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One of the reasons Wales was able to end a 58-year tournament drought and qualify for the European Championship this summer was its ability to take four of a possible six points from Belgium during qualifying. The Red Dragons scraped out a 0-0 draw on the road, and Gareth Bale pounced on a mistake by…
With the final night of the Churchill Downs spring meet being held Saturday, the Kentucky thoroughbred racing industry moves its attention to Henderson with Saturday afternoon’s start of the Ellis Park meet. The meet, which lasts 30 days (July 2-September 5), returns 10-time Churchill Downs leading rider Corey Lanerie. Riding the past two summers at…
The 22-year-old McCarthy came from behind to take six winners over the past three days during closing weekend at Baltimore-based Pimlico Race Course to earn his second consecutive meet title in Maryland this season. Live racing moves from Pimlico to Laurel Park beginning this Friday, July 1. “It’s awesome. It’s a great feeling, especially because…
History dictates anything with England once it gets to the knockout round of a major tournament is fraught with peril. Missed penalty kicks (see quarterfinals, 2006 World Cup and 2004 Euros) and petulant red cards (Hi, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney!) serve as road marks on now 50 years of misery since the Three Lions…
There is a clear line of demarcation among the favorites and underdogs for the second day of round of 16 matchups at the European Championships on Sunday in France. It starts with the host country as Les Bleus face Ireland, which is out to avenge Thierry Henry’s notorious handball that helped eliminate The Boys in…
There really are no secrets left for all four teams playing Saturday and Sunday in the Copa America consolation and championship matches in the United States. The undercard in Arizona features the host Yanks looking to avenge a 2-0 defeat to Colombia that opened the tournament. Both goals came on set pieces _ Cristian Zapata…
There are plenty of opportunities this weekend to find jockeys that will give you great value because of situations with some of the top jockeys in the nation. Whether they are hurt, suspended for traveling to ride in stakes at tracks that will not give them points in the game, if you pay attention you…
One of the challenges of selecting Cristiano Ronaldo and his $13,880 price tag is building around him since he essentially counts as two people with his salary. Yet in the final set of group matches at the Euro Championships, help in picking a DFS lineup for FanXT comes from an unlikely source: Italy. The Azzurri…
Goalkeeper: Petr Cech, Czech Republic ($7,750). There are a pair of quality options among the eight keepers in Cech and Poland’s Lukasz Fabianski, who is slightly lower priced at $7,340. Both are facing winless and scoreless teams in Turkey and Ukraine, respectively, but given the Turks have put only two shots on goal in two…
It was one of the most clinical destructions of any major tournament in recent memory, with Chile dismantling a well-regarded Mexico side 7-0 in the quarterfinals to move one step closer to repeating as Copa America champions. La Rojo simply overwhelmed El Tri as Eduardo Vargas ran rampant with four goals and the irrepressible Alexis…