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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/450394574.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/450394574-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Peruvian shamans perform a ritual of predictions for the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 in front of the National Stadium of Peru (Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peruvian shamans perform a ritual of predictions for the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 in front of the National Stadium of Peru. (Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nate Silver, the man who called the winner of 49 states in the 2008 presidential election,\u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-brazils-world-cup-to-lose/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> is predicting\u003c/a> that Brazil will be hard to beat in its home country when the 2014 World Cup starts Thursday in São Paulo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver’s \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/world-cup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FiveThirtyEight\u003c/a> website dissects the chances of all 32 teams, based on the Soccer Power Index, an algorithm he came up with four years ago in conjunction with ESPN. According to his meticulous calculations, Brazil is the overwhelming favorite, with a 45 percent chance of winning the World Cup for the sixth time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Argentina trails distantly behind as the second favorite, with a 13 percent chance of coming out on top, followed by Germany (11 percent) and Spain (8 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the United States? Silver is not optimistic. In fact, the statistician concluded that the U.S. has only a 0.4 percent chance of taking the cup — less than Bosnia-Herzegovina and the same as Switzerland, but better than 13 other countries, including Croatia and Cameroon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you enjoy sports, bets and gamble you should take a look to the \u003ca href=\"https://mega888.gold/\">mega888\u003c/a> online casino to check out all the games available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver, a former baseball analyst who earned his living for a time playing online poker, makes a persuasive case for Brazil:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Argentina, Germany and Spain, like Brazil, are wonderful soccer teams. You could perhaps debate which of the four would be favored if the World Cup were played on a hastily constructed soccer pitch somewhere in the middle of the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this World Cup is being played in Brazil. No country has beaten Brazil on its home turf in almost 12 years. Brazil’s last loss at home came in a friendly on Aug. 21, 2002. That game against Paraguay, incidentally, is one the Brazilians may not have been particularly interested in winning. Brazil had won the World Cup in Japan earlier that summer; the Paraguay match was the team’s homecoming. Although Brazil started most of its regulars, by midway through the game it substituted out almost all of its stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find a loss at home in a match that mattered to Brazil — in a World Cup qualifier, or as part of some other tournament — you have to go back to 1975, when Brazil lost the first leg of the Copa América semifinal to Peru. None of the players on Brazil’s current World Cup roster was alive at the time.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As of June 10 at 12:12 p.m., the U.S. team has a 34.5 percent shot at advancing through Group G, which also includes Germany, Ghana and Portugal, but only a 1-in-250 chance of winning the cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Silver does offer U.S. fans a shred of hope, noting teams that seem doomed occasionally thwart the odds. As an example, he cited the Villanova Wildcats, which he wrote had maybe a 1-in-800 chance of winning the 1985 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, based on past performance. And yet they still managed to win it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver quickly punctured any illusions, though, by emphasizing that this World Cup is top heavy, to the point that even strong teams such as England and Italy would be hard pressed to entertain thoughts of a championship. “This probably isn’t the tournament for Cinderella stories,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver said the probabilities are based on 10,000 simulations and will be updated at the end of each match. He explained the Soccer Power Index in detail, even as he noted the eye-glazing potential of “diagonal inflated bivariate Poisson regression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his pessimism about the prospects of the United States, Silver mentioned that he’s more upbeat than the current betting odds from \u003ca href=\"http://www.betfair.com/exchange/football/market?id=1.103163147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Betfair,\u003c/a> a betting market, which say that the team has only a 26 percent chance of advancing to the knockout stage, compared with his own calculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2073571-world-cup-2014-predictions-for-favorites-and-sleepers-in-all-groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleacher Report \u003c/a>also had very lower expectations for the United States, especially after Landon Donovan was left off the team. Instead, it predicted that Ghana could be the sleeper that might topple Germany in Group G. As for the Americans, “This could be a very rough World Cup for the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Jurgen Klinsmann, the U.S. coach, is not at all sanguine about how his team is likely to fare. Last December he told \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/magazine/how-jurgen-klinsmann-plans-to-make-us-soccer-better-and-less-american.html?_r=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a New York Times reporter\u003c/a>, “We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament. … Realistically, it is not possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting back to Brazil, Silver said the host country is not as heavy a betting favorite as it should be and added that, as of early Sunday evening, the team’s price on Betfair implied it has a 23 percent chance of winning the World Cup trophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What are other people saying about who will win the monthlong marathon, which ends July 13 in Rio de Janeiro?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the German team is widely viewed as a strong contender, Deutsche Bank is not picking Germany to win the World Cup, according to T\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/09/england-win-2014-world-cup-germany-deutsche-bank-analysts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he Guardian:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In what could be the biggest shock at this year’s World Cup since news that the Arena de São Paulo might be finished before kick-off, England (is) predicted to win in Brazil — and the prophecy comes from Germany’s biggest bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreign exchange analysts at Deutsche Bank have developed a computer model that forecasts Roy Hodgson’s squad can see off challenges by several more fancied outfits — albeit by using some questionable metrics.