One question nags at us: Is this a Rich Strike moment?
The thoroughbred filly that beat 80-to-1 odds to win the Kentucky Derby is the greatest underdog to prevail in the Run for the Roses in more than a century. Her victory came in the same week that Louis Domingue, the journeyman Pittsburgh Penguins goalie — who spent more time in hockey's minors than in the NHL and bounced around to five teams before he finally made it to sporting headlines — emerged as the hero of the playoffs, a third-stringer catapulted to the starting position and to fame when the team's two other netminders were sidelined.
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