Don Waddell

Last week Kent Desormeaux (above), Sweetnorthernsaint's jockey, issued a proclamation before the Preakness: "I guarantee I won't be worse than second." Desormeaux made good on his promise, placing 5 1/4 lengths...

A deadly car crash takes a heavy toll on a club just starting to show signs of progress

Two of the NHL's most senior referees, Terry Gregson, 48, and Paul Stewart, 47, were not chosen to officiate in the playoffs. NHL director of officiating Andy Van Hellemond was worried that Gregson and Stewart, who...

When Don Waddell, the general manager of the expansion Thrashers, was a 16-year-old growing up in Detroit, his mother, Jacqueline, phoned him one morning to tell him she had left her car on the side of a road because...