Today is April Fool’s Day and baseball season opens today. We hope to see the Red’s in the World Series and that is no April Fool.  The Cubs went up two runs in the first inning to give their fans some new hope that usually fades away by June.

Oaklawn Park  has two weeks left and Keeneland opens Friday, so spring is here! It is 34 days to the Derby and this past Saturday and this coming Saturday’s preps are definitely shaking up the field. I don’t know about this new points, system, but it is there and that is what they are going by. Over the last ten years there have been numerous horses that have done well in the Derby including Mine That Bird and War Emblem who both won the Derby and would not have qualified to run under this point system. Food for thought.

I know most of you have watched the basketball games and especially the gruesome leg fracture to Kevin Ware. The good news is he is expected to make a full recovery and should be able to play in the 2014-15 season. Louisville did go on to win the game and will head to the final four in Atlanta next Saturday.

My team, the Buckeye’s decided to give Wichita State a big head start then tried to catch up and couldn’t get it done. Next year………

Only five months to football season.