Smarty Jones, your 2004 Kentucky Derby champion, is God's Horse. Seabiscuit for the new milleniumYou see a horse like that and a story like this maybe once in a lifetime. Twice, if you've seen Seabiscuit. Smarty came ...

With a victory in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 5, 2004, Smarty Jones will have captured horseracing's most elusive prize—the Triple Crown. No horse has done it since ...

Pop quiz, which is the biggest sin? A) Missing Mass on Easter Sunday B) Because you were out until five in the morning on Holy Saturday C) Hooking up with a person you'd known for under an hour ...

I saw Mars last night, a tiny spark of crimson in an expanse of frosty black. It's tough to miss. First red planet to the right. I saw the moon too, half-crecented ...

"It's a boy," my brother-in-law said with great shock as he stood before a roomful of nail-biting family members and friends. The stunned pandemonium that followed shook the desk ...

Crystal Ball v. Gore On the evening of the 2000 election, I sat before Judith Regan Live watching a psychic make a prediction about the outcome. "We won't know who won for a ...

There are certain things one simply does not announce about oneself upon meeting a marriage-eligible member of the opposite sex. Such as: "I've refrained from sexual intercourse because my body is a Temple of the Holy ...

In November of 2002, baseball's all-time hits leader had the following conversation with the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig: "Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball," Pete Rose said during the meeting, ...

Hey, are you like me? You know?screwed? I am one of those poor unfortunate souls born in that ungodly space between Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King Day. Jesus picked a terrible birthday for Himself. If you love ...

So I'm dumping the box of Halloween costumes out on the floor last night, and� there wasn't much there. I don't mean there wasn't a great deal to choose from--we're talking about fourteen year's worth ...