While the Reds were falling to last place amid a weekend sweep by the New York Yankees, the two best records in the game belonged to two of the three smallest payrolls.
That Bob Huggins had not been relieved of his duties after his comments aired on 700WLW speaks to his stature on the Morgantown campus and, presumably, to the defective moral compass of West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee.
If Secretariat was not the greatest racehorse in history – and Man o’ War may be the only other thoroughbred worthy of consideration – he retains a mystique unmatched in his sport.
