George Ferguson Column: American Pharoah, please let me see a Triple Crown

If I’ve said in this column once, I’ve said it a thousand times, I’m a sports junkie. There isn’t much in the way of sports that I don’t care about.

In other words, name it and I’ve probably taken an interest in it.

And that includes the sport of horse racing. So yes, this Saturday is a big, big day for me.

By now, most know the name American Pharoah, but if you don’t, he’s the latest thoroughbred to win the first two legs of the famed Triple Crown … the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. That means that Saturday, in the Belmont Stakes, American Pharoah gets a cha...