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BRIEFLY ODD ODDS AT OPENER FOR HOLLYWOOD PARK.


Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Controversy greeted the Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
  • Hollywood Park, Texas
  • Hollywood Park, Chicago, a neighborhood in Chicago
  • Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California
  • Hollywood Park Racetrack, Thoroughbred race track in Inglewood, California
 season Wednesday when the odds on the first winner plummeted from 9-2 to 2-5 while the race was being run, reflecting a $118,000 wager from out of state.

A Hollywood Park spokesman said the track received complaining phone calls from fans who thought the huge bet was accepted illegally after the start of the race.

But track officials and a California Horse Racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with  Board spokesman said the bet was entered in the computerized pari-mutuel system in time through a wagering hub in Lewiston, Me., and that it wasn't reflected in the odds displays until after the race because of normal delays in transmitting data.

The race, a 4 1/2-furlong sprint for maiden 2-year-old fillies, was won by Global Finance, ridden by Kent Desormeaux Kent J. Desormeaux (born February 27, 1970, in Maurice, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year. . She rallied from fourth to win by 3 1/2 lengths over Hostility and paid $2.80, $6 and $2.40.

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     offensive lineman Nate Newton Nathaniel Newton (born December 20, 1961 in Orlando, Florida) is a former American football offensive lineman in the NFL who played for the Dallas Cowboys (1986–1998) and the Carolina Panthers (1999).  pleaded guilty to drug trafficking as part of a plea agreement. Other drug charges were dropped. Sentencing is July 19. He faces up to 20 years in prison, but his lawyer said Newton might only have to serve up to 2 1/2 years, with credit for time served.

    --Quarterback Shane Matthews Michael Shane Matthews (born June 1 1970 in Cleveland, Mississippi) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL. He most recently played for the Miami Dolphins, and collegiately at Florida. On March 2, 2007, Matthews officially retired from the NFL.  was released by the Bears after six years in Chicago.

    --Boulder, Colo., police and prosecutors will decide in the next few days whether to file charges in an alleged rape at a party attended by University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
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    • University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    • University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
    • University of Colorado system
     football players and recruits.

    GOLF: The back pain that kept Jack Nicklaus out of the Masters has subsided and he plans to play in this week's Countrywide Tradition in Arizona.

    --Tommy Bolt, 84, a U.S. Open winner with a temper that earned him the nickname ``Terrible Tommy,'' was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

    BOXING: Golden Gloves boxer Mitchell Rose has filed a $66 million suit against Mike Tyson, claiming the former heavyweight champion permanently damaged his spine during a fight at a Brooklyn, N.Y., nightclub last year.
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    Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
    Date:Apr 25, 2002
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