By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Deal of the day
NBC will broadcast all three legs of horse racing's Triple Crown through 2015, meaning all three races will be on one network for the first time since 2005. NBC already had the rights to the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, but ABC had been carrying the Belmont for the past five years. Meanwhile, the network said it and Versus will provide 25 hours of coverage associated with the races, including the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and other Preakness-day and Belmont-day programming.
House of the day
Former Dolphins star QB Dan Marino finally sold his South Florida home after having it on the market for six years. And he didn't get what he wanted for it. The 19,500-square-foot home, which sits on a 4.3-acre peninsula near the Everglades, went on the market in 2005 with an asking price of $15.9 million. He sold it for $7.2 million.