Couch: Racing’s Problem Isn’t The Horse, It’s the Horse’s Ass

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What happens if Medina Spirit comes down the stretch in the lead at the Preakness Saturday, goes all-out, thanks to not feeling the pain in his legs and then. . .snaps his leg? Breaks down? What happens if Medina Spirit dies Saturday? Do you realize how close this entire sport of horse racing is to […]

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Written by Greg Couch

Greg earned the 2007 Peter Lisagor Award as the best sports columnist in the Chicagoland area for his work with the Chicago Sun-Times, where he started as a college football writer in 1997 before becoming a general columnist in 2003. He also won a Lisagor in 2016 for his commentary in RollingStone.com and The Guardian.

Couch penned articles and columns for CNN.com/Bleacher Report, AOL Fanhouse, and The Sporting News and contributed as a writer and on-air analyst for FoxSports.com and Fox Sports 1 TV. In his journalistic roles, Couch has covered the grandest stages of tennis from Wimbledon to the Olympics, among numerous national and international sporting spectacles. He also won first place awards from the U.S. Tennis Writers Association for his event coverage and column writing on the sport in 2010.