Tag: Horse Racing
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NBA Insider | One question for every Denver Nuggets starter
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Every week during the offseason, Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto will take you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets: The Denver Nuggets’ starting five is set, but there’s still some interesting questions to answer ahead of the start of the season. Jamal Murray: Can the regular season look like your postseasons? The highest-scoring…
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NBA awards: Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic early favorite for third MVP in four years
Last season, Nuggets star Nikola Jokic narrowly missed out on being the fourth player in NBA history to win three consecutive Most Valuable Player awards. The list remains a short one – Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird – after 76ers center Joel Embiid won last season’s award. This season, Jokic can join another short…
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Betting: Top picks for Belmont Stakes
The third jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown is up for grabs Saturday in the Belmont Stakes. Derby winner Medina Spirit is not going to be running after failing to take down the Preakness. In fact, only five horses who ran in the Kentucky Derby are wheeling back for the Belmont, and none of the…
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Betting: Medina Spirit remains favorite, but there is value in other picks
The first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown came with some controversy, but in the overall scheme of things it is not as big a deal as it might have seemed at first glance. The horse was not on anabolic steroids. His blood sample showed traces of a substance used to help decrease inflammation and…
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‘Mattress Mack:’ I’ll be back for another bet in Colorado Springs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Jim McIngvale, better known as “Mattress Mack,” has flown to the Colorado Springs Airport twice this year to make giant bets on major sporting events, and he expects to return this year or early next year to do it again. McIngvale, who owns Houston’s biggest…