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Mobile phone carrier Verizon ran ads over the last two weekends during the NFL playoffs with their spokesperson offering an “either-or” scenario of the company’s attributes to his friend Darrell. When the spokesperson tells his buddy not to worry, that Verizon has both qualities, his pal says: “Why didn’t you just lead with that?” In our newsroom ...

Fifty Years. Half a century. A lifetime ago. Seems like yesterday. There is something about anniversaries, excluding weddings and births, that make us remember events we normally don't give that much thought to. When you reach way back and pull out a 50th anniversary, it brings your life into perspective. There is no year in memory that ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman Every winter, with the Road to the Kentucky Derby drawing plenty of attention from racing fans and handicappers alike, there tends to be more talk than usual about pedigrees—who's bred for dirt, who's bred for turf, who's bred to run 1 ¼ miles on the first Saturday in May, ...

As we chased down one of many angles of the back story of Gunmetal Gray following the 3-year-old’s dramatic last-to-first victory in Santa Anita Park’s Sham Stakes (G3), J.R. Boyd of Brick City Thoroughbreds near Ocala, Fla., gave props to bloodstock agent Steve Shahinian. When the same names pop up over and over throughout the years while being ...

Current Standings   Riskaverse 1229 Akita Girl 993 Bill Dawson 984.5 Leigh 957.75 Eric Rickard 934.75 latenite 923 RobbieJoe25 918 Rik Est 870.75 Anglachel 870.5 smitty37 861 Kathy Weightman 836.75 ...

There is only one shot to win the Kentucky Derby. Yes, the horses that are peaking on the first Saturday in May are ones you look for, and what all trainers strive for, but we always have to remember that luck – good and bad – also plays a big part in who gets the roses and who goes back to the barn a loser. When you think of hard-luck horses ...