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After two favorites, 150th Derby is wide open

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Fate has not been kind to Mike Repole in the Kentucky Derby. The outspoken owner is 0 for 7, although he is perhaps best known for his two champions that never made the starting gate. In 2011, Uncle Mo was scratched the day before the race because of a gastrointestinal infection. Last year, Forte was scratched the morning of the race due to a bruised right front foot. Now, the self-made billionaire from Queens, New York, is back with Fierceness, the morning-line favorite for Saturday’s 150th Derby. The bay colt was last year’s 2-year-old champion and is ...

Thorpedo Anna goes wire to wire to dominate Kentucky Oaks

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thorpedo Anna capped her biggest victory with one impressive burst. The filly went wire to wire in the 150th Kentucky Oaks on Friday, pulling away from a charging Just F Y I to win by 4 3/4 lengths in the slop at Churchill Downs. Thorpedo Anna’s quick splits in her longest race over a muddy surface made it even better for trainer Kenny McPeek. “I felt really confident, even the first half-mile,” McPeek said, crediting breeder and co-owner Judy Hicks. “She’s just fast. Judy’s bred a beautiful filly here, and she’s got gear on top of ...

Vancouver advances to second round, beating Predators, 1-0

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vancouver coach Rick Tocchet told Pius Suter to keep shooting. Suter did just that, and it paid off. Suter scored with 1:39 left and the Canucks advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Friday night in Game 6. “If you keep going to those spots, it’ll happen, and it happened for Suits and big game- winning goal for us,” Tocchet said about the forward who had three of his five shots in the third. Nashville had a final chance to force overtime with a power play with 33.9 seconds left after Elias ...

Man who bragged that he ‘fed’ an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison

The Associated Press WASHINGTON—A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection. Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him—head first and face down—into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted in a text message that he “fed him to the people.” Roughly 20 minutes later, Whitton tried to pull a second ...

Knicks advance to the Eastern Conference semis, topping 76ers

PHILADELPHIA — With a frenzied Philly crowd clamoring for defense, Josh Hart hesitated for just a second after Jalen Brunson passed him the ball from the left wing before Hart realized the 76ers weren’t playing any D on him. Left alone at the top of the arc, Hart let it fly. “I was able to get my feet set and just shoot an open uncontested shot,” he said. Hart raised his arms and extended three fingers on each hand on his go-ahead 3-pointer with 24.4 seconds left that was finally enough to help send the New York Knicks past the Philadelphia 76ers 118-115 in Game 6 on ...

Pacers celebrate 1st playoff series victory in a decade

INDIANAPOLIS — T.J. McConnell and Obi Toppin complemented one another’s play perfectly Thursday night. They were still trading fist bumps long after the Indiana Pacers celebrated a rare series-clinching victory. Toppin scored 21 points, McConnell added 20 points and nine assists and they led the Pacers to a 120-98 rout over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 6. They will face New York — a 118-115 winner over Philadelphia late Thursday — in their first Eastern Conference semifinal in a decade. “It means a lot,” McConnell said. “Not getting into the playoffs since the bubble, ...