Jul 23, 2020 2 min read

Adios odds

Papi Rob Hanover, runner-up in last week’s Meadowlands Pace, has been installed as the heavy 3-2 morning line favorite in his elimination for the $450,000 Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids at The Meadows. Also tabbed as morning line favorites in Saturday’s eliminations are Sandbetweenmytoes (3-1) and Elver Hanover (5-2).

The first three finishers in each elimination return for the Aug. 1 final.

The eliminations card, which kicks off at 12:45 p.m., also features a pair of stakes for 3-year-old filly pacers – a $188,682 Pennsylvania Sires Stake and a $100,000 PA Stallion Series event – and a $16,582.20 carryover in the final-race Super Hi-5.

In football

The NFL team formerly known as the Redskins will go by the Washington Football Team for at least the 2020 season, giving the organization time to choose a new, full-time name.

Gone is the Indian head logo and the name Native American advocates have called a dictionary-defined racial slur. Here to stay are the burgundy and gold colors that are synonymous with the franchise’s storied history.

In hockey

The name Seattle Kraken seems to have had an air of inevitability around it even during the earliest days of the NHL expansion franchise.

The franchise made those early fans happy Thursday when it revealed the team would, indeed, be called the Kraken.