Ron Kantowski
Ron Kantowski is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
rkantowski@reviewjournal.com … @ronkantowski on Twitter. 702-383-0352
By the time you are reading this, 36-year-old Townsend Bell of San Francisco, who will start fourth in today’s Indianapolis 500 in a car fielded by Henderson’s Sam Schmidt, probably will have gotten a good night’s sleep — provided there wasn’t a party going on down the hall at his hotel in downtown Indianapolis, like the night before he qualified.
It was a little past 3 p.m. Saturday, and two women hoping to get bets down on the Kentucky Derby had talked their way into the VIP section at the Sunset Station race and sports book, the place where old guys with fat cigars pore over the Daily Racing Form and circle their choices at Golden Gate Fields and Prairie Meadows and Turf Paradise and Woodbine but not Ak-Sar-Ben, which is Nebraska spelled backward with hyphens.
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