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ESPN.com has an interesting headline on its front page right now: Babcock rips officiating in Game 5.

Babcock is Detroit Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock. Game 5 is that of the Stanley Cup Finals. The calls in question are two goalie interference calls in overtime against the Red Wings, neither of which were the power play Pittsburgh scored on to end the game in triple overtime.

Here's the story. If you can find anything Babcock says in this story that constitutes "ripping" the officiating, let me know. Even funnier is that the story even says he didn't say anything until they pressed him, and he hardly said anything when they did.

Woe is you, ESPN. Yellow journalism, here we come.

Is it just me or is Saturday's Belmont Stakes shaping out to be a potential disaster for the "sport" of horse racing?

We just watched Eight Belles get put down at the Kentucky Derby, the first time a horse was put down at the race in a long time. That already has the nation on the fence about horse racing.

Now we have a Triple Crown candidate, Big Brown, going into the Belmont with a cracked hoof that his shady trainer insists isn't going to be a problem at the race. If people go into Saturday expecting to see history and end up seeing tragedy, it will be such a swing of emotion that horse racing, or horse whipping as I like to call it, may never recover.