There is no Kentucky Derby winner in this year’s Preakness Stakes but there are four horses who ran for the roses at Churchill Downs earlier this month — Improbable (fourth place), War of Will (seventh), Win Win Win (10th) and Bodexpress (13th) — competing in this year’s run for the Black-eyed Susans.
Not surprisingly, Improbable is the morning line favorite. Bob Baffert’s chestnut colt broke his maiden on the first try at Santa Anita then quickly went on to victory as a 2-year-old in a $100,000 stakes race at Churchill Downs and then again in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity at Los Alamitos Race Course. Read More...
Hurricane Ian has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph and is hours from making landfall, probably around Port Charlotte, Fla. Ian could reach Category 5 strength before landfall, but the storm will cause historic and catastrophic damage regardless of whether it strengthens further.
The dangerous storm already made landfall in western Cuba around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, killing at least two people and plunging the entire island of 11 million people into darkness after it was lashed with heavy rains, fierce winds and life-threatening storm surge. Read More...
In the original timeline of this contemporary Quantum Leap project, Addison is the leaper. According to Ian and Leaper X/Marine Richard Martinez (Walter Perez), society collapses after Addison starts leaping through spacetime and Quantum Leap is blamed for everything bad. Martinez then leaps to go back in time to kill Addison but not before coming up with the idea to nuke HQ. Ian leaps after Martinez to advise Ben and HQ is nuked after Ian leaps back home from their forewarning mission. Read More...