Saratoga

Horse racing has two seasons. (Well, to observers, anyway -- to active participants it has one season that begins on Jan. 1 and ends on Dec. 31 and starts every day at 4 a.m. Cantankerous trainer Barclay Tagg told me...

It was legendary sports columnist Red Smith who, in a column, once offered his readers directions to Saratoga Race Course like this: "Drive about 175 miles north from New York City, take a left at Union Avenue and go...

Dieter is aghast to learn that the name on his jersey is a manufacturing company and not something else entirely, as his friend Hans had claimed. --Mike, Brookfield, Ill.

With temperatures reaching 100° in St. Louis last month, closer Jason Isringhausen paid $500 for two large fans, which he set up in the Cards' bullpen, and umpire Ed Montague tried to prep for a stint behind the...