Without gambling, I would not exist.
Hunter S Thompson
Sports Business Journal – King – Betting’s Triple Play
FiveThirtyEight – Paine – Rams Or Bengals? Our Guide To Super Bowl LVI.
Sports Business Journal – Fischer – The NFL Goes Hollywood
LA Times – Plashke – Column: Welcome back, Super Bowl. L.A. is where you belong
Sports Illustrated – Nashawaty – The Long, Strange Relationship Between the Super Bowl and Hollywood
For SuperBowl Sunday if you’re tired of delivery pizza with crust that’s indistinguishable from the box and the ridiculous delivery charges you can always make your own pizza at home with a little help from those famous pizza masters.
Phil has a question:
Why do we need Black History Month.
Is it for the same reason that Brian Flores just torched his NFL head coaching ambitions when he sued the NFL and the Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos and New York Giants for racial discrimination.
Do you think that Joe Capp or Warren Moon would have ever played in the CFL if there was no racial discrimination in the NFL.
Undefeated – Reid – Brian Flores’ lawsuit shines a brutal light on the NFL’s hiring practices
Phil respectfully disagrees with Rhoden. Money rules the NFL just like all other sports. When the NFL realized that there was money to be made with quarterbacks like Capp and Moon the colour lines for quarterbacks slowly eroded. The colour lines eroded on the playing field, but not in the corporate boardrooms.
SportsNet – Bennett – Brian Flores is forcing NFL to confront what employment racism looks like
Sports Business Journal – Brian Flores lawsuit: Renewed spotlight put on NFL’s diversity hiring
FiveThirtyEight – Bacon Jr. and Paine – A 5-Part Plan To Fix The NFL’s Coaching Diversity Problem
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
Johan Cruyff
ESPN – Fowler – Roger Goodell: Results of NFL’s coaching diversity efforts ‘unacceptable’
Phil has a question:
Is Goodell more displeased that the NFL teams have failed to embrace diversity in their coaching ranks or that Flores pointed out that Goodell has done sweet fuck all to ensure that NFL teams embrace diversity in their coaching ranks.
Without Flores action how many more years of Goodell’s inaction would the NFL have embraced.
Which of Flores’ accusations will Goodell investigate first – racial discrimination, deliberate tanking or tampering.
Which of Flores’ accusations will receive the most severe penalty – racial discrimination, deliberate tanking or tampering.
Is there a rug big enough for everything to be swept under.
Is Roger Goodell’s favourite colour whitewash.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut
TSN – AP – Pro Bowl players echo concerns brought by Flores’ discrimination lawsuit
Sports Illustrated – Breer – The NFL’s Problems With Diversity Stem From the Owners
The Atlantic – Serwer – Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race
The New Yorker – Schulz – “Bambi” Is Even Bleaker Than You Thought
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky or Ray Bradbury
and if you wait a while Taylor Swift or Kanye West will be passing it off as theirs.
And yes Phil does think that Taylor Swift writes her own bubblegum drivel.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa
CBC – Derworiz – ‘One of the biggest Black settlements in Western Canada’ has a rich history
Bloodhorse – 312 Horses Early Nominations to 2022 Triple Crown
Apprehend owned by Peter Redekop B C Ltd by Arrogate (Unbridled’s Song) out of Hero’s Amor (Street Hero) is nominated.
Hero’s Amor was a many time Stakes winner that was raced by Elevated Bloodstock.
February 12, 2022 3 year old Stakes
El Camino Real Derby Golden Gate Fields 1 1/8 Miles
Sam F. Davis S GIII Tampa Bay Downs 1 1/16 Miles
Bloodhorse – King – Classic Causeway Leads Large Sam F. Davis Field
Horse Racing Nation – Flatter – Derby preps: What styles win Sam F. Davis, El Camino Real?
