Screenwriter Nancy Dowd's brother, Ned, played for the Jets, and she spent a month traveling with the team, and at other times had Ned set up a tape recorder in the locker room and on the bus to ...

I got back the money I had lost on the photo finish at Oaklawn. Three years later, a big-time horse player named Ned Dowd read this novel and must have thought that here was the way he could ...