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20 hours ago
- Yahoo
Sovereignty Leads Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings For The Third Week
Sovereignty Leads Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings For The Third Week originally appeared on Paulick Report. Godolphin's homebred Sovereignty stayed atop the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings for a third consecutive week heading into his expected next start in the Aug. 23 Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings are a weekly rating of the top 10 horses in contention for the $7 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic, which will be run Nov. 1 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif., during the 42nd Breeders' Cup World by Bill Mott, Sovereignty, winner of the Kentucky Derby (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1) and Jim Dandy Stakes (G2), totaled 329 votes and held a 27-vote margin over Sierra Leone (302 votes), the defending Longines Breeders' Cup Classic winner and the winner of the Aug. 2 Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga. The remaining eight positions in the poll were also unchanged from last Stable and St. Elias Stables LLC's homebred 4-year-old Mindframe, winner of the Stephen Foster (G1), is in third place with 255 votes, followed by Preakness (G1) and Haskell Stakes (G1) winner Journalism, who is in fourth place with 234 votes for trainer Michael McCarthy and owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Bridlewood Farm, Don Alberto Stable, Robert LaPenta, Elayne Stables Five, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael B. Tabor, and Derrick Corp's 4-year-old San Diego Handicap (G2) winner Nysos stays in fifth place with 184 votes for trainer Bob Baffert. Saudi Cup (G1) winner Forever Young is in sixth place with 143 votes for owner Susumu Fujita and trainer Yoshito Yahagi. The 4-year-old Fierceness, owned by Repole Stable, Derrick Smith, Michael B. Tabor, and Mrs. John Magnier, and trained by Todd Pletcher, is in seventh place with 139 votes.C R K Stable LLC and Grandview Equine's 3-year-old Baeza, third in the Kentucky Derby and third in the Belmont Stakes for trainer John Shirreffs, is in eighth place with 97 5-year-old homebred Highland Falls, runner-up in the Whitney Stakes, is in ninth place with 81 votes for trainer Brad Cox.C2 Racing Stable, Gary Barber, and La Milagrosa Stable LLC's 6-year-old White Abarrio, who won the 2023 Longines Breeders' Cup Classic, is in 10th place with 46 votes for trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. Sierra Leone (Whitney), Mindframe (Stephen Foster), Journalism (Haskell), and Forever Young (Saudi Cup) have each earned automatic starting positions and fees paid into this year's Longines Breeders' Cup Classic through the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: Win and You're Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings are determined by a panel of leading Thoroughbred racing media, horseplayers, and members of the Breeders' Cup Racing Directors/Secretaries Panel. Rankings will be announced each week through Oct. 7. A list of voting members can be found here. In the Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings, each voter rates horses on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 system in descending – The Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings have no bearing on qualification or selection into the Breeders' Cup 2025 Longines Breeders' Cup Classic, which will be run at 1 1/4 miles on the main track at Del Mar, is limited to 14 starters. The race will be broadcast live on NBC. This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Aug 19, 2025, where it first appeared.
Fox News
a day ago
- Fox News
Liberal media split: Who gets what in the messy NBC-MSNBC divorce?
The decades-long marriage between NBC and MSNBC is steadily headed towards a corporate divorce as parent company Comcast continues its NBCUniversal split, separating the famed Peacock brand from the majority of its cable assets. Last year, Comcast announced it was spinning off its cable networks into a separate company, now named Versant. Versant will be the new home for MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and the Golf Channel among other assets, while NBCUniversal maintains NBC News, the NBC News Now streaming network, Telemundo and Bravo. For years, NBC and MSNBC were joined at the hip as the cable network relied on the news-gathering operation and talent of its sister broadcast network. But the separation is expected to be completed by the end of 2025. So who gets what in the messy divorce? One of the looming questions over MSNBC's future was whether it would keep its name and the iconic "Peacock" symbol. That answer came Monday when it was announced that MSNBC will be renamed MS NOW, an acronym for "My Source for News, Opinion, and the World." A new logo was also unveiled, replacing the fashionable rainbow bird with a striped flag with a red, white and blue color scheme. Notably, CNBC, which always stood for "Consumer News and Business Channel," will keep its name. New York City's Rockefeller Center has always been the home of NBC, and MSNBC when the cable network launched in 1996. But in the divorce, NBC gets to keep the house. MSNBC is packing up its boxes and will temporarily relocate to nearby 43rd Street until it finds a permanent home. It will also vacate NBC's Washington, D.C., bureau near the Capitol Building and establish its own office space. Throughout the NBC-MSNBC marriage, many of the hosts and correspondents hopped between the broadcast and cable networks on a regular basis to provide coverage of the latest breaking news. MSNBC has been on a hiring spree in recent months since NBC will maintain the news apparatus post-divorce, most notably poaching veteran journalist Carol Leonnig from the embattled Washington Post. But for the talent whose roles blurred the lines between both networks, a custody battle has ensued. NBC nabbed Steve Kornacki, the Peacock network's data and polling expert who had become a fixture on MSNBC's election night coverage. Andrea Mitchell, who ended her long-running MSNBC program "Andrea Mitchell Reports" in February, will remain with NBC as its chief Washington and foreign affairs correspondent. Similarly, José Díaz-Balart departed MSNBC earlier this year but will continue anchoring "NBC Nightly News Saturday" as well as Noticias Telemundo. Meanwhile, the NBC reporters who will be joining MS NOW include justice beat reporters Ken Dilanian and Ryan Reilly, national correspondent Jacob Soboroff, White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard and internet reporter Brandy Zadrozny. A slew of other staffers will also make the leap from NBC to MS NOW. Everyone on MSNBC's current lineup will remain on the network through its transformation into MS NOW, including Stephanie Ruhle, who previously served as a senior business analyst for NBC News while hosting "The 11th Hour" on cable. Willie Geist, who currently hosts "Sunday TODAY" for NBC and co-hosts "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, has landed a rare deal where he is able to maintain both roles at each network after the separation, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.
