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Millson: Derby outrage

Larry Millson, May 2, 2008 at 12:49 PM EDT

LOUISVILLE -- Well, well. It looks as if the shoe was on the other hoof this time.

Consider this item from a tip sheet named Indian Charlie that was being circulated Friday at Churchill Downs the day before the Kentucky Derby.

The lead item carried the headline: “Once again, ESPN shows their commitment to thoroughbred racing”:

The article reads: “When the Kentucky Derby Post Position Draw was taking place and scheduled to be shown live on ESPN2, they were instead showing a soccer match between Liverpool and Chelsea that ran into extra innings. But the match itself was over at eight minutes past the hour (5 p.m. Eastern) and the folks at ESPN2 chose to go with post-game comments and other such nonsense. The Derby Draw  was then shown on tape delay at 5:30. Luckily local station WHAS-TV carried the event live. Just  in case you were wondering, Chelsea came back late in the match to defeat Liverpool 3-to2.”

ESPN2 did show the Toronto FC-New York Red Bulls 1-1 draw Thursday night at BMO Field and the folks in Louisville could see it.

It appeared to be live.

  1. B I from Toronto, Canada writes: Good find.
  2. Random Person from Heard and Mc Donald Islands writes: I don't agree with horse races ...Period.
  3. Troy Kolar from Toronto, Canada writes: Keep those blogs coming Larry. 2 questions for you:

    What's up with TFC's lack of numerical depth? Only expansion San Jose has fewer players on their squad (by 1) and only 2 have just 26 (1 more than TFC). Everyone else has 27-29 players. Please tell me there's a method to dropping Boyens and Hemming and 'forcing' players like Cunningham and Dunivant to play in reserve matches? Is this a salary cap thing, a deliberate plan to only keep the best or most promising players? Or what?

    2nd question. Can you do an article or blog on the MLS plans to cap the number of teams at 18? What are they thinking?! This isn't the freaking Premier League or La Liga. We don't have 3 or 4 or 15 leagues below pushing for promotion. Or is that the plan? Will the USL and USL-2 become tiers and you can be promoted or relegated? If so, that would make the regular season pretty damn interesting. Otherwise, I'm thinking they should uncap the number of teams and let it grow to 30 or more just like the other big sports leagues in North America. What's your take?

    Merci ... Ciao ... Troy
  4. Random Person from Heard and Mc Donald Islands writes: Try...North America has enough population to have "10" professional leagues....

    Alberta and NWT are bigger{geographicaly} then entire Europe{including Russia}...that houses 800 million people and AB and NWT bearly 2 million....

    But North America with its 400 milion,including Mexico.... can do stuff as well...

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