Courtesy of Teresa Genaro, Brooklyn Backstretch Last August, Jessica Chapel of Railbird and I were invited by Seth Merrow of Equidaily to appear on his show on Capital OTB to discuss how the Internet is affecting the relationship between racing and its fans.  Among the questions he asked:  ''Do you consider yourself ...

Courtesy of Ryan Patterson, GradedStakes.com      Finding an industry that has friendlier and more helpful people than horse racing would be quite a task. I can remember when I first gained interest in racing, and decided to start a blog. Mike Tynan from Curb My Enthusiasm was there to help me every step of the way, and ...

Andre Agassi is the perfect poster boy for image trumping reality.  He was the rock star of tennis from the moment he set foot on the court in 1986, but he didn't win his first Grand Slam event until 1992.  Anna Kournikova might be example #2 as she did the same thing in 1999, being the #1 searched item on Google, but only reaching ...

By Gene Kershner, EquiSpace It's puzzling to me. Back in September, Gathering the Wind had an excellent post titled with another word I had to look up (stochastics) regarding horse racing stewards and how they are simply out of the public eye. This being unlike the big four, wherein the referees or umpires must make a call in plain view ...

Teresa Genaro, Brooklyn Backstretch   I live in a city that takes unabashed glee in the evisceration of its physical history.  Tourist and natives alike are hard-pressed to discover any remnants of the Dutch and British settlements that settled Manhattan; little is left of the glory of the Gilded Age; and even the more recent bohemian ...