The thread that ties together the Billy Clyde Gillispie and John Calipari messes in University of Kentucky basketball are the incompetence and duplicity of President Lee Todd and Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart. The university’s Board of Trustees should call an emergency meeting to grill Todd and Barnhart. If they’re not satisfied with the answers, change […]

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It’s no big deal that the weasel Billy Clyde Gillispie filed a lawsuit against the University of Kentucky Athletics Association in Dallas, seeking millions in damages on the grounds that he was wrongfully terminated.
What is it with these clowns from Texas? Didn’t Claude Bassett try to sue UK after doing everything he could to ruin […]

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Here are 10 things I’m wondering about as we head into summer:
1. Isn’t it time the Louisville Bats dropped the color scheme of the Milwaukee Brewers, their former parent team, and adopted the colors of the Cincinnati Reds, their parent team now and for the foreseeable future? It also wouldn’t bother me at all to […]

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Here’s my final Preakness toteboard:
WINNER – The Preakness and the sport of racing, which got enormous national publicity because the anticipated duel between the Kentucky Derby winner, Mine That Bird, and the brilliant filly, Rachel Alexandra. The story transcended the normal news outlets, even making the nightly network news programs.
LOSER – The management of Pimlico […]

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We had a couple of terrific human-interest stories coming out of Kentucky Derby weekend, but doggone if Big Foot – wealthy horseman Jess Jackson – didn’t step in, open his wallet, and pretty much ruin them both. Once again, the business side of the sport trumps the human side, to the detriment of an industry […]

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A mug shot of David Williams should be posted at every race track and on every barn in Kentucky because the egomaniacal Republican Senate President is Enemy No. 1 to the commonwealth’s signature industry. He has repeatedly opposed any and all attempts to expand legal gaming, even though it’s abundantly clear that the horse industry […]

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The anti-abortion storm troopers of the American Roman Catholic Church are assaulting Notre Dame University for inviting President Barack Obama to deliver this weekend’s commencement address. You can almost hear their hobnailed boots, marching in lockstep, as they trample on our nation’s most fundamental founding principles.
The issue, of course, is the President’s position on abortion […]

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Here’s my final toteboard on the 135th Kentucky Derby:
WINNER – The American racing public. Everybody agrees the sport needs heroes. If Mine That Bird, a gelding, proves that his Derby form was no fluke, he’ll be a factor on the national scene as a 4-year-old and maybe even at 5.
LOSER – The Kentucky breeding industry. […]

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It has been years, maybe since Spectacular Bid in 1979, that we’ve had a Kentucky Derby favorite as overwhelming as, say, Rachel Alexandra was in yesterday’s Kentucky Oaks. She won so easily – her final margin of 20-plus lengths doubled the Oaks record – that she brought to mind what happened exactly a decade ago, […]

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