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BALTIMORE – Art Sherman, trainer for Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome, didn't totally take it in stride Wednesday when his horse was made a big 3-5 favorite on the morning betting line to win Saturday's 139th running of the Preakness Stakes.

"Oh man, 3-5, it makes you want to choke," said Sherman, 77, shortly after his horse drew the No. 3 starting post in the 10-horse race and the morning line was set by the Maryland Jockey Club.

"But I wouldn't want to be in anybody else's position. Hey listen, when you lead a 3-5 favorite in the Preakness, you must have deserved to be that."

In the May 3 Kentucky Derby, California Chrome went off as a 5-2 favorite and became the first California-bred horse to win the Derby since Decidedly in 1962.

The Preakness will be the next test in California Chrome's bid to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. Since Affirmed, a dozen horses have won the first two legs on the Triple Crown, only to lose at the Belmont Stakes in New York. This year's Belmont is set for June 7.

Beyond California Chrome, only two other horses from the 19-horse Derby field are entered in the Preakness: Ride On Curlin (seventh in the Derby) and General A Rod (11th).

NEW YORK — Every five days, the New York Yankees' pitching problems disappear. Exhausted bullpen? Injured rotation? Call-up options running thin? None of it matters when Masahiro Tanaka has the ball.

"I think you could argue that he's been as valuable as anyone on our team," manager Joe Girardi said.

Wednesday was Tanaka's finest start of the season, and that's really saying something. In his Subway Series debut, Tanaka tossed a shutout to beat the Mets 4-0 at Citi Field. It was the Yankees' first win since Tanaka's previous start, and nearly a third of the team's wins belong to Tanaka this season.

"I'll just keep on working so that (Girardi) will make that type of comment in the future," Tanaka said.

BOX SCORE: Yankees 4, Mets 0

The Mets countered with a young phenom of their own, and highly touted prospect Rafael Montero pitched well in his major-league debut. He allowed three runs on five hits through six innings, but he was little match for Tanaka, a 25-year-old who's 6-0 with a 2.17 ERA through his first eight major-league starts. Tanaka famously went 24-0 in Japan last season, and the Yankees — and the rest of Major League Baseball — are seeing exactly why.

For American soccer fans, Landon Donovan is either the best American soccer player in history or the most frustrating American soccer player in history.

He's the USA's all-time leading goal scorer and assists leader, poised to play in his fourth World Cup. He's the oh-can-you-believe-this guy who scored the last-gasp goal against Algeria in the World Cup four years ago.

And he's also the player who seems to drift in and out of games like an ocean breeze, who has all the talent in the world but preferred to ply his trade stateside. He's the guy who took a sabbatical during World Cup qualifying and at the start of the Major League Soccer season.

Donovan may be a legend, but U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann isn't interested in building a team based on the past.

When Klinsmann met with his 30-man team for the first day of World Cup training camp Wednesday, Donovan was there. But will he be there when Klinsmann takes 23 players to Brazil?

ROSTER: Klinsmann names 30-man team

The offer stands, but NHRA drag racer Alexis DeJoria is never going to accept it.

Her father, billionaire entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria, says he'll pay his daughter $1 million if she'll have her tattoos removed. At first, he was serious, but over time the offer has faded into a running joke between them. The tattoos are first-rate, by some of the best artists in the country, and they define her.

In a roundabout way, body art helped a wealthy, famous father understand the daughter he calls his "wild child." The daughter who refuses to live the life of wealthy heiress. The daughter who goes 300 mph in a race car. The daughter whose tattoos can't be bought off.

Makes sense. After all, there's a lot of John Paul DeJoria in that ink.

"I tease her about having them removed, but they're part of who she is," DeJoria, 70, told USA TODAY Sports. "It's part of the connection she makes with people. In my day, you just didn't get tattoos unless you were in the Navy, but now it's more acceptable. I'm amazed at the amount of people who know who she is. Recently I was at a major event and at least a dozen people walked up to me and said, 'Can I shake your hand? I'm a big fan of Alexis.' "

MORE: DeJoria's roots show in billionaire father

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