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-09/economists-as-soccer-pundits-predict-brazil-world-cup-win.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg News survey\u003c/a> of economists in 52 countries concluded that Brazil would beat Germany in the championship game at Maracana Stadium, and also score the most goals in the tournament. The poll, published today, heard from 171 economists in 139 companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bloomberg News survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Projections of a sixth World Cup victory for Brazil mesh with bookmaker odds and forecasts based on economic models created by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., UniCredit SpA and Danske Bank A/S. Paddy Power Plc and Ladbrokes Plc both rank Brazil as favorite, at odds of 3/1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of hard to bet against Brazil — they have home advantage, the climate, crowd and recent record,” said Peter Dixon, a poll participant and global equities economist at Commerzbank AG in London. “It’s pretty obvious if you look at Brazil’s soccer rankings who should win.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a six-person roundtable at Sports Illustrated/SI.com gave Argentina the nod, picked by three reporters. Two others selected Brazil and one went for Spain, despite the fact that a European team has never won a World Cup in the Americas, as one writer noted. Among \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27679577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC pundits,\u003c/a> Brazil topped Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.economist.com/blogs/gametheory/2014/06/predicting-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Economist\u003c/a> also predicted a Brazilian victory:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Your correspondent also sought the wisdom of his colleagues: asking them to select the winner, runner-up, third, and fourth semi-finalists; and attach a probability to each of the top-four teams’ chances of winning the tournament. 41 journalists submitted coherent predictions. Aggregating the probabilities (and making some assumptions about the teams not listed in the top four) again puts Brazil favourites, with a 23% chance of winning. 29% of respondents expect a Brazil-Argentina final, with the most likely result a two-nil victory to Brazil.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver’s Soccer Power Index did a lot of research on whether travel distance would have an effect on a team’s performance — whether Uruguay, for instance, would have an edge over Russia or Japan. The results were ambiguous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We found, first of all, that east-west distance traveled matters much more than north-south distance. In other words, any geographic advantage may reflect the avoidance of jet lag rather than the mere fact of being close to home. However, we also found that while the travel effect was reasonably significant when evaluated based on all World Cup matches dating back to 1952, it’s been much less significant in competitive matches taken from the era for which SPI has highly detailed data (from late 2006 onward).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver, a former baseball analyst who earned his living for a time playing online poker, makes a persuasive case for Brazil:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Argentina, Germany and Spain, like Brazil, are wonderful soccer teams. You could perhaps debate which of the four would be favored if the World Cup were played on a hastily constructed soccer pitch somewhere in the middle of the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this World Cup is being played in Brazil. No country has beaten Brazil on its home turf in almost 12 years. Brazil’s last loss at home came in a friendly on Aug. 21, 2002. That game against Paraguay, incidentally, is one the Brazilians may not have been particularly interested in winning. Brazil had won the World Cup in Japan earlier that summer; the Paraguay match was the team’s homecoming. Although Brazil started most of its regulars, by midway through the game it substituted out almost all of its stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find a loss at home in a match that mattered to Brazil — in a World Cup qualifier, or as part of some other tournament — you have to go back to 1975, when Brazil lost the first leg of the Copa América semifinal to Peru. None of the players on Brazil’s current World Cup roster was alive at the time.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As of June 10 at 12:12 p.m., the U.S. team has a 34.5 percent shot at advancing through Group G, which also includes Germany, Ghana and Portugal, but only a 1-in-250 chance of winning the cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Silver does offer U.S. fans a shred of hope, noting teams that seem doomed occasionally thwart the odds. As an example, he cited the Villanova Wildcats, which he wrote had maybe a 1-in-800 chance of winning the 1985 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, based on past performance. And yet they still managed to win it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver quickly punctured any illusions, though, by emphasizing that this World Cup is top heavy, to the point that even strong teams such as England and Italy would be hard pressed to entertain thoughts of a championship. “This probably isn’t the tournament for Cinderella stories,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver said the probabilities are based on 10,000 simulations and will be updated at the end of each match. He explained the Soccer Power Index in detail, even as he noted the eye-glazing potential of “diagonal inflated bivariate Poisson regression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his pessimism about the prospects of the United States, Silver mentioned that he’s more upbeat than the current betting odds from \u003ca href=\"http://www.betfair.com/exchange/football/market?id=1.103163147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Betfair,\u003c/a> a betting market, which say that the team has only a 26 percent chance of advancing to the knockout stage, compared with his own calculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2073571-world-cup-2014-predictions-for-favorites-and-sleepers-in-all-groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleacher Report \u003c/a>also had very lower expectations for the United States, especially after Landon Donovan was left off the team. Instead, it predicted that Ghana could be the sleeper that might topple Germany in Group G. As for the Americans, “This could be a very rough World Cup for the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Jurgen Klinsmann, the U.S. coach, is not at all sanguine about how his team is likely to fare. Last December he told \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/magazine/how-jurgen-klinsmann-plans-to-make-us-soccer-better-and-less-american.html?