127,000 mint juleps are expected to be served at the Kentucky Derby this weekend. Yes, you read that right. Also:
- Beers: 522,360 served
- Derby pies: 46,500 slices served
- Jumbo shrimp: 28,300 pounds used
- Fresh berries: 460,000 pounds used
From For the Win.
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach.
Wootten helped shape modern high school basketball. He was the first high school coach inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and went 1,274-192 in his career. Pretty amazing.
Jason Collins made history Monday.
So much for stereotypes. Whatever any of us pictured when we thought of or heard the words “gay man,” we now have received a wonderful view of who that man actually is. Through Collins, we also have been given an enlightened and intelligent view about so many of our fellow citizens, neighbors, friends and role models.
If a tough, 7-foot NBA veteran can be gay, can’t just about any athlete be gay? Oh, and anybody got a problem with that?
It’s not just sports history that took place when Collins told Sports Illustrated his riveting, classy and courageous story. It’s U.S. history. Just as Jackie Robinson played such an important role in American racial integration, and Billie Jean King in the advancement of women’s rights, so too will Collins with the march to equal rights for gay Americans, and those around the world as well.
I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation.
Jason Collins
Sochi Olympics organizers will have stray dogs, cats killed to clean up city
The stray animals will be exterminated to ensure the safety of visitors and improve the city’s image, Sergei Krivonosov, a government official from Sochi, said in an interview with RBC Daily, a Russian business newspaper.
“It’s obvious that there should be no animals on the streets. We have responsibilities to the international community,” the lawmaker said. “Killing (the animals) is just a faster way to solve this task.” he said.
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The subject of what has become the iconic photo of Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing is 78-year-old Bill Iffrig.
After being helped to his feet, he finished the race.
The story: http://usat.ly/12iZyOR
(Photo by John Tlumacki, Boston Globe via AP)
Adam Scott has become the first Australian to win the green jacket, after beating Angel Cabrera of Argentina in a sudden-death playoff at the Masters in Augusta, Ga. Tiger Woods came up short again, tying for fourth.
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(Photo by Michael Madrid, USA TODAY Sports)
Cabrera, Snedeker share lead at Masters; Woods is back 3
USA Today Sports: Former winner Angel Cabrera shared the lead at Masters with Brandt Snedeker after Saturday’s third round with Tiger Woods still in the hunt.
Snedeker climbed into a share of the lead with a bogey-free 3-under 69, with birdies on 13, 15 and 16.
The story of the day, though, was the two-stroke penalty accorded Tiger Woods for an improper drop the day before.
Woods shot a 2-under 70 on Saturday, shaking off the penalty assessed before he went out to the first tee. Going into Sunday’s final round, Woods was three back of the co-leaders.
Photo: Tiger Woods at the Masters Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images
