Ripley's Believe It or Not

For 05/07/2010

Jack Benny Program

From 1950, an episode of The Jack Benny Program, Jack Goes Christmas Shopping.
You just cant beat this for classic laughs. I love the whole cast and show.

Ernie Harwell R.I.P

Tonight the baseball world lost one its greatest people and announcers, Ernie Harwell.
Play by play voice of the Detroit Tigers for 42 years passed away tonight at the age of 92.

Kentucky Derby gets highest TV ratings in 18 years

Kentucky Derby gets highest TV ratings in 18 years - More Sports - SI.com

This is great news for the horse racing fans!

New #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller List - Fiction

There is a new #1 Fiction Hardback bestseller for the week ending April 30th 2010. Returning to the Top of the list almost a year to the date from his last #1 book is David Baldacci and "Deliver Us From Evil". His previous #1 was from May 1st 2009, "First Family".
From Publisher Weekly on his new book: Bestseller Baldacci's sequel to The Whole Truth (2008) lacks the creative plotting and masterful handling of suspense that marked his earlier thrillers. Evan Waller, outwardly a respectable Canadian businessman but secretly a human trafficker who sells children into prostitution, has expanded into arranging nuclear weapons deals with Islamic fundamentalists. Shaw, the lead of The Whole Truth, sets out to stop Evan, as does Regina Reggie Campion, a British femme fatale, who works for a clandestine group that tracks down and executes war criminals. Reggie and Shaw, both of whom intend to make their move while Evan is on vacation in Provence, cross paths while maintaining their cover stories. Shaw becomes attracted to Reggie, even as he fears that Evan, who's in fact a sadistic Ukrainian who served the Soviets, will abduct her. Crucial developments come across as contrived rather than clever. The ultimate resolution will surprise few. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

2010 Kentucky Derby Winner

Super Saver with Calvin Borel up as jockey won the 136th Kentucky Derby.

1964 Kentucky Derby

The 1964 Derby was highlighted by the first win for a Canadian horse at the Derby. That horse was the legendary Northern Dancer. He would go on to become the most successful sire of the 20th century. He won the Derby in the record time of 2 minutes flat. That record stood until 1973 when "the living, breathing locomotive" Secretariat ran the course in 1 min 59.4 seconds. The only horse to break the 2 min barrier since 1973 was Monarchos in 2001 with a winning time of 1 min 59.97 secs.
Called the Sire of Champions Northern Dance sired 147 stakes winners including the great Nijinsky II who was the last horse to win England's Triple Crown in 1970. One of his other sons Northern Taste was the leading sire in Japan for 10 years.
Northern Dancer was retired from stud in 1987 and died in 1990.