Although the Athletics’ first season in Sacramento hasn’t gone to plan, the franchise can still be fun to watch. A major reason is due to the rookie duo of first baseman Nick Kurtz and shortstop Jacob ...

After Bellamy Road galloped away from the field by 17 1/2 lengths in stakes record time to win the Wood Memorial last month, trainer Nick Zito was asked how the colt he trains for New York Yankees ...

The deaths of six people in Mechanicville last month are now ruled as four homicides and two suicides.A source close to the investigation told CBS6 on Friday. Greene County launches mental health ...

BALTIMORE, May 19 -- Nick Zito has a reputation for knocking them dead at the Alibi Breakfast, where trainers get up one by one to make excuses in advance of the Preakness Stakes. Yet when it came ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The horse who was supposed to win Saturday's Jim Dandy at the Spa didn't. At least that is what Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito thinks. That's because his horse, Fly Down, was the ...

Nick Zito is a long-shot kind of trainer, it seems. At least in the Belmont Stakes. The Hall of Famer who won the 2004 Belmont with Birdstone at 36-1 odds and the 2008 Belmont with Da' Tara at 38-1 ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Consider this column a preemptive strike. The last thing you want is to be ambushed by Nick Zito in the Belmont Stakes. Again. He never rubs it in, but then again, with his record ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- All Thursday morning, Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito had to find some wood. And whenever he saw some, he knocked on it. "I hope all goes well, knock on wood," Zito said and whacked ...

LOUISVILLE, KY. - Trainer Nick Zito said Monday that Noble Causeway and Sun King would run in the Preakness on Saturday, and High Fly could join them. Noble Causeway and Sun King, among the five ...

Ice Box has been put in as 3-1 favorite to win final leg of Triple Crown. Race horse Uptowncharlybrown, foreground, jogs on the track at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. on Wednesday. Uptowncharlybrown ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nick Zito knows the good part of the Kentucky Derby as a two-time winner. He also knows the heartbreak of America’s greatest race. Zito nearly joined fellow Hall of Fame trainer Bob ...