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This must have been what Ed Sullivan felt like when he introduced a guy named Elvis Presley.

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one, the only ... Jim ... Schuuuuuuutze! ...

O.K., this is my first time over here on Sportatorium, and I'm feeling kind of insecure. I'm a City Hall wonk, extremely interested in curb and gutter improvement programs and stuff like that. I think this blog is full of all those jock-type guys whose way I tried to stay out of in the hallways in high school. (But I had some very witty, snide things to say about you after you were down at the other end of the hall, so WATCH OUT!)

So why am I here at all? Because maybe I need your help. There is some kind of huge deal bubbling up under the surface in Dallas politics, and I don't get it. Maybe you do. Maybe you can tell me.

Putting down galliant fillies like Eight Belles is only one of horse racing's serious problems

Tomorrow, Lone Star Park holds one of its biggest days of the year, and after a disastrous and embarrassing Kentucky Derby, horse racing could use some good news. Maybe that’s why Lone Star Park is trotting out the nation’s only female bugler to play the Call to the Post.

How progressive of them.

The bugle call does give me goose bumps, growing up in a horse racing family and all, but if the sport really wanted to do something progressive it would start with its cheats.