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...Chapmans' place was a lunch-bucket operation that never earned much acclaim. In 2001 the farm took a devastating hit when trainer Bob Camac and his wife were shot to death by the wife's son in a quarrel over money. That sucked the life out of Roy--from whom emphysema was already sucking the breath--and he decided to sell out. Pat persuaded him to keep two horses, a pair of yearlings they sent to a farm in Florida so that its general manager, George Isaacs, could evaluate them. "Let's see what you have here," Isaacs said...
...when Chu fought his way to match point, his opponent called for the trainer, the second such time the Green Wave claimed an injury timeout at a pivotal moment...
...SMARTY JONES, 3, a redeemed lost cause; the 130th Kentucky Derby. Owner Roy Chapman almost sold all his horses after his trainer was murdered in 2001, but he kept two promising colts. That looked like a mistake when one of them, Smarty, smacked his head on a starting gate last summer, fracturing his skull. But the Philadelphia Flyer is now 70, the first undefeated Derby winner since 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew...
...certainly seemed that way. In 1998, when he was just 19, Pacquiao won a world flyweight title. Two years later, he added a world superbantamweight title. But it wasn't until manager Nazario hooked him up with Freddie Roach, a respected boxing trainer in Los Angeles, that Pacquiao began to reach his potential. "I could tell there was something inside him, but he had not yet discovered it because no one was teaching him," Nazario recalls. "That's why I decided to bring him to the States." Roach took Pacquiao's natural aggressiveness and fearlessness and combined them with defense...
...three weeks after President Bush made the war on steroids a priority in his State of the Union address, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the indictments of four men--two executives of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), track coach Remy Korchemny and Greg Anderson, a personal weight trainer whose clients include San Francisco Giants home-run king Barry Bonds--charging that they distributed steroids to top athletes...