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It's almost the first Saturday in May. Stick with us at DRF.com and you'll be ready at post time for the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby. Our fleet of reporters are already on the scene at Churchill Downs providing wall-to-wall coverage of racing's crown jewel. Here's a day-by-day preview of our coverage:

It's fitting that baseball season has begun because the folks at Fair Grounds have decided to play a doubleheader race card on Friday. Due to race day cancellations and a Louisiana state law that says all the purse money for the season must be paid out, Fair Grounds will stage an 18-race card on Friday. That's right. Eighteen.

"Today's the day they take it all away from us" -- Marcus It's hard not to look for hidden meaning to the dialogue in the final episode of HBO's ill-fated "Luck." The season finale that aired on Sunday night was supposed to set the stage for Season 2, which was already in production when the show was canceled following a third horse death on the set. But now that it serves as the series finale, Wheelchair Marcus's words bring on an added layer of poignancy.

The cancellation of HBO's Luck is still making waves in the media. On Wednesday, New York Magazine's culture blog, vulture.com, published a lengthy interview with "Luck" producers David Milch and Michael Mann. Read the entire interview here: The Vulture Transcript: Michael Mann and David Milch Open Up About the Cancellation of Luck Here are some key excerpts:

The opening sequence of the latest -- and penultimate -- episode of "Luck" answers a key question: Nathan Israel is indeed fish bait. Mike Smythe's goons cut up his body into pieces, put the pieces into garbage bags tied to anchors and send them down to the bottom of the ocean, never to be seen or heard from again. Kind of sounds like what HBO would like to see happen with "Luck," no?