_r=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a New York Times reporter\u003c/a>, “We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament. … Realistically, it is not possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting back to Brazil, Silver said the host country is not as heavy a betting favorite as it should be and added that, as of early Sunday evening, the team’s price on Betfair implied it has a 23 percent chance of winning the World Cup trophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What are other people saying about who will win the monthlong marathon, which ends July 13 in Rio de Janeiro?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the German team is widely viewed as a strong contender, Deutsche Bank is not picking Germany to win the World Cup, according to T\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/09/england-win-2014-world-cup-germany-deutsche-bank-analysts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he Guardian:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In what could be the biggest shock at this year’s World Cup since news that the Arena de São Paulo might be finished before kick-off, England (is) predicted to win in Brazil — and the prophecy comes from Germany’s biggest bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreign exchange analysts at Deutsche Bank have developed a computer model that forecasts Roy Hodgson’s squad can see off challenges by several more fancied outfits — albeit by using some questionable metrics.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-09/economists-as-soccer-pundits-predict-brazil-world-cup-win.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg News survey\u003c/a> of economists in 52 countries concluded that Brazil would beat Germany in the championship game at Maracana Stadium, and also score the most goals in the tournament. The poll, published today, heard from 171 economists in 139 companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bloomberg News survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Projections of a sixth World Cup victory for Brazil mesh with bookmaker odds and forecasts based on economic models created by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., UniCredit SpA and Danske Bank A/S. Paddy Power Plc and Ladbrokes Plc both rank Brazil as favorite, at odds of 3/1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of hard to bet against Brazil — they have home advantage, the climate, crowd and recent record,” said Peter Dixon, a poll participant and global equities economist at Commerzbank AG in London. “It’s pretty obvious if you look at Brazil’s soccer rankings who should win.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a six-person roundtable at Sports Illustrated/SI.com gave Argentina the nod, picked by three reporters. 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"content": "\u003cp>California Chrome co-owner Steve Coburn has offered a tearful apology for his post-Belmont Stakes complaining about the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Chrome \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/05/california-chrome-get-lucky-triple-crown\" target=\"_blank\">finished a disappointing fourth\u003c/a> on Saturday, ending hopes for horse racing's first Triple Crown in 36 years. Coburn \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/california-chrome-owner-angry-rant-belmont-24053547?tab=9482931§ion=4765066\" target=\"_blank\">appeared with his wife on \"Good Morning America\u003c/a>\" today, saying he felt \"very ashamed\" for his comments, which did not exactly portray him as a picture of sportsmanship. In a live post-race interview Saturday, Coburn complained it was unfair that horses who have not raced in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, and are thus fresher, are allowed to race in the Belmont Stakes. Belmont winner Tonalist did not run in either the Derby or the Preakness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the coward's way out,\" Coburn said. \"Our horse had a target on its back. Everybody else lays that one, or they won't run in the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness. They'll wait until the Belmont. You know what, if you've got a horse, run him in all three.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/california-chrome-owner-steve-coburn-belmont-race-losing-24047737\" target=\"_blank\">stood by his comments\u003c/a> on ABC News Saturday, saying he did not regret them \"one bit.\" ESPN called Coburn's remarks a \"\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/11051222/a-tactless-tirade-belmont-stakes\" target=\"_blank\">tactless tirade\u003c/a>,\" and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Not-even-owner-s-rant-diminishes-story-of-5536827.php\" target=\"_blank\">other commentators\u003c/a> called it a bad case of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nj.com/horse-racing/index.ssf/2014/06/izenberg_rant_by_chromes_owner_steve_coburn_is_nothing_more_than_sour_grapes.html\" target=\"_blank\">sour grapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, Coburn was contrite, saying he was \"very ashamed of myself.\" Breaking into tears at one point, he apologized to everybody associated with Belmont winner Totalist, to his co-owner, his trainer, California Chrome fans, his wife, and to \"all the horse racing in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe style=\"border: none\" src=\"http://abcnews.go.com/video/embed?id=24053547\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W0QPnSv2_0&w=560&h=315\" target=\"_blank\">Coburn's original comments\u003c/a> ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W0QPnSv2_0&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here is his \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/california-chrome-owner-steve-coburn-belmont-race-losing-24047737\" target=\"_blank\">unapologetic follow-up\u003c/a> the day after, in which he called for horses to be required to run in the other two Triple Crown races in order to qualify for the Belmont. He likened horses that run in the Belmont alone against horses who run all three races to a grown man \"playing basketball with a child in a wheelchair.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe style=\"border: none\" src=\"http://abcnews.go.com/video/embed?id=24047737\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/495534789.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-138170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/495534789-640x431.jpg\" alt=\"California Chrome, with exercise rider Willie Delgado up, at Belmont Park. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Chrome, with exercise rider Willie Delgado up, at Belmont Park. