SportsNet – Grant – Who’s who and key agents of change in the Hockey Canada investigation
“Many of the people on sport boards do not have expertise in governance and don’t understand their duty of care, yet when they walk into the boardroom, they become the boss of everything,” Leanne Nicolle, a Canada Soccer board member from 2017-2020, said in an interview.
“It’s a system that is mired in mediocrity and it’s pervasive. As a board member, I asked hard questions, and they were not answered. The people around the table didn’t have an appetite to tackle hard issues like equity and abuse. These boards need to bring in people who will provide expertise and challenge norms, on top of meeting their fiduciary responsibilities.”
TSN – Westhead -MP plans to call former Hockey Canada board member to testify about gifts, perks
Horse Racing Alberta 2021 Annual Report
Horse Racing Alberta 2011 Annual Report
Handle – 2011 – $ 149,403,744 2010 $ 151,747,286
Handle – 2021 -$81,542.017 2020 $86,278,992
Sal says the 2011 report lets one gauge just how brutally the Captain and Tenille and the Undertaker have managed and promoted horse racing in Alberta.
The minions at Horse Racing Alberta may blame Covid for the brutally dismal 2020 and 2021 numbers, but 2018 and 2019 weren’t much better.
Handle – 2019 $99,262,303 2018 $108,029,809
Sal says that horse racing in Alberta’s in a very serious deKlein and the efforts of the minions at Horse Racing Alberta have exacerbated the situation rather than improved racing.
Sal says that if any business in the world was operated the same way that Horse Racing Alberta has operated and continues to be operated, they’d shut their doors in a heartbeat.
Now Sal says that you may be asking yourself what do Hockey Canada, The Centre for Disease Control and Horse Racing Alberta have in common. Sal says that you can tell yourself that each of these is a government Agency, Board or Commission, the A, B, Cs of government and each of these has been very poorly run and far more important very poorly monitored by the government they are responsible to.
Never get in a pissing match with a skunk.
Cowboy Wisdom
America’s Best Racing – Johnson – Buckpasser: The Hall of Fame Racehorse With a Nonchalant Attitude
TDN – Thornton – Baffert Takes Stand in Day One of ’21 Derby DQ Appeal
Southern Living – 48 Tasty Tailgate Recipes To Make for Game Day
Bloodhorse – Precious – State Gaming Commission Addresses Housing and Claiming
TDN – Thornton – NY Proposes Rules Tweaks for Challenging, Voiding Claims
Horse Race Insider – HORSE RACE BETTING FOR BEGINNERS
Sal says that until Jim Lawson and Woodbine stop cheating the rest of Canada out of their winnings and use those ill-gotten monies to subsidize Woodbine you can’t believe a word that Lawson says about trying to improve horse racing in Canada.
Sal says that the UCP’s plan for a provincial police force is sheer nonsense election grandstanding. They can’t properly manage the A, B, Cs that already exist so let’s create another one for us to mismanage.
Sal says that Sal’s extremely disappointed that neither of the Alberta NHL teams nor the west coast whales have signed free agent Sam Steel. Not only is Sam Edmonton born and raised, he played his Junior Hockey on the prairies and has immense historical significance to this province and all of western Canada.
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull
Horse Racing Nation – Ryan and Greer – First Look: Travers leads the week’s 11 graded stakes
Paulick Report – Nevills – A Historic Coronation: Fiery Filly Moira Sets Track Record In
TDN – Charge It Out of Travers; Nest Exits Alabama in Good Order
The New Yorker – Hsu – My Dad and Kurt Cobain
The Hockey News – Kennedy – World Juniors: Are the Finns and Swedes Not Metal Anymore?
Sports Business Journal – NFL accepted Watson deal terms in part to move on from story
Deseret – Dallas – Dennis Rodman heading to Russia to try to help Brittney Griner
Garden and Gun – Florio – In Praise of Lazy Landscaping
Books are where words live. I read to discover if anybody’s home.
Tom Van Dyke
TDN –Ghostzapper’s Moira Crushes Colts in Queen’s Plate
TSN – CP – Moira wins 163rd Queen’s Plate at Woodbine
Horse Racing Nation – Snierson – Saratoga 2022: John Velázquez reflects on Hall of Fame career
Friends of Ed Racing Stable’s Tone It Up gave David Nicholson his 300th victory with her win in the Century Oaks at Century Mile on Saturday, August 20, 2022.
Bloodhorse – Wilkin – Nest Blitzes Rivals in Alabama
DRF – Grening – Nest leaves little doubt who rules division with dominant Alabama score
Paulick Report – McCalmont – Nest Commanding Winner Of Alabama Stakes, Secret Oath Second
Brisnet – Hanson – Nest scintillating again at the Spa in Alabama
Mashed – Alberts – The Most Overrated Bourbons, According To Bartenders
Jimmy Robison Field is named after the mayor who brought the Indian Head Rockets to town. When the Rockets played major tournaments in the 1950s, diamonds were set up inside the racetrack.
