08/05/2008 - Saratoga Springs, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Owner Jess Jackson revealed Tuesday that reigning Horse of the Year Curlin will make his next start in the Woodward Handicap at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, August 30. Jackson made the announcement during a national teleconference.
"We condsidered many options," Jackson stated, "but, this is the best place to display his talent. He is very happy (in Saratoga)."
The Woodward will be conducted on Saratoga's main track at 1 1/8 miles.
Jackson said two other races under consideration were the $1 million Pacific Classic on Sunday, August 24 at Del Mar and this week's Arlington Million on the turf.
On his Stonestreet Farms website, Jackson solicited input from fans as to where they would like to see Curlin run next. The final results showed 51- percent favored the colt staying on turf, while 33-percent wanted to see a return to dirt. There was also 10-percent that preferred Curlin run on a synthetic surface, while another 6-percent favored retirement.
"Curlin is not only a hero to me and my family but also to thousands of fans," said Jackson. "With so many people supporting Curlin and his future I am asking all racing fans where they think Curlin should go next."
Curlin's last race was on turf in the Man o'War at Belmont Park when he finished second to Red Rocks. Owned by Stonestreet Farms and Midnight Cry Stable, Curlin currently has $9,496,800 and Skip Away has earned $9,616,360. Cigar is first on the list with $9,999,815 in career earnings.
The four-year-old put in a workout Monday morning on the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga. He went five-furlongs in 1:02.72 with Jackson and his wife in attendance.
"He's in a beautiful rhythm, he's very comfortable," said trainer Steve Asmussen after the Monday workout. "He's very loose. It amazes me how he jogs off afterward. For me, it's like Christmas morning, I get giddy when I see him."
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Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their “supplements” to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this won’t be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a “truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit.” And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. “The plug-necked yahoos on your team,” you can say, “will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.”
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Where’s your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, “I’ll try to type slower for you next time.” Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, don’t just conclude by saying your opponent is a “twerp who drafts like my grandmother.” Say that your opponent is a “sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars.” By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m sure, to reply.
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Huskers' Lucky hospitalized for undisclosed reason
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska running back Marlon Lucky was hospitalized Monday for undisclosed reasons after Lincoln police responded to a call at his residence.
The Nebraska athletic department said in a release Monday that Lucky was admitted Sunday night.
MySportsbook.com has the Cornhuskers listed at +2500 to win the BCS National Championship odds.
A nursing supervisor at the hospital said all questions about Lucky were being referred to the athletic department. The athletic department said there would be no further comment from the department or Lucky's family.
A Lincoln Police spokesman said officers responded to a call at Lucky's residence 11:30 p.m. Sunday. The spokesman said he didn't know Lucky's condition at the time he was taken to the hospital.
Lucky, from North Hollywood, Calif., started six games last season as a sophomore and was the team's second-leading rusher, with 728 yards and six touchdowns. He also caught 32 passes for 383 yards. He averaged 19.1 yards on eight kickoff returns.
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