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 pm Saturday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Chrome failed to win the Triple Crown, finishing fourth to a horse named Tonalist. California Chrome suffered a gash to his right front foot, possibly at the start of the race, which may have impacted his effort. His trainer says the injury is not serious. Chrome's co-owner, \u003ca href=\"http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/06/california-chrome-owner-triple-crown-belmont\">Steve Coburn told NBC Sports in an emotional post race interview\u003c/a> that he doesn't think any horse will win the Triple Crown in his lifetime. Coburn said it was cowardly for some owners to have their horses to sit out one of the Triple Crown races, in order send a fresh horse to try and take down his horse which competed in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Tonalist, the winner, did not race in the Derby or Preakness. The heavy favorite was running his third tough race in a 5-week span. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nj.com/horse-racing/index.ssf/2014/06/belmont_stakes_2014_twitter_reacts_swiftly_to_california_chrome_co-owner_steve_coburns_rant.html\">Coburn's comments were debated by fans on Twitter.\u003c/a> It has been 36 years since there was a Triple Crown winner. The last horse to do so was Affirmed in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday morning):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My non horse-racing friends are starting to check in now that the Belmont Stakes is near. They want to know if California Chrome can \u003cstrong>really\u003c/strong> win the Triple Crown. Yes, I say, with complete conviction. How do I know this? It’s not because the flashy chestnut from the Central Valley has drawn a good post position (2) for the race, or that he’s training like monster, or that he’s put on weight, even after a grueling series of races. It's not because Chrome’s breeding indicates he’s got just as good a chance as the next horse of staying the distance. And I’m not blindly rooting for him because of how uplifting it would be to see a horse from humble beginnings win The Sport of Kings coveted Triple Crown. Nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrome will win because of Lady Luck. Chrome’s team knows the importance of luck. All race trackers do. They know you can have the fastest horse in the race, the cleverest rider, winningest trainer, and hail from the richest bluegrass barn in Kentucky ... but luck is the factor you can’t control, at any level of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is probably why so many who make a living on the track are superstitious. I learned about this while working on the backstretch at Arlington Park outside of Chicago. Walking horses around in the early morning after they’ve exercised, you start to see what folks do to conjure luck. Avoid black cats, sure. But some folks refuse to eat peanuts in the barn. Others nail horseshoes right-side-up in doorways so their luck doesn’t run out. It’s institutional: Some tracks skip the number 13 when numbering their barns. No horse whatsoever will be found in barn 13 at one of the country’s most venerable tracks — Kentucky’s Keeneland. There wasn’t one at Arlington Park when I worked there either — I actually went looking for it, to make sure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/53764/racetrack-veterans-look-for-luck-in-odd-customs-and-beliefs\">(One trainer takes this to extremes.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrome's lucky talisman for the Triple Crown is a misspelled saddle blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you spell California Chrome? Well, in Kentucky, somehow it got spelled \"Califorina Chrome\" on his saddle blanket, and track officials presented that to the horse when he got to town. Some folks felt it was a slight, maybe done on purpose. Racing writers across the country smirked at Churchill Downs' error. It was embarrassing. Then Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness, did the same thing — on purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Because anything that's worked to get California Chrome to the winners' circle thus far should not be messed with. Chrome won the Kentucky Derby after getting that misspelled saddle blanket. Now it's part of the winning equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153195979&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Chrome arrived in the Big Apple to prep for the third leg of the Triple Crown, naturally, Belmont officials presented his owners with another misspelled saddle blanket. If — ahem — \u003cem>when\u003c/em> he wins, Team Chrome promises to autograph it and auction it for charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/belmont-officials-allow-california-chrome-to-wear-nasal-strip\" target=\"_blank\">nasal strip that caused a brief commotion\u003c/a> two weeks ago. If New York racing officials didn’t let Chrome wear the nasal strip, well then, said trainer Art Sherman, the owners might withdraw from the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perry Martin, he might not run if they say you can’t run with a nasal strip,\" Sherman said, referring to California Chrome's co-owner. \"He’s very funny about things like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.avma.org/News/JAVMANews/Pages/s021500e.aspx\">Nasal strips are not performance enhancing\u003c/a>, and the horse trains without it. So, you'd think his connections wouldn't go to the mat if he couldn't wear it. Thankfully, we never had to find out: Racing officials quickly changed that rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The luck of the possum?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the possum story. A possum scared a lot of people on the track one misty morning at Belmont. The marsupial started ambling across the race track while Chrome was galloping down the stretch. Most high-strung thoroughbreds would spook and possibly injure themselves. Everyone watching held their breath. The possum spooked the horse next to Chrome. But you can see in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85242/california-chrome-unfazed-by-opossum-on-track\" target=\"_blank\">the video from Blood-Horse\u003c/a>, Chrome remains oblivious to the possum. And I consider that very lucky, though assistant trainer Alan Sherman, says, heck, they have coyotes at Los Alamitos, so Chrome wasn’t going to be bothered by a little old possum, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=201lcDRo_dg&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85242/california-chrome-unfazed-by-opossum-on-track\" target=\"_blank\">More information at Blood-Horse\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you discount luck, there is good reason to believe California Chrome will be the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years — and the first ever California-bred to win it. The telltale sign is that he’s putting on weight, and he’s training like he wants more work. He's run a lot of hard races this year. Even good horses might get worn out, become less interested in racing and go off their feed. Not Chrome. He’s pulling his rider around the track in the mornings and still loving to run. