Rise of American Football in the Holy Land (Post Game)

 Reality TV comes to Liverpool (NYT)

 Conference rouletter rolls on; this time around it's the conferences other than the Big Six.(CBSSports)

 Perhaps baseball's best closer ever career may be coming to an end due to freakish accident (NYT)

Sacramento's continuing arena problems put Kings closer and closer to moving to Seattle (Seattle Times)via (SBN)

 X Games expanding to six cities on three continents for 2013 (Sports Business)

 Tanking, Incentives and the NBA (Sports Law Blog)

 Allegations against Billy Hunter of the NBPA and what it tells us about US labor law and player unions (Concurring Opinions)

 Minnesota governoralleges secret deal between Vikings and Republican legislators over new stadium for Vikings, paranoia? (Forbes )

Historic Calumet Farm, breeder of nine Kentucky Derby winners is sold for $35 million (C-J)

Another rivalry bites the dust; this time Kentucky-Indiana basketball game won't be played in dispute over location. Louisville would like to take Kentucky's place (abc11)

Should the US and Canada follow the rest ofthe world and ban race day medication? (C-J)

A classic long form look at the Derby from Louisvillian Hunter Thompson (Grantland)

Rosie Napravnik becomes first female jockey to win Kentucky Oaks aboard former Ky Governor's filly (DRF)

From the father of speed figures, it's Bodemeister in the Derby (DRF)