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The first Preakness took place in 1873, joining the Belmont Stakes (which started in 1867). The inaugural Kentucky Derby was held in 1875, completing the trifecta. The Preakness is the shortest race of the three, with horses running 1 3/16 miles on Baltimore’s famous dirt track. The Kentucky Derby has the next shortest race track (1 1/4 miles) while the Belmont Stakes is the longest of the three races (1 1/2 miles)....

The modern phenomenon, and social media trend, sees expectant parents discovering whether their baby will be a boy or a girl via a color reveal in front of their friends and family. If the color blue appears then they are to have a son, and if it’s pink they will be welcoming a daughter. There have been many creative ways that people have performed a color reveal. It could be by popping a balloon, cutting a cake or, in the case of a recent viral video, deadlifting a weight....

Originally, the 2020-21 summer window was supposed to begin on June 10, closing on September 1. Due to Covid-19, however, it was forced to open on July 27, a day after the end of the Premier League season and it ended on October 5, 2020. Goal is on hand to bring you all the comings and goings across the Premier League through the season. Jump to… Arsenal Arsenal summer signings: Thomas Partey (Atletico Madrid) Pablo Mari (Arsenal) Cedric Soares (Southampton) Willian (Chelsea, free) Gabriel Magalhaes (Lille) Runar Alex Runarsson (Dijon) Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid, loan) George Lewis (Larvik) Tim Akinola (Huddersfield) Salah-Eddine (Feyenoord) Jonathan Dinzeyi (Tottenham)...

The 3-0 win signified the Gunners intentions to do as much as they can to secure a highest possible finish in the Premier League, even though manager Arsene Wenger has already admitted that their chances of overtaking their arch rivals Tottenham in fourth place are slim to say the least. The impressive victory in Milan was down to a committed team performance which feature disciplined midfield positioning from the triumvirate of Granit Xhaka, Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere....

The Tigers have been in superb form on their own turf under Marco Silva but suffered a shock 2-0 defeat that was compounded by Paul Clement’s men’s 1-0 triumph over the Toffees in the evening fixture. Hull boss Silva calls for calm Swansea are now out of the bottom three and a point ahead of Hull with two games to play. Here is your complete round-up of the goings on in England’s top tier this weekend....

After his hat-trick against Wolves, Haaland is well on his way to breaking the Premier League record, needing just 10 goals in the 18 matches remaining to eclipse the mark of 34 goals scored in a single season by Andy Cole and Alan Shearer. Haaland has scored in all but five of his 19 Premier League appearances to date. The City striker extended his lead over Harry Kane (16 goals) even further....

But hey, if it ends with a win over rival Chattanooga prep school Baylor Friday night, it was all worth it. 

Pinkerton’s pick: Oscar Taveras, OF, Cardinals. Taveras, our No. 1-ranked prospect, will probably be drafted as a starting OF in virtually every fantasy league under the assumption that he’s starting for the Cardinals on opening day. But the outfield in St. Louis is still crowded and Taveras was limited to just 46 games at Triple-A last year because of an ankle injury. I think he’ll start the year in the minors, so plan on stashing him until that midseason call-up....

Despite voting $17 billion in cuts last week, the House GOP hasn’t given up pork. Take the Republicans on Appropriations, who chose the recision targets. Almost $40 million survived in Louisiana, home of chairman Bob Livingston. Indiana’s John Myers saved $9.65 million. Pennsylvanian Joe McDade got $10.2 million, including money for an Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site. And Jim Bunn of Oregon rescued $6.5 million for a new visitors’ center in tiny Newport....

Where are we as a nation 18 years after this horrific act of terror? We are in Afghanistan, of course. The war in Afghanistan started on October 7, 2001 and has claimed the lives of 2,372 American service people, the most recent of whom, Sgt. 1st Class Elis Angel Barreto Ortiz, was killed just this past Thursday by Taliban terrorists. U.S. soldiers remain deployed without meaningfully outlined goals and no clear U....

Woods and Kuchar are the only unbeaten players in the Presidents Cup, teaming to win each of their three matches and helping stake the U.S. to a five-point lead at the end of play on Saturday. "This guy's a horse, holy cow," Kuchar said of Tiger. Horse, cow, Tiger, that's a melange of animals suitable for Jack Hanna and the renowned Columbus Zoo nearby. MORE: U.S. takes lead entering final day | Looking ahead to Sunday | Leaderboard via GolfDigest....

T-Team will take on Selangor at home in round 11 of the Super League on Wednesday, with both sides having already secured their Malaysia Cup spots. Although the Red Giants (16 points) are in fourth and the Titans are in seventh in the standings, both sides are only separated by three points, and a win for the home side may see them leap to as high as the fifth spot, depending on the results of the matches involving Perak and Kelantan....

Osbourne, wife of musician Ozzy Osbourne and a reality television veteran, made the comments on Rupert Murdoch owned TalkTV’s new panel show titled The Talk. Sharon Osbourne signed on to present the program following her acrimonious departure from CBS’ talk show of the same name in 2021, after her on-air defense of Piers Morgan who claimed not to “believe a word” of Meghan Markle’s 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey....

The Duke of York has been accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl trafficked for him to London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the early 2000s. Virginia Giuffre has a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II’s son with his arm around her at Ghislaine Maxwell’s home in London, which she has included as evidence. The image is just one of many subjects that she will likely be questioned on when the duke’s lawyers, Andrew Brettler and Melissa Lerner, sit down with her in April....

Virginia Giuffre says she was forced by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to have sex with Queen Elizabeth II’s son in London, New York and on the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Duke of York quit public life after a BBC interview in November 2019 in which he dismissed her account of meeting him and denied the accusations. Since then the U.S. Department of Justice put in a formal request for him to give evidence to the F....

The Duke of York is facing mounting legal bills in a lawsuit accusing him of raping a Jeffrey Epstein trafficking victim when she was 17. He denies the allegations. The royal has been trying to sell the cabin, in Verbier, since 2020 but was sued by its former owner in the Swiss courts over an unpaid debt. U.K. newspaper The Sun last week reported he has found a buyer but has not yet completed the sale, an account confirmed by Newsweek....

People willing to defend the Duke of York may be few and far between but one prominent figure has spoken out on his behalf, Conrad Black. The Canadian-born British businessman’s company Hollinger in the 1990s was said to be the third largest in the world and controlled both the Chicago Sun-Times and Britain’s Daily Telegraph, among others. He was convicted of fraud and spent three years in jail in 2012 before being pardoned by the former U....

Britain’s next king called for a new “Marshall-like plan,” referencing $12 billion of funding injected into western Europe by the U.S. to rebuild after World War Two. His pre-recorded words were the keynote address for the opening of Climate Week NYC in New York today, the only major summit on the issue scheduled this year. The heir to the British throne said climate change “is now rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the pandemic....