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85396/california-chrome-sharp-in-final-belmont-work\" target=\"_blank\">Another video from Blood-Horse\u003c/a> showed his latest workout, which had onlookers raving about him — even some East Coast handicappers who pooh-poohed him before both the Derby and Preakness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9T7-PwGH0&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85396/california-chrome-sharp-in-final-belmont-work\" target=\"_blank\">More information at Blood-Horse\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a lot is going Team Chrome's way. And a lot of us want a little piece of that luck. A crowd of 100,000 is expected to show up at Belmont to see him run Saturday. The horse is happy and his humans remain almost naively happy. Every interview is upbeat, every comment about their horse a positive one. They just stand back and admire him, enjoying the ride. They know it’s all up to Chrome — and maybe that saddle blanket.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/495534789.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-138170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/495534789-640x431.jpg\" alt=\"California Chrome, with exercise rider Willie Delgado up, at Belmont Park. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Chrome, with exercise rider Willie Delgado up, at Belmont Park. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 pm Saturday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Chrome failed to win the Triple Crown, finishing fourth to a horse named Tonalist. California Chrome suffered a gash to his right front foot, possibly at the start of the race, which may have impacted his effort. His trainer says the injury is not serious. Chrome's co-owner, \u003ca href=\"http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/06/california-chrome-owner-triple-crown-belmont\">Steve Coburn told NBC Sports in an emotional post race interview\u003c/a> that he doesn't think any horse will win the Triple Crown in his lifetime. Coburn said it was cowardly for some owners to have their horses to sit out one of the Triple Crown races, in order send a fresh horse to try and take down his horse which competed in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Tonalist, the winner, did not race in the Derby or Preakness. The heavy favorite was running his third tough race in a 5-week span. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nj.com/horse-racing/index.ssf/2014/06/belmont_stakes_2014_twitter_reacts_swiftly_to_california_chrome_co-owner_steve_coburns_rant.html\">Coburn's comments were debated by fans on Twitter.\u003c/a> It has been 36 years since there was a Triple Crown winner. The last horse to do so was Affirmed in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday morning):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My non horse-racing friends are starting to check in now that the Belmont Stakes is near. They want to know if California Chrome can \u003cstrong>really\u003c/strong> win the Triple Crown. Yes, I say, with complete conviction. How do I know this? It’s not because the flashy chestnut from the Central Valley has drawn a good post position (2) for the race, or that he’s training like monster, or that he’s put on weight, even after a grueling series of races. It's not because Chrome’s breeding indicates he’s got just as good a chance as the next horse of staying the distance. And I’m not blindly rooting for him because of how uplifting it would be to see a horse from humble beginnings win The Sport of Kings coveted Triple Crown. Nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrome will win because of Lady Luck. Chrome’s team knows the importance of luck. All race trackers do. They know you can have the fastest horse in the race, the cleverest rider, winningest trainer, and hail from the richest bluegrass barn in Kentucky ... but luck is the factor you can’t control, at any level of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is probably why so many who make a living on the track are superstitious. I learned about this while working on the backstretch at Arlington Park outside of Chicago. Walking horses around in the early morning after they’ve exercised, you start to see what folks do to conjure luck. Avoid black cats, sure. But some folks refuse to eat peanuts in the barn. Others nail horseshoes right-side-up in doorways so their luck doesn’t run out. It’s institutional: Some tracks skip the number 13 when numbering their barns. No horse whatsoever will be found in barn 13 at one of the country’s most venerable tracks — Kentucky’s Keeneland. There wasn’t one at Arlington Park when I worked there either — I actually went looking for it, to make sure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/53764/racetrack-veterans-look-for-luck-in-odd-customs-and-beliefs\">(One trainer takes this to extremes.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Now it's part of the winning equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153195979&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Chrome arrived in the Big Apple to prep for the third leg of the Triple Crown, naturally, Belmont officials presented his owners with another misspelled saddle blanket. If — ahem — \u003cem>when\u003c/em> he wins, Team Chrome promises to autograph it and auction it for charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/belmont-officials-allow-california-chrome-to-wear-nasal-strip\" target=\"_blank\">nasal strip that caused a brief commotion\u003c/a> two weeks ago. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Samantha Clark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137500\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/8111794267_a67ca672f0_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-137500\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/8111794267_a67ca672f0_b-640x395.jpg\" alt=\"The Silicon Valley Rollergirls play BADG Berkeley Resistance. (Mark Nockleby/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silicon Valley Roller Girls play BADG Berkeley Resistance. (Mark Nockleby/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate smells like nacho cheese, plus decades of sweat sealed into the leather of its roller skates and the peeling carpet. “There’s that smell,” someone said as he walked through the doors. Still, the place is cool, with arcade games, rattan '70s-era lamps and a disco ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose Skate on Blossom Hill is closing the doors Saturday, and people want to say goodbye. One woman walked her husband to the rink blindfolded for a surprise date at their old hangout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the first place Sam Carrington could go without parents. She and about 20 friends held a reunion at the rink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened inside these walls, stayed inside these walls,” Carrington said. “At San Jose Skate, it was the first time my lips touched someone else’s for the purpose of romance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrington also met her first boyfriend and then her first girlfriend at San Jose Skate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rink opened as Aloha Roller Palace in 1977, and since then it has hosted countless birthday parties and skating lessons. Now it’s slated for redevelopment as a retail space, said Don Imwalle, president of local developer Imwalle Properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bottom