Stopped at the Town Fryer for some grub on the way home last night. I'm a big fan of mashups and their house band (at least for this month) played "Folsom Prison" with a couple of verses of "Pinball Wizard" and it was quite good.

Today is Belmont day. The last of this year's Triple Crown races. It looks like you can't bet the favorites and win anything, so I'm going with Andromeda's Hero. He's Zito-trained, has the breeding, rested since the Derby and has some nice works at Saratoga since then. This is the race he's been pointed to all along and I think it's worth a shot. Afleet Alex probably finishes in the top three and Giacomo might clunk up there, as well, for a piece.

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The Army is facing some real recruiting challenges. Hard to show beautiful scenes of foreign lands when you might not make it back.

Even Russell Crowe's wife can't excuse his phone tossing incident. That's a refreshing attitude heard very seldom these days from celebrity types.

There is an auction for Abe Vigoda on toast! Only $61.01 as I write.

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Like we couldn't see this coming. Malcolm Glazer is raising ticket prices for Manchester United. Why? Because people will pay, dummy.

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32 Across: "The Blue Dahlia" screenwriter (15 letters) Answer: Raymond Chandler