Neil Milbert

When Street Sense won the Kentucky Derby for Barrington owner-breeder Jim Tafel, it was the horse racing equivalent of Southern Illinois winning the NCAA tournament. If Street Sense takes Tafel...

One year ago, Michael Matz met the press en masse during Preakness week. Now, only a solitary reporter has made the 63-mile trek north from Baltimore to the pastoral Fair...

Curlin's trainer, Steve Asmussen, said Thursday the third-place Kentucky Derby finisher would run in the May 19 Preakness at Pimlico. "Coming back from his first defeat (in his four-race career),...

Circular Quay: Jockey John Velazquez. Won Louisiana Derby; 2nd in Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Sire Thunder Gulch won 1995 Kentucky Derby. Scat Daddy: Jockey Edgar Prado. Won Florida Derby and Fountain...

Illinois senior guard Rich McBride has written a letter to the editor of the student newspaper, the Daily Illini, apologizing for his Sept. 29 arrest for driving under the influence...

The 2007 Chicago thoroughbred season gets underway Friday afternoon when Hawthorne Race Course opens its spring meeting, which will run through April 29. There have been several major changes in...

Northwestern and Illinois are going into Wednesday night's game in Welsh-Ryan Arena ostensibly fighting for their tournament lives. That's where the similarity ends. For the Wildcats (11-11, 1-8), going to...

Never mind that Jamar Smith is in the grips of a prolonged shooting slump. He still will be a marked man Saturday when Illinois plays at Purdue. "He went into...

Backup center Marcus Arnold is the latest victim of the injury hex that has besieged Illinois. Arnold suffered a broken nose in the first half of Wednesday night's victory over...

Illinois basketball coach Bruce Weber received a badly needed pick-me-up a few hours after Saturday's 18-point home-court loss to Ohio State when 6-foot-3-inch Quinton Watkins, a senior shooting guard from...