Bleacher Report: Examining the Next Sports Droughts to End After American Pharoah's Triple Crown

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

Before Saturday, it had been 37 years since a horse won the Triple Crown—an extra carrot or two for you, American Pharoah. And now that Affirmed's 1978 win has essentially been removed from the minds of sports fans, we’re off to decide what improbability is next to be conquered.

Will it be someone hitting .400 in the majors, a college basketball or NFL team going undefeated or even Novak Djokovic winning the French Open after another disappointment?

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Bleacher Report: Triple Crown Mystique Lives on as California Chrome Falls Short at 2014 Belmont

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

Such an impossible dream — a bargain-basement $8,000 horse, virtually flying in, some sort of mythical Pegasus, to take the Triple Crown and save the troubled sport of racing.

"A fairy tale," said one of the colt's owners, Steve Coburn. But in this tale the wolf blows down the brick house. In this tale the frog never becomes a prince.

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