Dick Jerardi has been at the Daily News since 1985. Lead college basketball and horse racing writer. Write two columns per week during basketball season. Covered 20 Final Fours, every Triple Crown race since 1987 and every Breeders' Cup race since 1986. Have covered events as varied as the Summer Olympics, the NBA Finals, American League playoffs, NFL playoffs and the Rose Bowl. Write columns, features, game stories and takeouts on topics ranging from how the football betting line is formed to a portrait of the jockey who rode Secretariat.
Email Dick at jerardd@phillynews.com
Dick Jerardi: Gary Stevens had been retired for 7 years. It seemed like D. Wayne Lukas had been retired for even longer.
Dick Jerardi: Orb has been unbeatable since winning one of the strongest maiden races in history back in November at Aqueduct.
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From Ruffian to Orb
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Dick Jerardi: The family of Stuart Janney, co-owner of Orb, owned the doomed horse Ruffian.
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Goldencents is best bet in the Kentucky Derby
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Dick Jerardi: Goldencents is fast enough to clear the Kentucky Derby field in the first few hundred yards.
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Cards still team to beat
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Dick Jerardi: The team to beat heading to Atlanta has not changed since everybody started filling out their brackets two weeks ago.
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Back on the L-Train
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Dick Jerardi: It feels as if La Salle has come full circle, back to when Lionel Simmons' team 100 games in 4 years.
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Takeaways from NCAA tourney
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Dick Jerardi: After 52 games, this NCAA Tournament has produced the knowns, the unknowns and confirmation that Pac-12 champion Oregon was the most poorly seeded Big Six team in history.
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Jerardi's NCAA Tourney picks
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Dick Jerardi: Louisville is nobody's secret now. The Cardinals are exactly where their coach planned for them to be as the tournament gets under way.
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We have an NCAA favorite
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YOU COULD SEE it coming for weeks, but it took until around 2 hours before midnight on Saturday for it to become obvious that there is a favorite to win the NCAA Tournament. It was 7 minutes on the court at Madison Square Garden in the Big East Tournament
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25 years of March Madness memories
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Dick Jerardi: Some of my NCAA memories are vivid; others needed to be jogged by a look back at history. Like the best coaches say, it is about the journey. Here are some thoughts on my NCAA journey.
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Loss hurts La Salle
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Dick Jerardi: Not that much could go wrong for La Salle at Saint Louis unless the Explorers got blown out. They got blown out.
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Big East, A-10 won't be the same
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Dick Jerardi: They will have two conference tournaments in New York next week, one at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan and one at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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