Fortune 500 companies now back drag racing, and a poll last year by ESPN, the sports cable-television network, showed that the popularity of drag racing trailed only Nascar among motor sports.
But even if horse racing trails even the monarchy in the bleak future department, the Derby does still matter, writes John Clay of The Lexington Herald-Leader, because we're a nation that loves big events.
Jeter became the second-highest-paid athlete across all team sports and auto racing, trailing only Rodriguez.
I'm a recent convert to compression gear and I'm convinced the CompressSport Pro-Racing trail shorts and R2 calf guards helped keep my legs in working condition through 5,950m of ascent and descent – although I had to carry a pair of ¾-length running tights to meet the full-leg requirement.
The Holt's Ledge lift also brings skiers to Don Worden's Schuss, the race trail used by Dartmouth's decorated race team, the N.C.A.A. 2007 men's and women's ski champions.
"It's a visually stimulating course," Mr. Decker said of the 50-mile-long race trail, which rolls through deep woods and past the strange glacier-affected geology of the area, including kettles, kames, erratics and drumlins.
Leaving McCabe Creek, the race trail parallels a driveway and the Klondike Highway for several miles before turning north to cross the Pelly Burn, an area scorched by a wildfire in 1995.
We dedicate this purest-of-pure-horse-race Trail to the Chief edition to Jonathan Alter (now of The Daily Beast) and Mickey Kaus (now of The Daily Caller), who invented the prototype at Newsweek magazine back in the day.
Come the conclusion, Hamilton finished second to a team-mate for the first time in his single-seater racing career, trailing Jenson Button by 43 points.
Indeed, the old race trails haven't been touched, and there was an understated coexistence.
After coming into the race trailing Jarrett by just 14 points in the standing, Gordon fell 75 points back.