Paulick Report – Dinerman – Pharoah Colt MacKinnon Tops 11-Strong Field For El Camino Real Derby
Paulick Report – Starr – Equibase Analysis: God Of Love Poised To Upset Sam F. Davis
Paulick Report – Howling Time, Classic Causeway Lead Big Field For Sam F. Davis At Tampa Bay Downs
Bloodhorse – 2022 Triple Crown Nominations
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Friday, May 6, 2022
Bloodhorse – King – Florida Horses White Hot in Derby Dozen Rankings
Horse Racing Nation -Kentucky Derby 2022 Contenders
Racing Dudes – 2022 Kentucky Derby
Belmont Stakes Racing Festival
TDN – Bill Finley – Pletcher Lays Out Plans For Top 3-Year-Olds
TDN – Smile Happy, White Abarrio Top Individual Choices in Derby Future Wager Pool 3
Phil has a question:
Without Baffert’s horses how much of a joke is the Derby Future Wager.
Paulick Report – Henry – Tampa Bay Downs Expecting Full Field For Derby Prep Sam F. Davis
TDN – Bill Finley – The Week in Review: Some Good News for a Change
TDN – Race Day Colt All Alone in Holy Bull
Bloodhorse – King – White Abarrio Defeats Simplification in Holy Bull
Paulick Report – White Abarrio Pulls Off 6-1 Upset In Holy Bull
Bloodhorse – White Abarrio Likely to Run Next in Florida Derby
TDN – Gun Runner Colt Takes it to Them ‘Early’ in Withers
Paulick Report – Early Voting Never Challenged In Aqueduct’s Withers
Bloodhorse – Early Voting Exits Withers Victory in Good Order
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Messier Much the Best in Robert B. Lewis Romp
TDN – Messier Bounces Back and Blows Them Away in Bob Lewis
Brisnet – Johnson – Messier in league of his own in Robert B. Lewis
Phil has a question:
Did Messier just make the CDI – Baffert Kentucky Derby squabble messier.
Will the Stronach group offer the Baffert horses a shot at a bonus if they win the Florida Derby or the Santa Anita Derby or a special pre-Preakness stake and then win the Preakness.
TDN – Medaglia d’Oro Colt Gets Out in Time to Take Kitten’s Joy
Bloodhorse – Grand Sonata Finds Seam, Up in Time in Kitten’s Joy
TDN – Into Mischief Colt Takes Swale
TDN – Nyquist’s Nitrous Channel Impressive On Debut
Bloodhorse – Rollins – In Due Time Rolls in Gulfstream Park Allowance
TDN – Not This Time Colt Super Impressive at Gulfstream
Bloodhorse – Crosby – Girl With a Dream Holds Off Radio Days in Forward Gal
TDN – Another Step ‘Forward’ for Practical Joke Filly
TDN – Carasso – Opalina Gives Optimizer a First Stakes Winner in Sweetest Chant
TDN – Uncle Mo Filly All Alone in Las Virgenes
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – Hot Rod Charlie Hits on All Cylinders in Dubai
Racing Post – Bill Barber – Jockey Club accused of undermining racing after signing casino deal
Paulick Report – Cohen: Harness Racing Is Trying To Ignore Biggest Scandal (Yet) Of The Year
Times Union – Munson – N.Y. lab losing battle of doping in horse racing’s ‘cat and mouse game’
Garden and Gun – Nickens – Bonefish on Drugs
Phil has a question:
Does Baffert know about this excuse.
Will Baffert start exercising his horses in the ocean near the mouths of rivers.
Will Baffert claim his horses ingested tainted seaweed.
Phil has a question:
How many medical doctors carry on their practices just like Fishman
Bloodhorse – Downey – Hollendorfer, Stronach Group Poised to Battle in Court
Bloodhorse – King – Baffert Duo of Messier, Wharton Lead Five-Horse Lewis
TDN – Napravnik To Spearhead ‘New Vocations Day at the Races’
With Jockey, you’re telling the story of both a disappearing world and a harsh subculture. What attracts you to these sorts of stories?
