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There are games that define a career and games that define a franchise. The week 3 matchup of the Vikings and 49ers will define their progress and needs.

It has only been a week since Mike Singletary was named Interim Head Coach for the San Francisco 49ers, and his impact is already being felt in the locker room.

On that fateful Tuesday Scott pulled his gun and fired at his wife, blowing away the side of her face and the back of her head.

The San Francisco 49ers look to make it back to the playoffs for the first time in 2002. After flashing potential last season in a few big wins. Can the drought be over?

Three outstanding Kentucky Derby champions from the 1980s were fillies Genuine Risk (1980) and Winning Colors (1988), and Alysheba (1987), who won after throat surgery.

Triple Crown winner Count Fleet sired the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes victors of 1951. In 2009, Birdstone became the first stallion to match that accomplishment.

Just the ninth gelding in Kentucky Derby history to win the Run for the Roses, Mine That Bird joined a cast with speed pedigrees in Funny Cide and 1929's Clyde Van Dusen.

Breeders' Cup winners Albertus Maximus (Albert the Great) in the Dirt Mile and Dalakhani son Conduit in the Turf also have Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector sire lines.

Late March and early April saw the deaths of never unplaced Nine Keys, who first delivered a City Zip filly March 23, and champion racer and stallion Moscow Ballet.

Synthetic surfaces is not trainer Bob Baffert's favorite subject. His star Indian Blessing lost on it in the BC Sprint. But his boys, Midshipman and Midnight Lute, won.

Big Brown is a huge favorite at Pimlico. Only one horse from the Kentucky Derby follows Big Brown to the Preakness Stakes; no other is being seriously betted.

The big Five-Oh. It's supposed to be just another birthday -- but who's kidding whom? Here are 50-plus ideas for boomers to celebrate and do more than just survive it.

Thirty-nine fillies have entered the Kentucky Derby in its 134 runnings. The first to win was Regret in 1915. Genuine Risk scored in 1980. Winning Colors won in 1988.

"That Glorious Song of Old" was written by Americans Edmund Sears and composer Richard Willis, a carol that speaks of angels and the nativity.

Swale, son of Seattle Slew, was short-lived. Spend a Buck had six names. Winning Colors was a filly. These Thoroughbreds had something in common: Kentucky Derby wins.

Less than a week after devastating the field in the Kentucky Oaks, Rachel Alexandra has been sold to Jess Jackson's Stonestreet Stables and Harold T. McCormick.

First pointed to the Preakness, Mr. Fantasy may be headed to the Metropolitan Handicap instead. Holy Bull son Hull will join the Preakness line-up with filly Rachel A.

No one outside of Canada and New Mexico thought Mine That Bird had a prayer of winning the 2009 Kentucky Derby. Once again, the experts were wrong.

The Breeders' Cup World Championships was a potential showcase for sons of the great Tiznow in the second annual Dirt Mile. None showed the killer kick of their daddy.

For anyone who has hidden gold and silver treasures forgotten in the attic, now might be the time to recycle them into spending money.

Results of the 2008 Breeders' Cup World Championships saw Zenyatta run like a Horse of the Year, Curlin gamely lose, Stardom Bound give notice, Midshipman gain a medal.

Michigan is home to Thoroughbred sires of dual classic winning ancestry. Sugar Bay, by Syncline, a son of very successful sire Danzig, leads the state's top earners.

No one could have imagined the far-reaching implications of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in Northern California.