Overbrook

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Yea Churchill doesn't like the Louisiana is free of HISA but there is nothing they can do about it. In fact if the Supreme Court rules in favor of HISA and Louisiana loses its lawsuit then there is a chance that Louisiana can opt out of HISA just like Texas did. Now that would really piss of CDI.

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That's classic "cut off your nose to spite your face."
Those Texas tracks are finished. They have no handle; we're talking 3 figure handle for some exotics. Their purses are subsidized.

And who the heck is Louisiana, the mecca of crooked racing, to stand on its high horse and reject HISA.

Freaking Churchill. They've lowballed investment, especially purses, since forever. The racing would be much better even at Colonial "no handle" Downs levels.
But Louisiana rejecting HISA and embracing drug trainers doesn't help either.

And it doesn't help that the racing office runs the place like it's Evangeline Downs for a lot of the racing.....no sh$$ handle is down when you run conditioned 5s et al.

In the end, Fair Grounds is part of the community and the owner has the obligation to nourish it, not starve it. There's public trust involved here, or there should be.

Oh boo hoo for Pete Rose. Plenty of other deserving players weren't invited into the Hall until after death, and they didn't stained the game like he did.

Will probably work out for them. Run a night school - those are cash cows.

What matters is whether they made a good decision in drafting Shough.

Well they needed a QB badly. The problem is that they consistently reach for players: day 2 = 3 reaches.
That's a level of arrogance that they can evaluate significantly better than the consensus. History suggests that they can't.

Another pick, another reach.

Reach for the 25 year old.
Of course this is a great pick.

People were afraid that they'd draft him in round 1.
This wouldn't be so bad, if they think he's a first round QB.

And don't they still have like 6 first round picks in their pocket.

Amazing GM work.