Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra has been sold and turned over to another trainer. You might recall that the previous owner was dead set against allowing a filly (female horse) to race against colts (male horses). The new horses may reconsider this, and so it’s possible that the horse – which you’ll recall won the all-fillies Oaks, on the day before Derby – may race in the Preakness next weekend in Maryland. Calvin Borel, a Lousiville native who last weekend rode both Rachel and dark horse Derby winner Mine That Bird said that – if Rachel runs the Preakness and the new team gives him an option – he’d have to race Rachel instead of Mine. Rachel has won five straight races with Borel jockeying.
Published reports say that University of Louisville men’s basketball Coach Rick Pitino is considering jumping ship to the NBA’s Sacrament Kings. The Kings – formerly the Kansas City Kings – haven’t been good since Houston Rockets Coach Rick Adelman was their coach. Pitino has gone back and forth between the college and pro ranks during his career. He was the New York Knicks coach when I got to New York City in 1987, and he spent five years with the Boston Celtics in between coaching down the road from here at the University of Kentucky, before returning to Kentucky to the Wildcats’ arch rivals, the Louisville Cardinals. The local paper put this story on an inside page in the sports section, which makes me think they’re skeptical about the reports.
In an even more local sequence of events, it’s been a whole month – in the post-Oscar movies to the discount movie theater lull – that I’ve been to the closest of the two local discount movie theaters, Apex’s Village 8 Cinemas, on the other side of St. Matthews from our house (near the gym). We went there last night to see “Adventureland,” and – in the interim – a new manager apparently came in and got rid of the hot dog machine, which we used a lot, and cleaned house with the staff, as most of the staff people we talked with regularly (and during parts of the year we or I am there about twice a week) are gone – some of them involuntarily. (A week ago we picked up an Apex theaters job application from the sibling Baxter theater, but it looks like Vincent has let this opportunity – like others – slip away, since he hasn’t touched it). We’ll miss the hot dogs and the people we’ve liked.
Published reports say that University of Louisville men’s basketball Coach Rick Pitino is considering jumping ship to the NBA’s Sacrament Kings. The Kings – formerly the Kansas City Kings – haven’t been good since Houston Rockets Coach Rick Adelman was their coach. Pitino has gone back and forth between the college and pro ranks during his career. He was the New York Knicks coach when I got to New York City in 1987, and he spent five years with the Boston Celtics in between coaching down the road from here at the University of Kentucky, before returning to Kentucky to the Wildcats’ arch rivals, the Louisville Cardinals. The local paper put this story on an inside page in the sports section, which makes me think they’re skeptical about the reports.
In an even more local sequence of events, it’s been a whole month – in the post-Oscar movies to the discount movie theater lull – that I’ve been to the closest of the two local discount movie theaters, Apex’s Village 8 Cinemas, on the other side of St. Matthews from our house (near the gym). We went there last night to see “Adventureland,” and – in the interim – a new manager apparently came in and got rid of the hot dog machine, which we used a lot, and cleaned house with the staff, as most of the staff people we talked with regularly (and during parts of the year we or I am there about twice a week) are gone – some of them involuntarily. (A week ago we picked up an Apex theaters job application from the sibling Baxter theater, but it looks like Vincent has let this opportunity – like others – slip away, since he hasn’t touched it). We’ll miss the hot dogs and the people we’ve liked.
-- Perry
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Coach Pitino continues to deny these reports. To be fair to those reporting on them, two additional factors must be considered: Coach Pitino's longtime assistant coach and recruiter, who is also his son, recently left for the University of Florida (a sign that Dad himself might be on his way out?). And - more importantly - the estranged wife of another head coach has apparently accused the elder Pitino of sexually assaulting her. Pitino turned around and had her investigated and now charged with extortion when she turned around and demanded money for her silence about the accusations.
That was the estranged wife of another of his assistant coaches - not another head coach.
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