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	<title>billyreedsays.com</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hancock Quit for A Number of Good Reasons</title>
		<link>http://billyreedsays.com/2008/06/25/hancock-quit-for-a-number-of-good-reasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Reed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Churchill Downs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you believe Seth Hancock quit the Churchill Downs board of directors simply to “move on and embrace new challenges,” as his official statement said, then you don’t know much about Hancock’s values, his family’s history, or the bottom-line mentality of the track’s current administration.
Hancock, president of the world-famous Claiborne Farm and a Churchill director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russert&#8217;s Brand of Journalism Too Rare</title>
		<link>http://billyreedsays.com/2008/06/20/russerts-brand-of-journalism-too-rare/</link>
		<comments>http://billyreedsays.com/2008/06/20/russerts-brand-of-journalism-too-rare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when respect for journalists ranks somewhere between televangelists and politicians, the outpouring of respect and affection for Tim Russert was something of a phenomenon. The main reason so many people liked him was that he was the antithesis of the hatemongers and charlatans – yes, this means you, Limbaugh and Michael Savage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praise for Hawpe the Sports Journalist</title>
		<link>http://billyreedsays.com/2008/06/18/praise-for-hawpe-the-sports-journalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read David Hawpe’s column in today’s Courier-Journal, you may have been surprised to learn that he received an inscribed football from the members of the 1961-’62 freshman football team at the University of Kentucky. Why the surprise? Well, suffice it to say that in his long and distinguished editorial career, David has exhibited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C-J Misses Open, But Why?</title>
		<link>http://billyreedsays.com/2008/06/17/c-j-misses-open-but-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Reed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Golf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was sports editor of The Courier-Journal, I tried to cover the U.S. Open golf tournament every year. I did it mainly because I believe Louisville and southern Indiana is a golf hotbed. Of course, it helped that I loved to play the game, one of Dan Jenkins “dogged victims of inexorable fate.”
So I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was The Fix In at Belmont Park?</title>
		<link>http://billyreedsays.com/2008/06/11/was-the-fix-in-at-belmont-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy Reed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Horse Racing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The mystery of Big Brown’s shocking demise in the Belmont Stakes is potentially a far greater scandal than Eight Belles’ tragic breakdown after the Kentucky Derby. Yet where’s the outrage both inside and outside the industry? Why hasn’t a commission been empanelled to investigate it? Where are the custodians of the sport’s integrity when we [...]]]></description>
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