On Saturday night, the New York Knicks established an NBA record for 3-point field goal futility when they went 0 for 18 in a 20-point loss to the lowly New Jersey Nets Continue Reading

With Glowing Hearts/
Des plus brillants exploits

Motto for both the 2010
Winter Olympic Games and
the Paralympic Games Continue Reading

When he was five years old, Jim Ryun contracted the measles, and that cost him half of his hearing. In junior highschool at Wichita, Kansas, he could not make the track and field team. But, that did not deter Ryun, who went on to become one of the greatest runners ever, and the last American to hold the world record in the mile run. Continue Reading

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by Art Hershey
(Former senior manager for 15 years with the Los Angeles Turf Club, operator of Santa Anita Park.)

In the spring of l979, a strike called against all Thoroughbred racing facilities in California imperiled the very future of the sport in the Golden State.  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who represented the pari-mutuel wagering tellers, and still do, initiated the walkout.  There were no off-track wagering sites in those days.  Racing locally was scheduled at Hollywood Park in Inglewood. Continue Reading