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Entries from March 2009

HALL OF FAME ASTERISKS

March 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Bob Costas of NBC Sports is a 19-time Emmy Award winner who covers the Kentucky Derby for the network. His real passion is baseball.  Costas was one of the earliest critics of steroids in Major League Baseball. Recently, he has been speaking out about whether players who have been steroid users should be elected to [...]

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HALSEY MINOR FOR RACING’S JOBS

March 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Racing needs Jobs…Steve Jobs, that is.  The staid industry could benefit from a creative genius.  Most of the people in charge of racetracks and other industry organizations are buttoned-down analytical types.  The sport could use a heavy injection of intuitive thinking, some right-brained ideas. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 when he was 21-years-old.  The company’s [...]

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