#Best Actor

Sports betting is becoming more prevalent as states continue to legalize and launch their own retail and online sportsbooks. And while sports betting itself is starting to enter the mainstream, it's been popularized in media and film for decades. Here's a breakdown of five popular sports betting scenes in movies. There are plenty of films about…

You've not been paying attention-and why would you have been?-but three OTE writers have recently become fathers, the two of us for the first time (and, by the time this sees the light of day, maybe we'll have been joined by Beez). Of course, as we all know, that comes with loads of spare time while the little potato just lies there and requires no…

Epicenter, shown training before his second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, meets the winner of that race, Rich Strike, again Saturday in the Grade I Travers Stakes at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The "Midsummer Derby" at Saratoga pits the first three finishers from the Kentucky Derby against one another again in…

In early March, the Seattle Seahawks surrendered and declared 2021 to be a rebuilding year. By trading veteran quarterback Russell Wilson to Denver for three players and a pile of draft picks, the team waved a white flag and planned for the distant future. In early November, it has become clear that one of the biggest trades in NFL history was…

Carryingtwo Grade 1 wins this year, Cyberknife probably will line up in the Breeders' Cup Classic, right? Notso fast, his trainer Brad Cox said Saturday after his Gun Runner colt lost toanother Gun Runner colt. Cyberknife finished third to Taiba in the Grade 1, $1million Pennsylvania Derby. SinceFebruary, Cyberknife has won four times, twice at 1…

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With the Sunday stakes races on the major racing circuits as unappetizing as a plate of regurgitated gruel, we're going off the beaten for today's action, to Remington Park in Oklahoma City, where the Oklahoma Derby headlines a terrific 12-race card. We have plays in three of those races, all stakes, and we expect fast dirt and firm turf in all…

Bet with the Racing Dudes TODAY using our friends at BetPTC and get a $200 new member bonus! Enter promo code DUDES! The Grade 3, $400000 Oklahoma Derby headlines a 12-race program on Sunday, Sept. 25 at Remington Park. The headliner drew a field of eight this morning with Best Actor tabbed the morning-line favorite at 9-5 odds. Owned by Gary and…

In the wake of the highly-touted 2022 Emmy Awards, viewers are already looking ahead to the 2023 Academy Awards slated to take place Sunday, March 12th. It will be a number of months before nominations are officially announced, but early speculation is underway as far as what actors, directors and films will occupy each category. Anything can…

Cyberknife, shown winning the Arkansas Derby, runs in Saturday's $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing. Coady Photography, courtesy of Oaklawn Park Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Saturday's Pennsylvania Derby brings together many of the top U.S. 3-year-olds just hours after a few of the top prospects for next year's European Classics kick off the…

BradCox admitted he was not sure how Cyberknife and Tawny Port will like - or notlike - the main track at Parx Racing, where they will run Saturday in the Grade1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby. "It'skind of tough," Cox said this week in the office at his Churchill Downs barn. "Youprobably need to breeze them over it a time or two to really, really…

Each coming off impressive recent stakes victories, Best Actor and Rattle N Roll headline a field of eight set for Sunday's $400000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park. Trained by Brad Cox, Best Actor is the likely favorite in the 9-furlong test. A son of Flatter, he has won three of four career starts and comes in off a 5 ¾-length score in the Grade…

BENSALEM, Pa.- Nominations are set for the Grade 1, $1 million betPARX Pennsylvania Derby with as many as 28 3-year-olds under consideration for the 42nd renewal of the 1 1/8-mile event Saturday, Sept. 24 at Parx Racing. The betPARX Pennsylvania Derby anchors a 10-stakes program that also co-features the Grade 1, $ million Cotillion for 3-year-old…

Nominations are set for the Grade 1, $1 million betPARX Pennsylvania Derby with as many as 28 3-year-olds under consideration for the 42nd renewal of the 1 1/8-mile event Saturday, Sept. 24 at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Penn. The betPARX Pennsylvania Derby anchors a 10-stakes program that also co-features the Grade 1, $ million Cotillion for…