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United they (don’t) stand in track brouhaha
Just don’t get it:
At a time when the horse racing industry needs a united front — or at least needs to project one — what with the possibility of slots at racetracks on the line, it seems like an odd time for Arlington to be stirring the pot with a lawsuit against the IRB.
Maybe it’s just me.
In with the ... young:
The Cubs new director of baseball operations, Scott Harris, is 25 years old.
Let that marinate for a while.
Fine and dandy:
The $21,000 fine levied against Jared Allen for his season-ending hit on Lance Louis is well, fine, but I still don’t get people claiming the hit was a “football” play.
It was if he didn’t leave his feet to make it. But he did.
Picture that:
How nice was it to see a photo of an actual hockey game in this week’s Sports Illustrated?
And how nice was it that it was a shot of the Chicago Wolves taken by ace team photographer Ross Dettman, who has been with the organization since Day 1?
A nice honor for a good guy.
Gets me every time:
The dude who’s a French model ... at least according to the internet.
Bon jour!
Seeing red:
In the battle of red-and-white color schemes, you have to go with Nebraska over Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game, right?
Webb feet:
Lost in the shuffle of Jay Cutler tying J’ Marcus Webb’s shoe was the revelation that Webb has size 22 feet.
And here I thought Bob Lanier’s size 22 sneakers, displayed on the American Freedom train’s stop in Rockford in the summer of 1975, would be the biggest shoes I’d ever see.
Why do I remember obtuse things like that?
A tough listen:
Is there any more painful radio than a weekly coach’s show? Especially a weekly local college basketball coach’s show?
Pretty sure there’s not.
Of course:
We were spoiled around here with the all-time best coach’s show, albeit one that was on TV.
It went a little something like this ... :
Fan: “Yeah Coach, I was just wondering, when you guys dominate the Lions on Sunday, how much are you going to dominate them by? I’ll sit down and wait for my answer.”
All: “Woof.”
Tis’ the season:
Favorite image this week was that of an NYPD officer helping a barefoot homeless man into a new pair of socks and shoes the officer had purchased for the man ... just because he wanted to.
Nice.
Kudos:
To one fearless jockey — Seth Martinez — on recently collecting career win No. 2,000.
Yip, yip hooray:
Good job by golf’s Council of Elders in deciding to phase out those belly putters.
If I have to doink 4-foot putts all day, so should everyone else.
Hare raising:
Watched the first installment of “The Dust Bowl.”
Why is my lasting impression not necessarily of the dust, but of the jack rabbits?
Paging Mr. Fix-It:
When you’re done with Scott Baker, the Cubs have another one to add to your to-do list: Scott Feldman.
Mighty matchup:
Notre Dame vs. Alabama just sounds better than Notre Dame vs. Georgia.
No scientific reasoning behind it, just sounds better.
Wizardry:
That’s one wild trailer for the movie “Oz The Great and Powerful.”
The farewell and adieu quote:
“After spending several hours with both sides over two days, the presiding mediators concluded that the parties remained far apart, and that no progress toward a resolution could be made through further mediation at this point in time.”
— NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly.
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