- Carlos Alcaraz of Spain has created a sensation in his homeland. At the Madrid Open tennis tournament, Alcaraz, on consecutive days, has defeated both Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
- It would be his third championship in five weeks -- winning another Spanish ATP 1000 tournament and the Miami Open. He also won the Rio Open back in February.
- The Cincinnati Reds have won their fourth game of the season -- in 27 attempts. Too bad it was a AA game against the Pirates, I guess it counts...
- A SCOTUSBlog editorial hypothesizes the worst case for human rights in this country: That Justice Gorsuch has joined the Alito opinion, meaning that the hard right has the five votes needed to wipe out a century or more of civil rights advances enforced on the hardcore bigot conservatives with respect to women, gays, transgenders, abortion, and marriages. Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch are currently fully concurring -- Barrett (who is believed all but certain) and Kavanaugh are waiting on Roberts' partial dissent.
- The Pew Research Center with some abortion insights: The bulk of support appears to come from hardcore Protestants (not Catholics, whose 56-42 opposition is within margin of error of the 61-38). Support for banning abortion increases with less education and the older you get, but nothing like the 55-43 Protestant and 77-20 White Protestant support. If you want to know where you future lies in ChristoFascist AmeriKKKa, here it is. White Protestant Uneducated Older Males in a council over their property.
- Some horses are appropriately named. Rich Strike, winner of only a Churchill Downs claiming race as a two-year old and the longest shot in the field at an 80-1 shot, hit the lottery for immortality and won the 148th Kentucky Derby today. Rich Strike was only entered into the Derby as an alternate and got in the race only yesterday morning when Ethereal Road was scratched from the 20-horse field. In fact, Rich Strike was the SECOND ALTERNATE, drawn from a pool of alternates to enter the field on scratches. If horse racing weren't so barbaric, this would be one Hell of a story!
- The longest-odds horse to win the Derby in over a century -- the record is 1913's Donerail, who went off 91-1.
- Not a complete surprise that a longshot ran the table: Bob Baffert is banned from this and next year's Derby as a result of drugging horses.
- Sonny Leon wins $186,000 for the ride. The owners, etc. win about $1.6 million.
- Favorite Epicenter came second. Fourth-choice Zandon came third.
- Trying to find, for the record, the betting table:
Rich Strike $163.60 to win, 74.20 to place, 29.40 to show.
Epicenter 7.40 to place, 5.20 to show
Zandon 5.60 to show
- Evidence that the Baffert ban took all the preferred horses out and left a very even field -- and a very robust chance that, regardless of the outcome, a correct wager could pay well.
- Top five horse $1 wager paid off $741,000+.
- Every exotic wager paid four, five or six figures. Even the exacta paid $4100.
- I'll give you an idea boxing is rigged. Light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol ate Canelo for lunch tonight in Las Vegas. Most experts had the much-higher regarded challenger winning, what, two rounds?
- Good news: The judges did give the Russian the fight, and a unanimous decision.
- How they got it to 7 rounds to 5 on each card... That's another question. 115-113X3.
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