By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes

Is merely taking care of business enough? Plus: Taking Care Of Bulls Shit; Blackhawks Turner Underdrive; Boston Turner Overserved; Cubs Bringing Back Camels; NIU vs. NU; and Crushing Oprah, Eddie Olczyk, The Breeders’ Cup & The Soul Of Racing.

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Posted on November 2, 2018

By Thomas Chambers

Whoa, Nellie! It’s here!
The 34th Breeders’ Cup World Championships, America’s bacchanalian promenade of 14 brain-busting races over two days, kicks off Friday from, appropriately in this modern age, the thoroughly social strata’d steroidal Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky.
2018’s gimmick is that all the juvenile races will be run Friday, with the thicker resume’d runners going on Saturday. The playing field? Heavy rains came and went Wednesday and Thursday, so the turf course figures to matriculate from soft to maybe firm as the weekend progresses. The main track will be fast.

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Posted on November 2, 2018