Saratoga

Saratoga Racecourse opens for another season on Thursday, and it gets no better watching the best horses jockeys and trainers in the country.

There are a ton of parallels between being a sports fan and a live music fan. A great concert set-list by a favorite artist can generate the same excitement amongst the crowd, as a last-second three-pointer or walk-off victory.

Saratoga Race Course has long been a crown jewel of the New York Racing Association. Soon the historic race track may host the biggest crown in horse racing, the Triple Crown.

Saturday will be the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of horse racing's jewel, the Triple Crown. As the anticipation builds for fans to watch Forte battle Tapid Trice and National Treasure this weekend, the attention of many in the horse racing community has already begun to look north to Saratoga, horse racing's summer home.

Attendance was once again over 1 million, and for the third time in the last four years a new all sources handle record was set at the Spa.

Epicenter is at the top of his class, with the Breeders Cup at Keeneland the next stop.

Sunday at Saratoga Race Course, attendees witnessed one of the most bizarre things to happen during a race, so much so, that the race was deemed a "no contest".

He played played his college basketball at a Division II school, Virginia Union. Yet he was a first-round draft pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1985. The man that they called "Oak Tree" played 19 seasons in the NBA. Ten of those years were played in Madison Square Garden for the New York Knicks. His name was synonymous with Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Anthony Mason and Doc Rivers from those tough mid-1990's teams.

The Saratoga racing season starts next week, and it gets no better. Opening day on Thursday never gets old.

New York has a number of prominent sports teams, with millions of passionate fans, but this local venue brings in more spectators than nearly all of them.

Ahead of Opening Day for the 2022 season at Saratoga Race Course, NYRA has announced an action-packed schedule of special events for spectators this summer.

Snowmobiling is no fun when there is no snow. Watching your $14,000 investment sit on a trailer with a cover on it in late December stinks! Now that we have some snow in the in the upper regions of New York, Massachusetts and Vermont, let's find some trails close to home. There are some smaller clubs that maintain awesome trails and some bigger ones that incorporate groups of land owners and associations. Season trail passes for many of these clubs run from about $30 to $100 a year. Some have volunteer stipulations for trail maintenance.