Matt Schera

@LandonTengwall Don’t forget the LA Bowl either.

My fiancée: “I’m so excited there’s no football on this weekend, we can spend the whole weekend doing Christmas stuff!” Me: *turns on the All-22 from every single Iowa State Offensive snap from 2025 and charts the entire Offense*

@Zigmanfreud Your football takes have been really bad today.

Penn State is now probably the 7th most attractive football team in the Big Ten conference for recruits when you combine the perception of the program/school, celebrity of the coach, and financial resources at their disposal…

@Zigmanfreud Why wouldn’t he want to score in the 3rd quarter down 15 that makes no sense.

I get that this looks BAD & people are right to speculate about a gambling motive, but it seems possible there’s another explanation. If the player didn’t want to score, then why go full speed after the catch & not just allow your momentum to carry you out of bounds immediately?

@blinachka @coloneljen

@coloneljen I miss it so!! I loved that place! Hope you don’t mind me sharing some of my photos here…

Racing Peeps:photo of the old Belmont. Near the paddock. My husband and I went nearly every weekend. Saw Rags To Riches beat Curlin. And The Green Monkey come in third. 😅

@SaratogaAngie And didn’t want to admit but I bet him lol.

@MattSchera Totally agree

Imagine if you bet your hard earned money on #6 Winit at 10-1 in the 9th race at the best racing meet in the country. The announcer acted like the horse didn’t even exist and provided you with nothing. Could they hire an announcer that can see or at least count to eight?

Hi, There are a lot of hotels not far from the track, can probably google that one. I would take her on a Wednesday or Thursday as those are the least crowded days. Make sure to get some kind of seating. If it’s a day when I’m there and I have a horse running (unlikely this year but not impossible-I’m really cutting back) I would be happy to take you and your mom into the paddock. Let me know if you end up going.

My horse friends: My mom has never been to Saratoga. She wants to go, and there's no way I'd subject her to a Belmont or Travers card up there. But I'd still love to get her there before it gets too hard for her. Thoughts on how to go about it? Day of week? Where to stay?

So the verification for Saturday: almost no rain between 12-6 pm. Partial victory this is what I was thinking could save the card. I got that right. Your chart showed continuous rain Saturday, that ended up being wrong. The problem was there was much more rain than expected Thursday into Friday, the heavy bands set up farther east (more in Lex) than I expected. I was wrong overall in saying that Keeneland made a making cancelling. It was a good idea to cancel due to the scope of the flooding in the region. I believe that all races will be off turf Sunday-Tuesday. Sunday also looks like they’ll be more rain during the race card than there would have been today.

@MattSchera @DRFHersh Forgot the image from NWS hourly weather forecast.

It's happening - no public announcement but I've gotten word from multiple horsemen - Friday moved to Monday, Saturday to Tuesday.

@AnnaSeitzFT @DRFHersh Thanks Anna where have the years gone!

@MattSchera @DRFHersh I love this so much. I haven’t heard from you in forever and you come with a strong forecast post, Matt! This made me so happy. I’m impressed! 😂

Joking aside, It’s a close call it will be bad in western Ky, southern Indiana, Ark, west Tenn….just looks to me to set up bad up there and not crush Lex until later if at all. I saw an opening where Saturday could be ok that’s all. Always safer to move to dry days in theory but how much of that do we want to do.

@johng032 @DRFHersh John! Don’t worry be happy! Lol.

I forecast weather (see profile) for a living and in a situation like this the NWS forecast is going to be very general where a top weather forecaster can be more specific. Nws forecasts like this give some of us a bad name. Keeneland needs better weather information. NYRA makes these mistakes all the time also. It’s a close call, in Lexington, yes but based on current data it was a mistake to move the card. It’s possible it could move in sooner so I can see the side of being safe but I’m feeling pretty good most of Saturday will be ok in Lex. That’s all just my thoughts. It doesn’t matter now since they moved it anyway.

@Ubercapper @DRFHersh We’ll verify Saturday.

@DRFHersh As an example here is nam rainfall for 2 pm Saturday: rain north of Lex..different story in lville. Later in day gets riskier so I would just have accelerated posts Saturday, have card end early maybe start early.

Mistake to move this card. Would love to know who is advising them. There is a pretty good chance that most of the heavy rain and thunderstorms will be north and west of Lexington, KY Friday and most of the 1st half of Saturday. The risk isn’t zero. Could move most times and be strategic if need be.

@OnwardState Unfollow this is dumb

JUST IN: Four-star combo guard Kayden Mingo has requested to be released from his letter of intent to join the Penn State men's basketball program. Mingo was rated as the highest recruit in program history. onwardstate.com/2025/04/01/rep…

@NWSNewYorkNY @nysmesonet 1.5” Greenwich Ct (Glenville section)

Good early morning everyone! If you are still awake and you are seeing snow in the Lower Hudson Valley or interior northeast New Jersey, let us know how much accumulation you have so far. Here is a look at the Warwick @nysmesonet camera showing snow covered grounds. Thank you!

@Mrider_24 @landon_tengwall Wow what a call

PSU Fans, drop your halftime thoughts below -Woody Marks looks like Reggie Bush -Penn State is getting no pressure on Miller Moss -PSU Offense is playing scared -Tyler Warren is the best weapon in CFB

@jmpaquette Great job Jessica, long day!

What a day. Filled with gratitude to be a part of it. Onward.

@Jenna11567 They do and they look like a good chance to be 6-0 against Bama. Having them at home I like tenn chances.

@MattSchera I think I’m about to switch to that game. Pretty sure Tennessee has this one in the bag 😝🤩