line is that there are just not a lot of people roller-skating,” he said. “While there are some passionate groups, there are not enough people who are patronizing the business to make it any way viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For skating groups, the loss of a rink leaves them without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten-year-old Sayer McDonald is a competitive inline skater on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Milpitas-Speed-Team/183193556230\">Milpitas Speed Team\u003c/a>. Her mother drove her to south San Jose three days a week for practice. The team’s old rink was demolished for housing, and now Sayer will have to practice outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wind blows, and there can be dog droppings,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate has also been home to \u003ca href=\"http://svrollergirls.com/\">the Silicon Valley Roller Girls\u003c/a> for seven years, which is raising $20,000 to secure a new space. The leagues are saying aloha to the rink by competing in a doubleheader on Saturday. The Silicon Valley Killabytes will take on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FaultlineDerbyDollz\">Faultline Derby Devilz\u003c/a> from Hollister, and the Silicon Valley Dot.Kamikazes will play the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaderbygirls.com/teams/berkeley-resistance\">Bay Area Berkeley Resistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Underground Rock Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-2000s, San Jose Skate was also home to the underground music scene. Local bands and big bands played metal and hard-core rock loudly, often featuring lots of blood-curdling, and unintelligible, screaming. However, when San Jose Skate stopped hosting shows in 2008, the scene died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137685\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/photo-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/photo-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Tucker and Matt Mrizek of North of the Woods play at San Jose Skate one last time. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-137685\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Tucker and Matt Mrizek of North of the Woods play at San Jose Skate one last time. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>High school students and 20-somethings came to hear music at the rink Friday and Saturday nights dressed in black and skinny jeans. They swung their arms in mosh pits, and the neighbors called the cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I told my parents I was going to a metal show, they would say, ‘No you’re not,’ ” said Andrew Tucker who went to the shows when he was in high school. “I could just say I’m going to the roller rink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That crowd is now grown up. Tucker teaches a freshman writing course at San Jose State, where he is also working toward his MFA in creative writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and hundreds of folks from the scene showed up to the rink this weekend for a farewell concert series featuring 17 out of 19 bands that reunited just to play one last time at the venue. Some bands even flew in members from other states to practice, and many practiced daily in the week leading up to San Jose Skate’s last breakdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate got them to pick up their guitars and drumsticks again. Tucker’s band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-of-the-Woods/147807758622609\">North of the Woods\u003c/a>, said that even though the shows now are over, they want to keep playing music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t played together in four years,” said Matt Mrizek, a guitarist in the band. “The show kind of kick-started us to get back in the swing of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Kutsenda, a former general manager, used to organize the shows. Now he runs his own online marketing company. But when he heard about San Jose Skate’s sale, he messaged all the bands and booked the lineup the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place that we’ll talk about for the rest of our lives. A lot of people won’t understand it, a lot of people won’t get it, but what we had here was sacred, too,” Kutsenda said. “We hear crazy stories about guys who, like I said earlier, picked up their first guitar because of a band or like, met their now-wife at San Jose Skate. We’ve heard crazy, crazy stories like that, and it just became ingrained with who we all were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kutsenda said that it was important to send off the rink with a proper farewell after being such a part of their adolescence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad because San Jose Skate’s closing is like the last nail in the scene’s coffin,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Samantha Clark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137500\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/8111794267_a67ca672f0_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-137500\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/8111794267_a67ca672f0_b-640x395.jpg\" alt=\"The Silicon Valley Rollergirls play BADG Berkeley Resistance. (Mark Nockleby/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silicon Valley Roller Girls play BADG Berkeley Resistance. (Mark Nockleby/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate smells like nacho cheese, plus decades of sweat sealed into the leather of its roller skates and the peeling carpet. “There’s that smell,” someone said as he walked through the doors. Still, the place is cool, with arcade games, rattan '70s-era lamps and a disco ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose Skate on Blossom Hill is closing the doors Saturday, and people want to say goodbye. One woman walked her husband to the rink blindfolded for a surprise date at their old hangout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the first place Sam Carrington could go without parents. She and about 20 friends held a reunion at the rink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened inside these walls, stayed inside these walls,” Carrington said. “At San Jose Skate, it was the first time my lips touched someone else’s for the purpose of romance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrington also met her first boyfriend and then her first girlfriend at San Jose Skate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rink opened as Aloha Roller Palace in 1977, and since then it has hosted countless birthday parties and skating lessons. Now it’s slated for redevelopment as a retail space, said Don Imwalle, president of local developer Imwalle Properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bottom line is that there are just not a lot of people roller-skating,” he said. “While there are some passionate groups, there are not enough people who are patronizing the business to make it any way viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For skating groups, the loss of a rink leaves them without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten-year-old