I think it’s just that old saw of writing what you know. I grew up in these kinds of worlds with these kinds of people—working people who live in a harsh world and yet never lack for humor or love or optimism. It’s a life I hope to get to keep exploring onscreen and through stories.
Garden and Gun – Powell – Get to Know Jockey Director—and Florida Native—Clint Bentley
Phil has a question:
How terrifying for thoroughbred racing is the fact that the interviewer and interviewee both treat thoroughbred racing as a disappearing world.
The Bitter Southerner – Hanson – The Last Oyster Tongers of Apalachicola
Al Jazeera – Nolan – On the trail of a pirate
Canada’s National Observer – Boffrey – Swedish firm calling in the crows for garbage patrol
Phil has a solution that would also help the homeless problem. Five cent deposit on cigarette filters, three cents for returned and two cents for administration.
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.
Anon
and if you wait a while Taylor Swift or Kanye West will be passing it off as theirs.
Phil has a question:
Will the PC leader’s mantra now be – Beware the day of the groundhog.
Why is 99.9% of the Canadian media pussyfooting around an event that Natasha aptly describes as speedy and brutal.
Et Tu, Brute
Caesar
National Post – Manitoba MP Candice Bergen chosen as interim Conservative leader
Phil has a question:
Was it her Murphy Brown experience that got her the job.
National Post – CP – Candice Bergen sweeps away Erin O’Toole’s parliamentary leadership team
CBC News – French – Some Edmonton conservatives want a CPC leader with broad Canadian appeal
Let me tell you the whole truth: if ever Fascism should come to America, it will come in the name of ‘freedom.’
Thomas Mann
FiveThirtyEight – Paine – Is Tom Brady The GOATiest Of All The GOATs?
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
Johan Cruyff
The Ringer – Phillips – The Two Sides of Tom Brady
The Ringer – Sherman – How Long Could Tom Brady Really Have Kept Playing?
Sports Illustrated – Tom Brady Retirement Commemorative
Phil has a question:
Is there anyone who has never air drummed to that song while driving down the highway.
If you’re driving have you ever sped up to hasten the appearance of the drums.
How do some songs invade your accelerator and sped your vehicle up when you turn up the volume.
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
Moshe Dayan
‘They’re playing hard for J.B. … If a team plays hard, generally it means a coach is making an impact and making a connection with that group.’
Undefeated – J.B. Bickerstaff finding his groove with surprising Cavaliers
Phil has a question:
Is that the difference in the play between the Flames and Oilers this year.
The Guardian – Stuart – Will Wordle still be free after the New York Times buyout?
Paulick Report – Letter To The Editor: An Aussie Perspective On Being An American Racing Fan
The Ringer – Heifetz – The 2022 NFL Quarterback Commitment Index
Southern Living – Locker – Six Companions You Should Never Plant with Tomatoes (and Four You Should)
Oneida – The Legend of The Three Sisters
Our State – Castle – Supper with Three Sisters
Esquire – Thomson – Michael Corleone, Role Model
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
Norman Mailer
Sportsnet – Bettman says Coyotes’ ASU plan is acceptable if new building gets commitment
Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!
TSN – Bettman addresses controversial comments made by Blackhawks owner
Southern Living – Wu – 21 Valentine’s Day Desserts Where Chocolate Isn’t the Star
The Undefeated – Maraniss – Jesse Owens vs. Hitler wasn’t the only story at the 1936 Olympics
The Ringer – Heifetz – The Pilot Flying J Fraud Scandal Hasn’t Touched Browns Owner Jimmy Haslam
Phil has a question:
Would you believe anything that a cheating scumbag like Jimmy Haslam says.
Will Haslam use the same approach that worked for him in the discount scam – “I see Nothing.”
Have they found Jimmy Hoffa yet.
Is whitewash Roger Goodell’s favourite colour.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
Tom Sawyer to Huck Finn
Phil M Stockmen
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