What The Belmont Didn't Tell You — But We Will
A Belmont Week Review: The Good, The Bad, and The Unsaid Saratoga Race Course hosted the Belmont Stakes for the third and final time this past weekend, and if you watched only the broadcast you saw something genuinely beautiful, a storied venue, a competitive field, a thrilling finish, and a production worthy of the occasion. Golden Tempo, trained by Cherie DeVaux, added a Belmont to his Kentucky Derby and cemented a place in racing history. Past The Wire watched the same race. We also watched the data, the texts, the...
If the NBA Can See It, So Can Horse Racing
The case for AI officiating has arrived. It's time for racing to stop pretending the technology doesn't exist Adam Silver was sitting across from Pat McAfee a few days ago when he essentially announced that professional basketball was done pretending human beings could handle every call in real time. "We're going to move to a system like [Hawk-Eye] where that whole category of calls will be automatic," Silver said, referencing the aftermath of a widely condemned officiating blunder in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals, a moment where replay...
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPLICITY: What NBC’s Preakness Broadcast Reveals About Racing’s Deepest Malady
The Science of Looking Away What Psychology and Sociology Tell Us About the Participants — and the Institutions That Protected Them Today, as I watched the NBC national telecast of the Preakness Stakes, I witnessed a masterclass in corporate damage control. Deep into the broadcast, the production truck finally got around to addressing the radioactive elephant in the room: Irad Ortiz Jr. and Jose Ortiz. Two weeks ago, these two brothers engaged in a thrilling, heart-pounding stretch battle to finish one-two in the most exciting two minutes in sports, the...
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Kentucky Derby 1-2 finishers Golden Tempo, Renegade rematch in Belmont Stakes pres. by NYRA Bets
Golden Tempo storms home to post emphatic victory in 158th Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets
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