The mayhem at the rented home of the California Rodeo Salinas was not bull-riding, steer-tailing, or even bullfighting as done by the rules SALINAS, California––If the Jaripeo Baile held on August 1, 2026 at the Salinas Sports Complex in Salinas, California had been an authentic exhibition of Mexican culture, the participants who kicked and […]
Kangaroo cleats & Aqueduct horse racing: sports jump & run to change
Kangaroo leather soccer boots & thoroughbred racing in NYC, both now history, were both booming businesses not so very long ago QUEENS, New York––The ongoing FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, from which Team USA was eliminated on July 6, 2026 in Seattle, and the June 28, 2026 last race at the Aqueduct Racetrack in […]
For horse racing & Major League Baseball, gamefowl come home to roost
Just when the Kentucky Derby appeared to have escaped stepping in poop––and can the Dodgers dodge pitcher’s promotion of cockfighting? SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico; NEW YORK, N.Y.––The horse racing industry breathed a premature sigh of collective relief when the May 2, 2026 Kentucky Derby concluded without another of the public relations disasters that for more […]
San Diego Rodeo witnesses “not credible,” finds judge, but rules for the rodeo
Plaintiffs see “victory” in judicial criticisms of responses to deaths of horses Waco Kid and Pearl Necklace SAN DIEGO, California; PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania; WASHINGTON D.C.––San Diego County Superior Court judge Joel R. Wohlfeil apparently will not be issuing an injunction to stop future editions of the San Diego Padres Rodeo at PetCo Park, according to his […]
Baseball ignores cockfighting link to players allegedly betting on games
Players gambling on any sporting event violates major league rule in effect since 1876 NEW YORK, N.Y.––If Major League Baseball did not already know it has a gambling problem, associated with open tolerance of players’ involvement in cockfighting, the indictment testimony of an informant identified only as Bettor-1 introduced in Brooklyn, New York federal […]
Two big dogfighting convictions & a dogfighting bust give FIGHT Act a boost
Case against ex-NFL star Leshon Johnson is way bigger than was the Michael Vick case WASHINGTON D.C.––Two big dogfighting convictions and one major dogfighting bust in the second week of August 2025 might give the Fighting Inhumane Gambling and High-Risk Trafficking [FIGHT] Act a boost when Congress reconvenes after the summer recess at 9:00 a.m. […]
Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?
Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event OMAK, Washington––The 91st edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak, Washington, is to conclude on August 10, 2025, as the final event of the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo. Checking to see how many horses died at Omak this […]
“Kangaroos are not shoes” campaign boots Adidas into the goal
Adidas was on the losing end of a $2.8 billion penalty kick FURTH, Germany––“Adidas’s chief executive officer Bjørn Gulden personally told me this morning that the company has permanently stopped sourcing kangaroo skins for its shoe models,” exulted Animal Wellness Action and Center for A Humane Economy president Wayne Pacelle on May 15, 2025. “Bjørn […]
U.S. Supreme Court upholds Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act––for now
Supreme Court ruling may have application to Heath Taylor quarter horse deaths WASHINGTON D.C.––The enforcement provisions of the 2020 Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act stand, at least for now, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered on October 28, 2024. Placing on indefinite hold a July 5, 2024 ruling by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, […]
Cockfights hit, pumas on Colorado ballot, but no gains vs. steer-tailing
Cockfighters on the run in North Carolina, but only the steers are running––again and again––in Illinois coleaderos CREEDMOOR, North Carolina––Granville County, North Carolina sheriff’s deputies on July 27, 2024 busted their biggest cockfight in at least a dozen years. “After days of tips,” reported Carly Haynes for WRAL television news in Raleigh, “an undercover […]