Jim Rome co-owns Breeders’ Cup Classic favorite (The Associated Press)
Jim Rome is a softie as a horse owner. ”I’ve been lucky,” Rome said in a phone interview this week. Plus, he was simply ”pushing buttons,” a specialty for a guy who still may be most famous for a decades-old confrontation with former NFL quarterback Jim Everett. After Rome repeatedly called him ”Chris” – in reference to women’s tennis star Chris Evert – on a live broadcast in 1994, Everett flipped over a table and knocked Rome out of his seat.