Rutgers University – Gambing Prevalence Report 2023
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.
Hunter S. Thompson
But for someone whose main hobby and side hustle was hawking notions of financial freedom and literacy, his recent actions (and those of his associates) didn’t exactly reflect much of the latter. There may be different mechanisms at play between sports betting and stock trading, but ultimately, both are heavily influenced by transaction volume in the market—factoring liquidity risk is one of the very fundamental elements of understanding how any of this even works. Knowing that, one would never try to get away with an $80,000 parlay wager in a justifiably barren market on a fringe player coming off the bench for a tanking Raptors team. According to the league’s report, Porter—who clearly knew the trend line of his numbers, having logged at least 20 minutes per game in the previous four contests—intentionally manipulated the game and his place in it. All for the opportunity to win $1.1 million, less than the salary he made playing 11 games for the Grizzlies in 2021. On a literal bet against himself. It’s human to minimize one’s own sense of worth. It’s something else entirely to treat yourself like shitcoin.
The Ringer – Danny Chau – The Twisted Irony of the Jontay Porter Scandal
The Ringer – Jeff Weiss – Coachella Isn’t Dead—but It May Be Haunted
Special Sovereign Award: ROBERT “RED” MCKENZIE
After more than 80 years working in horse racing in Alberta, you might think that Robert ‘Red’ McKenzie has done it all. A former jockey, and then successful trainer, who has won some 1,600 races, Robert landed in the record books the evening of June 23, 2023 when his mare Entitled Star won a claiming race at Century Mile. At the age of 96, he became the oldest trainer to saddle a winner in Canadian racing history when his mare circled the field as the longest shot on the board at 25-1.
Considering Thoroughbred racing statistics are hard to come by before 1976, the official number of winners for Robert as a jockey, trainer, and owner, could be much higher than 1,600. But what is known is that the Alberta resident, who was born Jan. 1, 1927, was still bringing horses over to race in 2023. Robert loved horses and started riding at the age of 10 at a riding academy in Edmonton. He accompanied his father and sister to the racetrack and started riding races at bush tracks such as Ponoka, Rimbey, and Red Deer. When he turned 16 and was old enough to ride the ‘A’ tracks, he would travel throughout the Western Canada Association which included tracks in Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Saskatoon.
Outstanding Off-track Worker: JENNIFER BUCK
The inaugural Outstanding Off-Track Worker Award was presented to Jennifer Buck, who has been with Adrian Munro’s Highfield Stock Farm in Okotoks, Alberta, since 2013.
The Jockey Club of Canada introduced the Outstanding Off-Track Worker Award as a way to honor the unsung heroes who make Thoroughbred racing in Canada possible through their hard work and dedication at off-track thoroughbred racing, training, boarding, breeding, sales, and aftercare farms and facilities.
Jennifer, who was born in Ontario, learned to ride horses at a young age when living in Connecticut. Once settled in Alberta as a teenager, she worked for Glenview Stables and manager Brian Ferguson, a Windfields Farm alumni, learning the intricacies of farm management, from painting fences to barn care. She pursued performing arts in school at Mount Royal and worked as a fly-fishing guide on the famous Bow River, which she still does today.
But the lure of horses was too strong. While raising her son Hunter, Jennifer went to work at the famed Bar None Ranches for Mike Vanin. She also had a love for working with polo horses and she played at the Calgary Polo Club before moving over to Highfield.
Bloodhorse – Fev Rover Honored as Canada’s Horse of the Year
Phil has a question:
Is this lady’s playing designed to coax the whale out or drive it out.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – CHRB Approves Santa Anita’s New ‘Three by Three’ Wager
You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz
TSN – Travis Yost – Here’s why the NHL will work in Salt Lake City
It is not down in any map, true places never are.
Herman Melville
SportsNet – Coyotes owner adamant he’ll bring NHL back to Arizona
Phil has a question:
Has any sportsbook given odds on Meruelo bringing the Coyotes back to Arizona.
ESPN – Emily Kaplan – NHL approves Coyotes sale, relocation to Salt Lake City
That’s almost Roger Tempo.
SportsNet – Elliotte Friedman – How the NHL moved the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake City
Phil has a question:
Would Goodell have paid Meruelo $1 billion for a team that can’t pay its hotel bills.
ESPN – Everything we know about the Arizona Coyotes moving to Utah
Phil has a question:
Will the NHL owners finally realize that Bettman is the worst Commissioner in any pro sport ever and give him and sidekick Bill the broom.
Does anyone in the world other than the brutally incompetent Bettman and sidekick Bill think that Meruelo is going to do anything other than Take the money and run.
ESPN – Emily Kaplan – Sources: Coyotes players told team is relocating to Utah
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can’t be taught.
Paul Desmond
Phil has a question:
How about the Salt Lakers.
