Sheepshead Bay Stakes - Troy Record
25 May 2012, 11:42 pm
That is, it is run at a distance of one and three-eighths miles and it has drawn a full field of 10. Normally a race of this type in New York will get fewer than eight horses, sometimes only five or six. The Sheepshead Bay's savior is that it is ...

Update On Injured Rosecroft Drivers - Standardbred Canada
23 May 2012, 10:44 am
The accident occurred in the fifth race when the lead horse, Pinderonabender, driven by William Carter, took a bad step approaching the final three-eighths of a mile point of the race. That started a chain reaction that involved seven of the nine horses in ...

Man says he 'just freaked out' when he killed Kenosha woman - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
22 May 2012, 9:23 pm
Saucier, 52. According to the complaint, Young said he took three-eighths of an ounce of crack cocaine to Saucier's residence Monday morning and that he didn't think he'd ever be smoking so much of the drug at once. He said Saucier began ...

The Meddlesome Moth Serves A State Fair-esque Treat, Minus the Food Coma - Dallas Observer (blog)
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
Sounds like a food coma waiting to happen, right? Slabs of high-quality Nueske's bacon are sliced about three-eighths of an inch thick and threaded on wooden skewers before being seared on the flat-top. The finished product offers the decadent unctuousness ...

Wisconsin union wages battle on behalf of convicted teacher - Daily Caller
18 May 2012, 4:12 pm
The lawsuit has already cost taxpayers more than $64,000. The site reports that Kostelecky had his teaching load reduced from five-eighths of a full-time position to three-eighths. The district claimed the reduction was in an effort to save money.

Apple to increase size of iPhone screen, reports say - San Jose Mercury News
16 May 2012, 7:57 pm
If rumors are true that the screen's diagonal will grow from 3.5 to 4 inches, that would mean those three-eighths-of-an-inch-square app icons would make fatter targets for your fingers. Your three-fourths-inch-diagonal digits on the phone's ...

Salesforce.com: Q1 Net Loss Of $19.5M On Sales Of $695M. Benioff Says It’ll Have Its First $3B Year FY2013 - TechCrunch
16 May 2012, 6:59 pm
In a research note, Canaccord Genuity analyst Richard Davis noted that he thinks shares of Salesforce.com might rise by as much as three-eighths percent on Friday, due to “at least temporary exhaustion of risk-off selling of high valuation ...

'American Idol' Race To Finale: What Should They Sing? - MTV
16 May 2012, 12:54 pm
Kaufman It's nice of him to take time off from his "Idol" crown fittings (Scotty McCreery was a 7 and three-eighths, BTW) to grace us with his presence this week. I suspect he'll reward us with more of the same anyway. The judges should just have him do a ...

Sky Mesa Filly Tops Barretts May Sale Workers - Bloodhorse.com
11 May 2012, 6:58 pm
In addition three colts breezed a furlong in :10 at the Fairplex Park five-eighths oval in Pomona, Calif. Most of the times ranged in the :10 1/5 to :10 4/5 range as 65 youngsters breezed an eighth at the preview. Consignors also sent out ...

Dan Carter shift to 12 for All Blacks on cards - Stuff
8 May 2012, 7:38 pm
Dan Carter's slow recovery to full fitness with his troublesome groin has All Blacks coach Steve Hansen admitting the star five-eighths could see action at 12 against Ireland. It seems the All Blacks might be prepared to replicate the Crusaders' ploy and ...