Horse Racing Sentimentality

The amazing 12-length victory by Smarty Jones in The Preakness on Saturday has prompted Tony Kornheiser, of Pardon the Interruption fame, to lament about the good old days -- now gone forever -- when baseball, boxing and horse racing were the top American sports. Needed: One-Horse Power [washingtonpost.com].

Tony, you're getting really old if you're nostalgic about the 1940s and '50s. I think we're all much better off with the NFL, NBA, auto racing and the other sports that have surged in the past 40 years -- and yes, that includes NHL hockey!! Far more exciting, far less riddled with scandal and you don't have lots of old men wandering around trying to win that one, last big bet.

Yeah, it's nice to have an actual Triple Crown contender, one who has put in a performance rivaling Secretariat from 1973, but the old days are old because they're gone. Get over it.

 Posted by glenn