Chuck Culpepper

Horse racing depends on immigrants who are suddenly working in fear The backbone of an American industry is the workers who care for racehorses around the clock at tracks across the country. Can a coalition of powerful stakeholders protect them?

As horse people and congresspeople strive anew for political solutions, the immigrants who sustain horse racing toil in searing fear and constrained mobility.

Murray State reaches College World Series as underdog and emblem The Racers open play in Omaha on Saturday against UCLA, and their unlikely journey embodies the wonder of sports.

Murray State!

It's an epitome of the era of fast roster-building, and just look at the humongous list of community colleges in the player bios.

It's also an epitome of why we bother watching sports.

#CollegeWorldSeries #CWS

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Road teams are 6-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinals of the #NBAPlayoffs, meaning that to help out their teams, all home fans should sell their tickets to road fans

At a Kentucky farm, star racehorses help people fight a monster: Addiction The Stable Recovery program at Taylor Made Farm changes lives with the remarkable healing power of animals.

A project about an old topic about which humanity still learns, with brilliant photos from @michaelswensen.bsky.social

I just never would have imagined Roger Goodell would become such an accomplished, extraordinary hugger. #NFLDraft

I found myself hoping for a #Thunder stop at 131-80 because winning by fewer than 50 would have been so inappropriate.

He's a good lad.

Has any contestant an any sporting event ever showed so many turns of big guts and so many turns of human frailty, both things, back and forth, in the same competition? #TheMasters

The best place to watch this #MastersSunday and #Rory would be aboard a jet because airsickness bags are readily available

Queasiness. #Rory #Masters

Large bonus to Nicklaus 1975 footage on CBS: Vin!

If they had a #Masters prop bet that Rory McIlroy would have a two-shot lead, a one-shot deficit, a tie and a three-shot lead, all within the first four holes, that would have been a sound bet for those who bet.

March Madness does its thing, and Houston is left wishing it hadn’t Florida rallies from a 12-point deficit to win the NCAA men’s basketball championship, leaving the Cougars just shy of their first title.

Before its annual curtain dropped, @marchmadnesswbb.bsky.social provided one final example of how it’s a justly beloved wonder but also a mean old coot www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

In a Final Four classic, Houston rallies in the final seconds to topple Duke The Cougars’ miracle comeback shocks the favored Blue Devils and sets up an unexpected championship game matchup against Florida.

Houston vs. Duke ended last evening approaching midnight, except that its life has only just begun. #FinalFour #Houston

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Duke advances to 18th Final Four — and tries to make it harder to hate Duke The Blue Devils were dominant in the East Region final Saturday night, pulling away from Alabama for an 85-65 victory.

In a culture known to practice a dislike for Duke, here's a Duke team where if you don't like #Duke, you don't like basketball.

With the eight seedings adding up to a puny 13, only one more than the minimum possible, is this the chalkiest #EliteEight since the seeding system began in 1985? No! It ties #MarchMadness 2007 with four No. 1s, three No. 2s and one No. 3.

As #Alabama sets the record for most threes in a #MarchMadness game (22), raise a glass to the fact the Loyola Marymount record stood for 35 Marches

With 15:59 left, Marc Sears has 7 threes and #RollTide has 14, too soon to talk about Madness men’s records except that talking about them involves maybe the most remarkable Madness score ever (from 1990): Loyola Marymount 149, Michigan 115 (21 LMU threes, Jeff Fryer 11)

The first foul of the Alabama-BYU game arrives with 12:40 left in the first half. We’ll pause now for a brief ceremony on which the refs get medals and cookies. #MarchMadness

Nothing defines March Madness like the Parade of the Sad Locker Rooms All but one team exits the NCAA men’s basketball tournament with a loss. But the losing is often not what hurts the most.

The most meaningful part of #MarchMadness is the parade of March sadness.

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McNeese State’s coach is leaving. His players might love him more than ever. Will Wade’s Cowboys are the upset darling of the NCAA tournament so far, even after Wade made clear he is taking a different job.

To absorb the zeitgeist of college sports in 2025, visit and listen to athletes in . . .

. . . the McNeese locker room.

Yeah.

Their coach is leaving at a tricky time.

Why are they pretty much the opposite of distracted?

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Is it really?

Dog-walking, stroller-parking, jet-gazing and palm-dwelling at the darlingest of American airports, in the park adjacent the Sonny Bono Concourse, Palm Springs, California, United States, Earth, 18 March 2025

The magic of March Madness is one long hug between mother and son SIU Edwardsville guard Ray’Sean Taylor earned a long-awaited NCAA tournament berth then shared the moment with his mom, epitomizing the best of the annual event.

To spend two weeks watching conference tournaments is to spend two weeks watching a protracted sequence of hugs. They hug because they made it. They hug because they didn't.

One hug beat all.

1. ANORA. Yes, the whole bonkers, commenting, telling, propulsive ride, and yes, the astonishing Mikey Madison (who herself deserves to win), but yes still more, that gasp of an ending, and those windshield wipers.

. . . came “Parasite” and now five foreign-language Best Picture nominees in the last two years, including this tour with a heavenly Brazilian actress (Fernanda Torres) through a vile part of Brazilian history in the beaming Southern Hemisphere sunlight.

2. I’M STILL HERE. There was a day not long ago when Oscar voters shied from voting international films as Best Picture, such that Alfonso Cuaron’s great “Roma” won just about everything (including Best Director) but Best Picture. I’m still mad about that, but then . . .

3. NICKEL BOYS. Here’s both an adaptation of an unsparing novel (by Colson Whitehead) and an unsparing look at yet another vile part of American history they never seemed to get around to teaching us in school.

4. EMILIA PEREZ. All misgivings considered (including the accent issue), what a ride through the volatile streams of the human imagination.

5. THE BRUTALIST. Sometimes you think you’re watching an important depiction of an important topic (treatment of immigrants) done in inventive strokes with a great lead actor (Adrien Brody), yet can’t tell if it wowed because it’s supposed to wow or because it wowed. A hell of a work either way.