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It's Oaks Down in the River City and for those of you who are unfamiliar with the ways of Louisville, that means it's a holiday here and no one will be working, whether they go to the track or stay home and plant a garden.  The day has dawned with beautiful blue skies, sunshine and temperatures that are expected to hit 85 by...

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We've always known that there is a lot of money to be made on the Formula One circuit.  After all, Kimi Raikkonen finished third on the Forbes list of highest paid athletes in 2009 with $45 million, while finishing third in the Formula One standings that year.  In 2008, Lewis Hamilton, became the youngest driver to win a F1 championship and the first...

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There is no question that competing in the Champions League is very valuable to any club, from those eliminated in the first round to those who make the championship game.  The question is how much is it worth to make it into that championship final?  In 2009, it has been estimated that FC Barcelona's win was worth up about 110 million Euros, after...

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Now this is something I didn't expect to see and I suppose it's another example of the changed focus of the Cubs new owners.  The Cubs and the White Sox have gotten together and found a unique way to sell naming rights to the annual Crosstown Classic played as part of interleague play each summer.  The teams play two three game series, one...

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It's a rainy Monday in the Ville to start Derby Week and it's gloomier than usual around the Todd Pletcher barn. Pletcher, who has been the nation's leading trainer and his horses have won seven of the twenty-one graded prep races leading up to the Derby.  Going into last weekend, he had a possible eight horses that could be Derby entrants and that...

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Expect to see fewer schedules of English Premier League games in favorite newspaper or online site in the coming days as a British High Court has ruled that the fixtures are copyrighted by the English Premier League.  The EPL and four other bodies  brought the case against companies including Yahoo over their unlicensed use of fixtures (schedules to Americans). E ARTICLEURL The ruling is...

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There is certainly a lot of movement in and around sports betting in America these days.  I just recently wrote about the fantasy game being run by the Philadelphia Daily News allowing online fantasy gaming. In addition, a sports betting hedge fund is about to be launched in the UK, not unlike one proposed several years ago by Mark Cuban, although the newer...

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Following in the footsteps of Anneka Sorenstam, the woman she succeeded as the world's number one player, Lorena Ochoa announced her retirement from the LPGA tour.  While she didn't say so in the announcement, she has previously indicated a desire to spend more time with her husband and step-children and to have children of her own. I'm sure everyone involved in the LPGA...

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Brandon Knight is the consensus nunber one high school basketball player of this year's senior class and was perhaps the most sought after recruit this season.  He announced the other day that he would attend Kentucky, following the path to Calipari trod by Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans and John Wall.  That path, of course, includes playing point guard for Calipari for one year,...

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Yum! and its wholly owned subsidiary KFC bought naming rights to the new Louisville Arena for a relatively modest ten year $13.5 million, in a deal announced today by the company and the University of Louisville who will be the prime tenant in the arena.  Yum! Brands has its world headquarters in Louisville. In addition, Yum! Brands has the naming rights to the...

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Stan Kroenke, the billionaire by marriage owner of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche, not to mention a significant stake in Arsenal of the English Premier League, which we will get to later, has decided to exercise his option to purchase the equity interests in the St. Louis Rams which he did not own.  Kroenke currently owns 40% of the Rams, with the...

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The once unbreakable line against legal sports betting in this country continues to show significant cracks.  The latest breach appears in the online version of the Philadelphia Daily News.  The paper is offering an online fantasy gaming outlet called "Instant Fantasy Sports Games" in partnership with FanDuel.com, a British wagering company. Games are currently being offered for the NBA, NHL, and MLB.PARTICLEURL "We're...

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