Sayer McDonald is a competitive inline skater on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Milpitas-Speed-Team/183193556230\">Milpitas Speed Team\u003c/a>. Her mother drove her to south San Jose three days a week for practice. The team’s old rink was demolished for housing, and now Sayer will have to practice outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wind blows, and there can be dog droppings,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate has also been home to \u003ca href=\"http://svrollergirls.com/\">the Silicon Valley Roller Girls\u003c/a> for seven years, which is raising $20,000 to secure a new space. The leagues are saying aloha to the rink by competing in a doubleheader on Saturday. The Silicon Valley Killabytes will take on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FaultlineDerbyDollz\">Faultline Derby Devilz\u003c/a> from Hollister, and the Silicon Valley Dot.Kamikazes will play the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaderbygirls.com/teams/berkeley-resistance\">Bay Area Berkeley Resistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Underground Rock Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-2000s, San Jose Skate was also home to the underground music scene. Local bands and big bands played metal and hard-core rock loudly, often featuring lots of blood-curdling, and unintelligible, screaming. 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They swung their arms in mosh pits, and the neighbors called the cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I told my parents I was going to a metal show, they would say, ‘No you’re not,’ ” said Andrew Tucker who went to the shows when he was in high school. “I could just say I’m going to the roller rink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That crowd is now grown up. Tucker teaches a freshman writing course at San Jose State, where he is also working toward his MFA in creative writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and hundreds of folks from the scene showed up to the rink this weekend for a farewell concert series featuring 17 out of 19 bands that reunited just to play one last time at the venue. Some bands even flew in members from other states to practice, and many practiced daily in the week leading up to San Jose Skate’s last breakdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate got them to pick up their guitars and drumsticks again. Tucker’s band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-of-the-Woods/147807758622609\">North of the Woods\u003c/a>, said that even though the shows now are over, they want to keep playing music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t played together in four years,” said Matt Mrizek, a guitarist in the band. “The show kind of kick-started us to get back in the swing of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Kutsenda, a former general manager, used to organize the shows. Now he runs his own online marketing company. But when he heard about San Jose Skate’s sale, he messaged all the bands and booked the lineup the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place that we’ll talk about for the rest of our lives. A lot of people won’t understand it, a lot of people won’t get it, but what we had here was sacred, too,” Kutsenda said. “We hear crazy stories about guys who, like I said earlier, picked up their first guitar because of a band or like, met their now-wife at San Jose Skate. We’ve heard crazy, crazy stories like that, and it just became ingrained with who we all were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kutsenda said that it was important to send off the rink with a proper farewell after being such a part of their adolescence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad because San Jose Skate’s closing is like the last nail in the scene’s coffin,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/491849445.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136468\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/491849445-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"California Chrome, center, heads toward victory in the Preakness States at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. Disputed nasal strip is visible just above Chrome's nostrils. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Chrome, center, heads toward victory in the Preakness States at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. Disputed nasal strip is visible just above Chrome's nostrils. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday, 4:20 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Alex Helmick Reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=9074807®istry=T\">California Chrome\u003c/a>, the Central Valley racehorse capturing the nation’s attention, will be allowed to wear a nasal strip when he vies to become the first horse from California to win the \u003ca href=\"http://www.triplecrownraces.com/\">Triple Crown\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.belmontstakes.com/events/event.aspx?F_y=2014&F_m=6&F_d=06%2F07%2F2014&eventId=157\">146\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Belmont Stakes\u003c/a>, on June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, stewards at Belmont Park had banned the strips, which could improve air flow into the nostrils. But with such incredible attention and national-longing for a Triple Crown winner, officials didn’t have a choice but \u003ca href=\"http://www.nyra.com/belmont/joint-statement-from-the-new-york-state-gaming-commission-nyra-and-the-jockey-club-regarding-the-use-of-nasal-strips/\">to change the rule Monday\u003c/a>, said \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/joe_drape/index.html\">Joe Drape\u003c/a>, who covers horseracing for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/\">New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody in their right mind was going to let an arcane rule keep him from coming to Belmont Park and perhaps becoming the 12\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> winner of the Triple Crown, and the first since \u003ca href=\"http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/affirmed.asp\">Affirmed\u003c/a> did it way back in 1978.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/25/why-california-chrome-should-not-win-the-derby\">The story of California Chrome\u003c/a> is as compelling as his breathtaking wins in the first two legs of the Triple Crown: the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2014/05/03/137206/a_black_sheep_crashes_the_kentucky_derby?source=npr&category=u.s.