What are the Odds???

http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2009/racing-information/contenders/mine-bird

This year (2009) a small brown horse named  "Mine that Bird"  won the Kentucky derby with 50 to 1 odds. He ran fourth in a race in New Mexico that was never even mentioned. In fact, this horse wasn’t even talked about.

He was squeezed out of the gate BUT HE DIDN'T LET THAT BOTHER HIM. He was running dead last at the first turn BUT HE DIDN'T LET THAT BOTHER HIM. He was running dead last through the back stretch BUT HE DIDN'T LET THAT BOTHER HIM. Finally, his jockey let him start his move. He began passing horses like they were standing still. At the last turn, he was just halfway through the pack BUT HE DIDN'T LET THAT BOTHER HIM. He just kept running and passed all the leaders like they were standing still.. The unheralded 50-1 shot MINE THAT BIRD (Birdstone) won  a stunning 6 3/4-length victory in the $2,177,200 Kentucky Derby. HE DIDN'T LET THAT BOTHER HIM EITHER!

He won the race of races by a long ways. It was the second biggest upset in Kentucky Derby history!

Mesa High School Jackrabbits Football 2009

The Mesa High School Jackrabbits were put in a new region this year. This region was made up of the best of the best football teams. Everyone wondered why Mesa High was ever put in that region. They just didn’t belong. The last time they took state in Football was 1992!
Teams from Fiesta Region:

Red Mountain (Mesa, AZ)
Brophy College Prep (Phoenix, AZ)
Chandler (AZ)
Mesa (AZ)
Hamilton (Chandler, AZ)
Desert Vista (Phoenix, AZ)

This is the preview of teams at the beginning of the year:

5A-I Fiesta Region

Teams (last year’s record): Brophy (11-4), Chandler (8-4), Desert Vista (8-3), Hamilton (13-1), Mesa (6-5), Red Mountain (7-6)


Outlook: Yikes. At least four of these teams should make the playoffs, but given the schedule they’ll all face, all six will probably deserve to go, even if that’s not going to happen. In addition to playing half the schedule against this gauntlet of a region, Brophy, Chandler and Red Mountain also play 5A-II powerhouse Centennial, while the Mountain Lions also have nonconference tilt against Corona del Sol. Defending 5A-I champion Hamilton is probably the team to beat in this region, mostly because it has split with Brophy recently and has had success against the rest. Brophy must break in a new quarterback and seven starting spots on defense which hadn’t changed the previous two seasons. Chandler’s optimism is roaring because of its returning core and the most depth of any Jim Ewan-coached team. Desert Vista could sneak up on a few teams if the Thunder can stay healthy, but the Thunder lack depth. Pity Red Mountain and Mesa for their schedules. Hamilton and Brophy have combined to win the past six state championships, with Desert Vista having made a state title game appearance in 2007 and Chandler also capable, so it’s easy to imagine one or both championship game teams emerging from this region.


What’s new: Outside the team changes to the region and its likely effect on the rest of the 5A-I playoff picture, not much. Chandler and Hamilton are the only holdovers from the previous installments of the Fiesta, while Brophy, Hamilton and Red Mountain will have new signal-callers under center.

Mesa High's Schedule:
8/28/09 vs. Chavez (Laveen, AZ) 21-7 (W)
9/04/09 vs. Dobson (Mesa, AZ) 42-6 (W)
9/11/09 vs. Westwood (Mesa, AZ) 28-6 (W)
9/17/09 @ Chandler (Chandler, AZ) 17-24 (L)
9/25/09 @ Red Mountain (Mesa, AZ) 21-28 (L)
10/02/09 @ Horizon (Scottsdale, AZ) 28-7 (W)
10/09/09 vs. Desert Vista (Phoenix, AZ) 19-0 (W)
10/16/09 @ Brophy College Prep (Phoenix, AZ) 18-26 (L)
10/23/09 @ Maryvale (Phoenix, AZ) 52-0 (W)
11/06/09 vs. Hamilton (Chandler, AZ) 22-43 (L)

During the year Mesa High lost to all of the Fiesta region teams they played but one, but not by far. In fact they won enough games to go into the state playoffs. In their first game, they wholloped Red Mountain, a team that beat them earlier in the year. Everyone was so shocked. These little rabbits caused a big upset.
11/13 @ Red Mountain 37-10 (W)

The Rabbits were in the quarter finals! Surely, they had just been lucky. Now they had to play Brophy, another school they lost to during the regular season. No chance to win was the prediction. But those bunnies looked more like jack rabbits and they decimated Brophy. What a shock!
11/20 @ Brophy College Prep 13-3 (W)

Now Mesa High is in the semi-finals playing Mountain Pointe, another unbeaten team. Of course Mesa can’t beat this team! This team is just too good.

BUT THIS UNDERDOG TEAM WON'T LET THAT BOTHER THEM.

It’s like a little horse who ran a race in New Mexico that no one ever heard of. Yet he won big time even though no one thought he could. And, it didn't bother him at all.

GO MESA HIGH JACKRABBITS!

 

See #9?

He is another story!

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