Links for 2010-05-03
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Nice! "NBC Sports’ coverage of the Derby, won by Super Saver, earned the highest overnight rating for the race in 18 years, according to data from the Nielsen Company. The 10.3 overnight rating and 23 share for the race showed a gain of 1 percent over last year’s (10.2/22) and was up 7 percent from the 9.5/21 rating in 2008, when Big Brown cruised to victory. ABC earned a 10.9/23 rating when Lil E Tee won in 1992."
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More good news, despite problems: "Churchill reported a 7.8% increase in all-sources wagering handle on the Derby race itself to $112.7-million and a 4.3% wagering increase on the 13-race Derby card to $162.7-million."
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"The Louisiana-raised, late-blooming Mr. Borel is a charming quote dispenser, and last year he found himself celebrated, sometimes a bit patronizingly, as a supernatural horse whisperer. But he's not a shaman any more than Peyton Manning is. He's a champion and a pop star in a desperate but irresistible sport that most of us can't be bothered to watch for more five or six minutes a year."
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Tim Layden, gloomy. Too much rain? "That brief cycle begins anew on Saturday. The Derby will be grand and spectacular and compelling and there will be a great temptation to paint the scene as a celebratory renewal for racing, like it's been dunked in cleansing waters. Yet the reality feels somehow harsher this time, like a few days of greatness — whether in the present or culled from the past — can't keep saving racing. Like Churchill Downs is less a cathedral and more a museum."
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PA board members discuss the iPad and how they're using it for racing. Related:
iPad sells at twice the rate of iPhone. “Nearly one out of every 300 Americans already owns one of these devices.”
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"Never before have more critics written more or better words for more readers about more films. But already you are ahead of me, and know this is because of the internet…. Film criticism is still a profession, but it’s no longer an occupation. You can’t make any money at it." A Roger Ebert essay as relevant to modern turf writing as to film criticism.
Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 05/03/2010 @ 10:02 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter
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