\">Kentucky Derby\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqmQEA1i-0\">Preakness Stakes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His 77-year old trainer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/sports/horseracing/la-sp-preakness-dwyre-20140515-column.html\">Art Sherman\u003c/a>, had never had a Kentucky Derby start, let alone a Triple Crown candidate. The horse's bloodline is weak, especially compared to the horses that fetch millions of dollars for their prestigious heritage. And \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/25/why-california-chrome-should-not-win-the-derby\">the owners\u003c/a>, well they’ve never owned a racehorse before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sport that needs a shot in the arm,” said Drape. “People get excited. They want to see something, you know, that is truly great and that they haven’t seen for almost 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the horse with four white feet, which is apparently considered bad luck in horseracing, continues to defy his history and superstition. The underdog has become the favorite. Yes, California Chrome breaks all the rules, except the one at Belmont Park about wearing a nasal strip, stewards made sure of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Original post:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Rick Freeman\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — California Chrome can breathe easy — he'll be allowed to wear a nasal strip when he goes for the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belmont Park stewards cleared the horse Monday to use the strip he wore while winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York tracks have a rule prohibiting any equipment not specifically approved by stewards, and nasal strips were not on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement from the New York Racing Association and the state's Gaming Commission says three stewards unanimously gave approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strip worn by California Chrome during his six-race winning streak is thought to improve airflow through his nostrils. That will come in handy during the Belmont's grueling 1½ miles on June 7.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/169010277-640x409.jpg\" alt=\"The Preakness infield has long been a big party scene. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Preakness infield has long been a big party scene. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> California Chrome has won the Preakness, and now has a chance at the first Triple Crown by any horse in 36 years, since 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> This Saturday \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/25/why-california-chrome-should-not-win-the-derby\" target=\"_blank\">California Chrome\u003c/a> will race in the Preakness Stakes, continuing his chase for a spot in the history books after his Kentucky Derby win. Right now the horse is an overwhelming favorite, despite coughing a few times after his workout Thursday morning. Veterinarians have cleared him to race, saying the issue is a small blister in his throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the years that I worked at the Baltimore Sun, I was among the legions of reporters sent to Pimlico on a hot Saturday each May to cover the Preakness Stakes. In the Triple Crown trio of races, the Preakness is the one people often forget about. Lacking the snobbery and cachet of the Kentucky Derby and the historical significance of the Belmont Stakes, the role of the Preakness is often reduced to crushing our collective hopes for a Triple Crown winner. (To be fair, though, in the past decade three horses have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown, leaving even the honor of disappointing the masses to the Belmont Stakes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8f57064210f46fa1f35a72568c3d0794\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside Pimlico, the grandstands on the perimeter of the track are for the wine-and-cheese crowd, drawn to the Preakness by a love of racing, gambling or, more often, the social status associated with being there. Between each race, crowds spill inside the concourse to line up at the betting windows and grab a black-eyed Susan cocktail before returning to their seats for the next race. The cycle repeats every half hour, back and forth, all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the grandstands are for the serious racing fans, you might be tempted to call the infield the cheap seats, but really the people there have come for another reason altogether: live music and booze. For a journalist sent to document the wild spectacle of the whole event, Pimlico is like a custard-filled doughnut — the perimeter is fine and fluffy, but the good stuff is in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first year out, I made my way inside the track early, hoping to get the lay of the land before the crowds filled in. Passing under the racetrack through a tunnel, the infield came into view. Several stages dotted the landscape, a visible sign of how race organizers are working to turn the event into a legitimate music festival, not just a 10-hour drink-a-thon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136351\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-136351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/547404_853348665453_597722191_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"One of the best views of Pimlico is on top of the press box where journalists covering the races often take their lunch. (Photo courtesy of Stokely Baksh)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author on top of the Pimlico press box, where journalists covering the races often take their lunch. (Photo courtesy of Stokely Baksh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Can you take our picture?\" a woman whined, handing me her camera before hurrying back to a group of middle-aged women wearing denim shorts, halter tops and platform sandals. Each donned a wide brim hat, decorated with dollar-store tchotchkes like plastic fruit, a rubber ducky and artificial flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I waved the group into place and steadied the camera. \"One ... Two ...,\" I called out just as one woman pulled down her top, baring her breasts. \"Wooooo!! Go Shannon!\" another woman screamed as she poured a beer over her friend. \"Heck yeah,\" bellowed a man walking by. \"Three ...\" I said, as the shutter clicked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Welcome to the Preakness,\" a colleague told me later as I recounted the story. “Just wait until things really get started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowdy infields are certainly not unique to the Preakness. When I was in college, frat boys and their sorority girl dates would make a pilgrimage every year to the Kentucky Derby infield, returning sunburned and worn out with tales that usually ended with the phrase, “… and then I passed out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Preakness infield is its own Baltimore variety of crazy. Freakness, some call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than Cinco de Mayo, New Year's Eve or St. Patrick’s Day, the Preakness is the high holy day of binge drinking for Maryland’s party-inclined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A favorite tradition is the Porta-Potty Run (or the Toilet Run, as we journalists are trained to call it since Porta-Potty is a name brand.) Once everybody is sufficiently drunk, the bravest are hoisted on top of the long rows of portable toilets and sent to run from john to john — racing the guy on the adjacent row of potties. 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