CBC – Eneas – Golden Opportunity
SportsNet – Gotta See It: McTavish makes the save of the year at the goal line in overtime
TSN – Johnson scores in overtime to claim the gold medal for Canada over Finland
Mashed – Fisher – The Real Reason You Should Order Your Pizza Uncut
Farnam Street – How To Spot Bad Science
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary
Ethos – Ettinger – Former NFL QB Jake Plummer Found God In Mushrooms So Now He Grows Them
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
Frank Zappa
Canadian Thoroughbred – Morrison – Great Escape Slips Away to Canadian Derby Win
Bloodhorse – Gantz – Spendarella Much the Best in Del Mar Oaks
Paulick Report – McBride – Spendarella Earns First Grade 1 With Overpowering Del Mar Oaks Triumph
TDN – Karakontie’s Spendarella Wins For Fun in Del Mar Oaks
Southern Living – Everything You Need to Know About Cowboy Caviar, the Perfect Potluck Dish
Remember to load your brain before you shoot your mouth off.
Cowboy Wisdom
Bloodhorse – Byron King – New Running Style Benefits Haughty in Lake Placid
TDN – Runhappy Travers Workers Out in Force Saturday
TDN – Rich Strike Tunes Up For Runhappy Travers
Bloodhorse – Brown Pleased with Travers Trio After Final Works
TDN – Mendelssohn’s Classical Cat Springs The Upset At Del Mar
Front Office Sports – Rutgers Football Reportedly Racked Up $450K DoorDash Bill
Garden and Gun – Gomez-Misserian – The Fascinating Way Dolphins Dine in Charleston
Mashed – Cahn – What Bobby Flay Really Thinks About The Bear’s Hot Chef
Horse Racing Nation – Ross and Tamulonis – Head to Head: Handicapping the Alabama Stakes
What, you were expecting Lynyrd.
Sports Illustrated – Prewitt – How Tua Tagovailoa Became the NFL’s Most Polarizing Player
TDN – NYRA to Host Ukraine Day Aug. 24 at Saratoga
Horse Racing Nation – Chad Brown returns to track, does not comment on arrest
Sal says that the ongoing saga of How the Backstretch Turns will continue after a word from our influencers.
Horse Race Insider – SARATOGA DIARY–DAY 27, COVID–DAY 15, AND TOP-CLASS RACING REMAINS A REFUGE
Sports Illustrated – Scott – Deshaun Watson Was Asked Whether He Maintains His Innocence
Sal says that Goodell should have made the suspension settlement contingent on Deshaun Watson shutting the fuck up and the penalty for denying should have been 1 more game every time he denies.
Sports Illustrated – Selbe – Buzbee Bashes Goodell, NFL After Deshaun Watson Suspension Settlement
Los Angeles Times – California voters don’t want Biden or Trump to run in 2024, poll shows
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Chief Seattle
By 2011, Trump had driven his Atlantic City casinos into the ground, but he didn’t give up running sweepstakes. On the campaign trail, he’s awarded more than a hundred prizes in fund-raising contests. Supporters typically donate five or ten bucks for the chance to win a trip, all expenses paid, to meet him. Recently, his political-action committee sent an e-mail with a new offer: “Contribute ANY AMOUNT RIGHT NOW to be automatically entered to have dinner with President Trump in New Orleans.” He probably raised a lot of money; according to the Washington Post, similar contests have brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the trip to New Orleans came and went, and no winner was announced. A representative for Trump explained that there had been an “administrative error.”
The New Yorker – Maysh – Donald Trump and the Sweepstakes Scammers
Bloodhorse – Perez – Baltas Sues CHRB, Seeking More Than $12 Million
Paulick Report – Two Grooms Held Without Bail On Felony Drug Charges After Saratoga Dorm Raided
Bloodhorse – Two Grooms Arrested on Narcotics Charges at Saratoga
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’
Isaac Asimov
Sal says we’re spending good money to try and figure out how to grow food on Mars, but unless we start to take better care of planet earth there will be no one left to go to Mars.
Sal cannot understand why some scientist is being lauded for making plastic out of seaweed when the problem is too much plastic in the oceans already. Sal says Sal would laud that scientist if he discovered how to make seaweed out of plastic.
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can’t say, ‘Is it too late?’ That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it’s too late, you don’t need to act; if it’s not too late, you don’t need to act.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Future Farming – Effectiveness of electricity in weed control explored
Sal says that Snoopy and a laser gun should solve the weed problem.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
Snoopy
BBC – Sanna Marin: Finland PM partying video causes backlash
You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party
There’s no sense In doing a lot of barking if you don’t really have anything to say.
Snoopy
Sports Business Journal – SBJ Unpacks: MSG arena, RSNs could be spun off
Hawthorne Sal
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