- Video: Blake Griffin top pick in NBA draft
- Sixers' big choice: It's Jrue Holiday
- Sixers see Holiday as point guard of the future
The Sixers were the sixth seed in the East. The conference finalists (Orlando, Cleveland) got better on draft day before anybody made a choice. When you get perennial All-Stars like Vince Carter and Shaq, you definitely improve.
- Video: Belmont Favorite: Mine That Bird
TOMORROW'S Belmont Stakes is not a complicated handicapping proposition. You either believe in Calvin Borel and Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, you go with Charitable Man, the horse that should control the pace, or you throw out Dunkirk's Kentucky Derby and take the $3.7 million yearling that was so impressive when finishing second in the Florida Derby.
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IF HORSE RACING could find a way to bottle the feeling from the Triple Crown and stretch it out over a calendar year, it would be the NFL. But it really can't, so it isn't.
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BALTIMORE - If this game were completely predictable, I would just pick Rachel Alexandra in tomorrow's Preakness and forget about it. If, however, it were completely predictable, Smarty Jones would have won the 2004 Belmont Stakes.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Remember when picking the Kentucky Derby winner was somewhere between difficult and impossible? For most of the 1990s, the Derby winner seemed random.
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JUST ABOUT THIS TIME last year, I took a close look at the major conferences, trying to deduce which teams were most likely to make the Final Four. I wrote something brilliant like I don't see any teams from the Southeastern Conference or Pac-10 that are good enough.
- The valiant fight of the people's horse and his caretakers touched manyWHY WERE so many attracted to Barbaro? Why were they so devoted? Why was yesterday a day they feared so much?
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AROUND THE CITY The Drexel deal Playing without leading scorer Frank Elegar (one-game suspension because he hit Delaware's Sam McMahon with an elbow the previous Saturday), the Dragons did much good against Colonial leader Virginia Commonwealth at the DAC. But they could not stop VCU down the stretch and lost, 75-68.
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YOU COULD MAKE a pretty good argument that Billy Packer is out of touch with some significant parts of the sport in which he is one of the most recognizable faces. He sort of proved that when he went on his anti-Missouri Valley Conference rant after the 2006 NCAA Tournament field had been announced.
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AROUND THE CITY 'Cats get ranked team again As much fun as Villanova's 102-point outburst against Notre Dame was to watch last Wednesday, the way the Wildcats beat Texas at the Wachovia Center is going to pay bigger dividends.
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IN THE YEAR OF the freshman big man, there is a throwback fifth-year senior up in Wisconsin putting up great numbers for a throwback coach from Chester.
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