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San Francisco 49ers' Kyle Juszczyk (44) falls into the end zone for a touchdown the Kansas City Chiefs during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game
Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Associated Press
AT PRESS TIME:
It’s halftime at Super Bowl 54, with San Francisco and Kansas City tied 10-10.
This is the first time the Super Bowl was tied at the half since 2015, when Seattle and New England went into the break knotted at 14.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is 12 for 18 passing for 104 yards. Garoppolo is 9 for 11 for 89 yards and the game’s lone passing touchdown.q
Baffert earns 3,000th win with Thousand Words at Santa Anita

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Hall Stakes for a record eighth the 3-5 favorite in the field
of Fame trainer Bob Baf- time. “I had a feeling it of six 2-year-olds. He was
fert got his 3,000th career was going to happen in purchased for $1 million at
victory when Thousand this race,” he said about the 2018 Keeneland Sep-
Words won the $100,000 his 3,000th victory. “The tember yearling sale and
Robert B. Lewis Stakes on first 50 wins were prob- is unbeaten in three starts.
Saturday. Thousand Words ably the hardest, 100 were “He ran very well,” winning
won by three-quarters of a life-changers. I feel very jockey Flavien Prat said.
length in the Grade 3 race blessed and fortunate “He put me in a good spot
named for Baffert’s late that I’ve been able to last and he was comfortable In a photo provided by Benoit Photo, Thousand Words and
client. The colt ran 1 1/16 in this business and do so down there. He took the jockey Flavien Prat win the Grade III $200,000 Robert B. Lewis
miles in 1:43.64 at Santa well after coming from the dirt (in his face) well and Stakes horse race, giving trainer Bob Baffert his 3,000th win,
Anita to earn 10 points on quarterhorse business.” when I asked him to run, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.
the Kentucky Derby lead- Dale Baird holds the ca- he really accelerated.” Associated Press
erboard that determines reer wins record by a train- Royal Act paid $8.60 and fying points. High Veloc- points. The victory, worth
the 20-horse field for the er with 9,445. $4.40 at 18-1 odds in his ity, also trained by Baffert, $60,000, increased Thou-
race in May. Thousand Words paid first start on dirt. He earned returned $2.40 to show. sand Words’ career earn-
Baffert also won the Lewis $3.20, $2.60 and $2.10 as four Kentucky Derby quali- He received two Derby ings to $211,000.q