If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I can’t get enough of watching Secretariat win the Belmont Stakes in 1973. It was the race where “Big Red” won by 31 lengths and became history’s ninth Triple Crown Winner. If that…
On Wednesday, another fan was injured at a Major League Baseball park when a line drive off a player’s bat careened into the stands down the left field line at an Astros game and into a section without protective netting.…
Before I go into handicapping the second-leg of this year’s Triple Crown races, I want to add a bit more commentary about the Kentucky Derby debacle. I’ve noticed a deep divide has formed about how the Derby ended between the…
Like many other horse racing fans (and just about anyone who watched the Kentucky Derby) it hasn’t sat right with me the way this year’s race ended. The outright winner and favorite (Maximum Security) was “disqualified” for impeding the paths…
Trying to handicap a Kentucky Derby is hard enough with a twenty (20) horse field of three-year olds who’ve never raced at a mile and a quarter before. But, to have the favorite scratch just days before the big show… it…
Only six weeks left until the next Run for the Roses. Seems like it comes up faster and faster every year… So, where do the contenders stand before the last prep races finish up? In a nutshell, there seems to be…
I wrote this post in 2019, but my opinion hasn't changed... Does your top 5 resemble mine?
Every year, the competition seems to get tougher on the PGA Tour. A steady stream of accomplished young players comes into the fold, many of the aging pros are still doing special things on the golf course and in between, the…
Another Super Bowl and the Patriots are in it, again. Yey. Can’t you just tell my enthusiasm? Like others who are tired of New England in the big show, I’d rather not have to pick them to win again. But, that’s where this…
All eyes will be on Gulfstream Park in South Florida this Saturday (Jan 26) when the third annual running of the prestigious Pegasus World Cup Invitational will take place. The $9 million purse makes it the richest race in North America…
On Tuesday (January 22), the Baseball Writers Association of American (BBWAA) will announce which of the thirty-five recently retired MLB players included on the 2019 Hall of Fame ballot will be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in…
It’s hard to believe that another year has gone by and I’m back here again with you for my seventh annual Frankengolfer article. You may remember that I construct a yearly four-headed monster born of the previous season’s statistics with…