Saturday is easy to predict, although not in the way your handicapper or oddsmaker might find interesting.
It’s going to be huge. Vegas will be packed for the finale of the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather reality show. Louisville will be grand as newspaper columnists and television shows spend the week producing odes to Barbaro leading into another wide-open Kentucky Derby.
It will be a great day for boxing and horse racing.
But what about Sunday?
There was a time, not so long ago, that boxing and horse racing were two of our favorite sports. Their champions were larger-than-life figures who graced the covers of Time and Sports Illustrated.
Their biggest days were electric. The whole nation watched.
Celebrities showed up like it was the Academy Awards.
But both have been in decline in recent years for similar issues