How about the Utah CoyUtes.
How about the Utah Anvils
How about the Utah Blacksmiths
How about the Utah Desert DustBusters.
How about the SLC Choirboys.
How about the Utah Jetzz.
How about the Utah Rock.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman
Bloodhorse – Graded Stakes Winner Wit Supplemented to Keeneland Sale
Bloodhorse – Dicky Downey – Justify Connections Appeal Santa Anita Derby DQ Order
TDN – Dan Ross – CHRB Denies Stay of Justify Decision, Will Entertain Appeal
The Ringer – Dan Moore – When Fans Fight Back
The Athletic – Dane Brugler – 7-round NFL mock draft: Dane Brugler predicts all 257 picks
Phil has a question:
Is any NFL team going to take a chance and draft D.J. Burns Jr.
SportsNet – Raptors’ Jontay Porter banned from NBA after betting investigation
Paulick Report – Copper Tax Draws Outside 10 Rivals In Federico Tesio
TDN – Century Mile Kentucky Derby Party
The Athletic – Chiefs’ Travis Kelce to host game show ‘Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?’
Phil has a question:
Are you smarter than a football player who loses his SuperBowl Ring in a pool of Chili.
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Dollars & Sense: Marketing the Racing We Have
Phil has a question:
Did horse racing learn anything from the recent total eclipse of the sun.
What is Horse Racing Alberta doing to have horse racing in Alberta included with the proliferation of sports betting opportunities.
When they gaze out their windows are Clark Kent and the Undertaker trying to telepathically communicate with the Alberta cabinet ministers.
TDN – HISA Announces Next Generation Advisory Group Membership
Phil has a question:
How many more levels of bureaucracy are Lisa Lazarus and HISA going to create to burn through the owners’ funds.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Ronald Reagan
ESPN – Sabres fire Don Granato as record playoff drought continues
Phil has a question:
Do you know why they fire hockey coaches.
Phil has an answer:
Cuz they can’t fire 20 players.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Suspended by HIWU, Diodoro Enters Horse at Lone Star
You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
Diodoro has been summarily suspended until the case has been reviewed by HIWU’s Internal Adjunction Panel and then by a federal administrative law judge. A resolution to the case has not yet been posted on the HIWU website.
Phil has a question:
How many more layers of useless incompetent bureaucracy does Lisa Lazarus need to show the world that she’s queen of horse racing in the United States.
Isn’t it time that horse racing was run by people with skin in the game not a bunch of useless double dipping bureaucrats.
Gerard Melancon: I would kick HISA out of the industry – it’s the government trying to run our industry and we don’t need that
Phil has a question:
What is the difference between having more information and being smarter.
ESPN – Everything we know about the Arizona Coyotes moving to Utah
Phil has a question:
Will the NHL owners finally realize that Bettman is the worst Commissioner in any pro sport ever and show him and sidekick Bill the broom.
Does anyone in the world other than the brutally incompetent Bettman and sidekick Bill think that Meruelo is going to do anything other than Take the money and run.
Phil has a question:
With the “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””student athletes””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””” now earning NIL money shouldn’t their scholarships be going to needy students with academic skills.
TDN – Dan Ross – From Training to Equine Therapy, Chews Finding New Balance in Idaho
New York Times – Jacob Bernstein – When O.J. Simpson ‘Confessed’ to Murder
Phil has a question:
Will the estate posthumously publish OJ’s other book – Search For The Real Killer.
Is the only book shorter Donald J Trump’s Book on Business Ethics.
ESPN – Emily Kaplan – Sources: Coyotes players told team is relocating to Utah
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can’t be taught.
Paul Desmond
Phil has a question:
How about the Salt Lakers.
How about the Utah CoyUtes.
How about the Utah Desert DustBusters.
How About the SLC Choirboys.
How about the Utah Jetzz.
How about the Utah Rock.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman
Los Angeles Times – Elaine Woo – O.J. Simpson, former football star accused of murder, has died
The Ringer – Bryan Curtis – O.J. Simpson Lived and Died in Infamy, Never Out of the Spotlight
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
Bloodhorse – Dick Downey – Trainer Fee When Horse Sold Argued in KY Supreme Court
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
The Ringer – Justin Charity – Where Did It All Go Wrong for J.Lo?
Phil has a question:
Have you ever noticed that after a few years most singers and bands start sounding like Perry Como.
Phil has a question:
Will the team’s new name be the CoyUtes.
Bloodhorse – Franke Vespe – Maryland Step Closer on Pimlico-Centered Racing Plan
Sports Business Journal – Maryland approves $400M plan to rebuild Pimlico
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Bill Barber – British Jockey Club Plans to Cut Purse Contribution
TDN – Bill Finley – From Maine to California, These Tracks Are Gone, But Not Forgotten
Phil M Stockmen
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