New York Post
4 days ago
- New York Post
Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. not blaming Home Run Derby for funk that took ‘longer than I expected' to snap
Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free ST. LOUIS — Home Run Derby curse or not, Jazz Chisholm Jr. believes he is back. A month after taking part in the event, Chisholm is finally feeling like himself again and, in a small sample size, producing like the hitter he was heading into the All-Star break, at a time when the Yankees need it most. 'I'm starting to feel like I can hit any pitch again,' Chisholm said Friday night after clubbing a two-run homer that keyed a 4-3 win over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. 'Once it's over the plate, I'm going to crush it a little bit.' For the better part of six weeks earlier this summer, Chisholm was swinging the bat like one of the best Yankees hitters, which eventually punched his ticket to the All-Star Game and even the Home Run Derby. 4 Jazz Chisholm Jr. homers during the Yankees' win against the Cardinals on Aug. 15, 2025. Getty Images Then he started the second half like he performed in the Derby — that is to say, quietly, after he hit just three homers in the event, 12 fewer than the next closest hitter. Chisholm had pledged that he would not get injured in the Derby by overswinging because he was sticking to his '70 percent' approach, but might his swing have gotten out of whack in the process? 'No, because I feel like … in the [All-Star] game I hit line drives, came back to the series after the Home Run Derby, I did hit a couple high fly balls I thought were going to get out,' Chisholm said. 'I feel like I was under some baseballs, hitting them too high but hitting them hard. Feel like I'm finally getting into a groove where I'm staying above the ball, staying on top of it and driving through it.' 4 Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts after hitting a home run during the Yankees' Aug. 15 win over the Cardinals. Imagn Images Instead, Chisholm chalked it up to losing his timing over the four-day break In Chisholm's first 20 games out of the break, he hit just .197 (15-for-76) with a .568 OPS, two home runs, four walks, 25 strikeouts and four steals. Aaron Boone gave Chisholm a breather the following game, with lefty Framber Valdez on the mound, which seems to have paid dividends. In five games since, entering Saturday, Chisholm hit .294 (5-for-17) with a 1.193 OPS, two home runs, one triple, four walks, six strikeouts and four steals. 'It took longer than I expected, honestly, but I feel good now,' he said. 4 Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts after hitting a triple during the Yankees' Aug. 12 game. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post The Yankees need that to continue in the coming days and weeks as they fight for their playoff lives. Chisholm's talent remains tantalizing, as he can impact the game with his power and legs, though he can sometimes get in his own way of doing that consistently. 'Kind of had a week, 10-day, whatever lull there where he was scuffling a little bit,' manager Aaron Boone said. 'Feel like he's starting to gain some traction again. He was in such a good place there for about a month, really consistent at-bats. More of that [Friday]. His at-bats were really good. Smokes the homer, but lines out his last time up, controlling the zone well. You know how he can impact the game when he's locked in up there. Looks like he's starting to get back to where he was a few weeks ago.' 4 Jazz Chisholm Jr. singles during the Yankees' Aug. 12 game. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Chisholm is on the verge of his second career 20-20 season, even after missing a month with an oblique strain and with more than a month left to play. He entered Saturday with 21 home runs and 18 steals, which put him in a select class with José Ramírez, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Juan Soto, Francisco Lindor, Julio Rodríguez and Randy Arozarena.
