Word: bob
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...spotlight shone on Sahadi during the post position draw for the Santa Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling...
Deciding that spending time with Bob Costas in the NBC booth was a little too much fun for his own good, former Lakers coach Pat Riley joined the New York Knicks in hopes of turning a former 50-win team in the '80s into a championship contender. If there was a defining moment and turning point for modern Knick basketball, it came the following June in the 1992 Eastern Conference semis...
...carrying only the flags of America and South Carolina. In the spirit of 1960s civil rights marches, this walk gave a more accurate picture of contemporary South Carolina--diverse, inclusive and progressive. A remarkably broad group of churches, labor unions, Republicans, Democrats, the state Chamber of Commerce, and even Bob Jones University called for the removal of the flag. Clearly, the confederate flag does not represent the sentiment of most South Carolinians, and does not accurately reflect today's South Carolina...
...BOB O'REAR (8), chief mathematician. Now: cattle rancher; EW: $100 million...
...BOB WALLACE (9), production manager-designer. Now: psychedelic-drug advocate; EW: $5 million...