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MONDAY’S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:MLB: Minnesota at St. Louis, 8:10 p.m. (ESPN)MLB: Houston at Oakland, 11 p.m. (MLB Network)NBA: Boston at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. (TNT)NBA: Toronto at Cleveland, 8:30 p.m. (TNT)NHL: Washington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. (NBCSN)NHL: Nashville at Winnipeg, 9:30 p.m. (NBCSN)
AROUND THE WEB:
“No I was demoted because I was white & made too much. First to go. Actually…”
Actually, she wasn’t demoted, she was essentially fired.
She later deleted the tweet.
“I think there were a number of factors into laying me off,” McHenry told Deadspin. “I wish nothing but the best for the people there.”
-- Justify won the 144th Kentucky Derby on Sunday and a woman from Texas benefited greatly from the victory.
Margaret Reid of Austin made an $18 bet on a series of races that day and won a whopping $1.2 million. She picked her first four race winner correctly and picked Justify to win the Derby.
“It was a big ticket because it was a couple of long shots in the middle of it," Reid said.
Her win was almost the same as Justify’s $1.24 million prize.
“It’s extremely rare,” Retama Park spokeswoman Rachel Bagnetto said. “To bet that little amount of money and win $1.2 million is unheard of. In fact, it’s the first time it’s happened at Retama.”