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Launched in 2003 as part of NBA All-Star weekend, the NBA Celebrity Game has proven to be one of the most popular events during this celebration of basketball, bringing to the hardwood actors, comedians, singers and athletes from other skills to showcase their roundball skills. Pehaps the most surprising aspect of the game isn't how many stars have game, but how many Canadian celebs there are who can ball.

The first Kentucky Derby qualifying race in North America to offer 50 points to the winner goes this Saturday from Fair Grounds in New Orleans with the running of the $400,000 (G2) Risen Star Stakes. Ten have drawn into the field to run 1 1/16 miles on the Fair Grounds dirt course.

If someone asked you who owned the Detroit Red Wings and the answer you came up with was the Ilitch family, you'd be correct. The pizza barons have owned the club since the early 1980s. But you know who else owns the Wings? The Tampa Bay Lightning. Tampa Bay has won 10 in a row from Detroit, and 17 of the last 21 since the start of the 2013-14 season.

The very first Oaks and Derby races in the world, the Epsom Oaks and Epsom Derby have been run continuously in the UK since the late 1700s. This year's races are set to go on June 1, and June 2, respectively, and today we take a look at a few of the double-digit future bet options at Bovada.

They will be playing the game at the Staples Center, but they will be playing it like they were on the playground. Defense be damned, the NBA All-Star Game is all about putting on a show. It will be a day filled with long-range threes, spectacular dunks, no-look passes and wonderful ball handling. So who are you betting, Team LeBron or Team Stephen? It's time to make that call.

No matter how you slice it, when the Houston Rockets meet up with the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Rockets slice and dice the T-Wolves. Houston has won three in a row from Minnesota. They have also taken 11 of the last 12 games between the two teams and 15 of the last 17. You have to go all the way back to the 2011-12 season to find Minnesota beating Houston more than once.

The UFC comes to Australia for the 11th time, but UFC 221 will be the first card ever to be contested in Perth. The main event for the tilt Down Under has gone under a couple of times. Originally slated as a middleweight title unification bout between Georges St-Pierre and David Whittaker, both fighters eventually pulled out, ultimately leaving Luke Rockhold and Yoel Romero to contest the main event.

When it comes time to talk about the hottest team in the NHL, lately the talk starts and stops with the Boston Bruins. The Bruins have points in 22 of their last 23 games, going 18-1-4. You won't hear any such talk regarding the Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres have points in two straight games (1-0-1) but in just 11 of their last 23 (7-12-4).

There's only one Kentucky Derby qualifying race on the schedule for Saturday, but it should be a good one. The (G3) Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs goes 1 1/16 miles on the dirt and offers a purse of $250,000, while the field includes two runners currently in the Top 20 in Derby qualifying.