This is perhaps the wanton juvenility that irks some media traditionalists, even though the original item appeared in the New York Post: Big Brown, which will attempt to make history Saturday at the Belmont Stakes and attempt to become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to capture the Triple Crown, is going to be paid about $100,000 for each mare it impregnates. How will Big Brown spend the estimated $50 million it will collect in the coming years? [Lengthy pause.] This is what is commonly refereed to as sensory joke overload.

Big Brown to Get Busy (Sports Point)