Surprise winner or not?

From fourth in the Sunland Derby in El Paso to first at the Kentucky Derby. Mine That Bird a $9,500 horse won the Derby as a 50-1 long shot. Not only did he win it he won it in a fashion that will be remembered for a long time coming from the back of the field in spectacular ride by Calvin Boreal to win it with ease. Mine That Bird was horse the 2 year old champion in Canada and his sire won the Belmont in 2004 and grandsire the Derby in 1996 so it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that he won but it is to the experts.

I got a big laugh out of the owners being reminded that Kentucky is the horse racing capital of the world. New Mexico is the quarter horse racing capital of the world and the the All American Futurity was the first million dollar horse race and currently is over a two million dollar purse for a 20 second horse drag race that thoroughbreds couldn’t in compete in because they are way to slow.

Looks like there won’t be a triple crown winner again this year or if there is it will be a bigger surprise than this race.

BCS Busters Week 3

Fresno St is officially out as a BCS buster after a 13-10 loss at home to Wisconsin. PJ Hill ran for 112 yds and the Badgers defense mand several key stops in the second half to emerge a winner in Fresno.

Matt Asiata scored three touchdowns rushing and Brian Johnson threw for two more scores and No. 22 Utah defeated Utah State 58-10 on Saturday night. Last weeks win over UNLV looks more impressive after the UNLV win over Arizona ST on saturday.

Patrick Pinkney threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Jamar Bryant with 1:41 left in the fourth quarter for East Carolina and the No. 14 Pirates rallied for a 28-24 victory against Tulane on Saturday.

In BYU’s most lopsided victory since shutting out New Mexico 65-0 in 1988 BYU stunned UCLA 59-0. The Cougars outgained UCLA 521-239 and came up with a dominate victory one week after edging Washington 28-27 on a blocked extra point attempt. Max Hall tied a school record with seven td passes in the game. After such a dominating game BYU should be considered the leader in the race to play in a BCS game.

BCS Busters

Utah survived 25-23 over Michigan to remain in contention as a BCS Buster. They put up 313 yards in the first half and held on to beat Michigan. Utah dual purpose kicker Louie Sakoda had field goals of 28, 43, 41 and 53 and punted six times for 283 yds.

East Carolina defeated Virginia Tech 27-22 when T.J. Lee returned his own blocked punt 27 yards for a touchdown with 1:52 left.

Boise St had no problem in beating Idaho St 49-7. Boise St had 352 yds passing and 230 yds rushing in their blow out. They could have scored in the last few seconds but did the right thing.

BYU beat Northern Iowa 41-17. Max Hall threw for 486 yards and two touchdowns and Dennis Pitta had a career-best 213 receiving yards for the Cougars as they extended the longest winning streak in the nation to 11.

TCU had no problem in beating New Mexico 26-3. Quarterback Andy Dalton ran for two touchdowns as TCU took advantage of New Mexico’s first-half mistakes and went on to a 26-3 win Saturday in the season-opener for both teams.

After a slow first half Fresno St dominated the second half with 166 yds rushing by Ryan Mathews. The final score was Fresno St 24 Rutgers 7. Next up Fresno St has on Wisconson on saturday at Fresno.