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Burton DeWitt Archives, Page 1 of 2

  1. From Belmont to Breeders' Cup: Horse Racing's Interim Story

    Insert cliché. Does it really matter which one I use?Horse racing is at a crossroads…Horse racing is hoping that any publicity is good publicity…Horse racing is down to its ...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about about 1 month ago 0 comments

  2. Tom Brady Fans Need To Get a Grip on Reality

    [The following is a retort to an article in the Oct. 3, 2008 issue of the Rice Thresher, which can be found here.] Let’s get one thing out of the way first: I don’t care about the National Football League...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about about 1 month ago 1 comments

  3. Oklahoma and Southern California Will Play for the BCS Title

    Pen it in now. Jot it down. Permanent ink. It's not going to change.Oklahoma will play Southern California for the national title. It's set. Plan your trip to Miami.Not Georgia, not Florida, not Wake Forest, not Wisconsin...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 2 months ago 18 comments

  4. Lack of Television Coverage of Paralympics Is a Crime

    Will someone slap me in the face? Please? Will someone bring me back to reality?Not tomorrow or next week, not after Hurricane Ike destroys my apartment in the upcoming 24 hours, not on Saturday when I find out, but now...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 2 months ago 2 comments

  5. Laveranues Coles is Still a Hero

    This is not topical. Not at all. It is not breaking news; heck, it barely was three years ago. It should have been, but things like this never are. We don't think of NFL stars as people...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 2 months ago 7 comments

  6. Horse Racing Needs Big Brown vs. Curlin More Than Ever

    Some things disappear. Vanish. Just go away.Sure, there are reasons, explanations, scapegoats, but the simple fact is that things disappear.Unfortunately, down that same path more things might disappear...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 3 months ago 0 comments

  7. I Was Wrong, Michael Phelps Is the Story of the Olympics

    I was wrong.There, I said it. I'm man enough to admit it. I'm human enough to admit it.I was wrong. 100 percent. Not even close to correct. W-R-O-N-G. No way around the bush...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 3 months ago 13 comments

  8. Ten Most-Needed Changes to Professional Tennis

    Now, there are many things that need to be changed in how professional tennis is operated. What I have here are the first 10 changes. There is no rhyme or reason to the order per se, but these are the first 10 alterations I would make...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 3 months ago 7 comments

  9. Beijing Olympics - Week One: The Real Stories

    There is Elizabeth Poblete of Chile, smiling jubilantly Friday afternoon after she snatched 86 kilograms on her first attempt in the 75-kilogram weightlifting women's final...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 3 months ago 2 comments

  10. Oak Tree to Unretire Seven of the Greatest Jockeys of All-Time, and Julie Krone

    Something here is not right.Like the kids game, which of these is not like the other: Cordero, Vasquez, Hawley, Day, McCarron, Bailey, Stevens, Krone...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 3 months ago 0 comments

  11. Alabama Fan Shows That Sports, Too, Can Be Inhuman

    I missed this story. Completely. Had no idea about it. And in some way, I'm glad I did. It's just so inconceivable, so inhuman that I would rather not even know about it.And until now, I did not know about it, living in permanent ignorance...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 3 months ago 9 comments

  12. Pimlico Race Course as Good as Closed

    This might as well be the end. This might as well be a funeral.For the past two decades, every horse racing news out of Maryland was one of contraction...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 3 months ago 2 comments

  13. The Elusive Escape of a Sportswriter

    I want to write this article; I really do. I want you to click on it, to read it, to laugh, maybe cry, maybe cringe, maybe email me about how much you hate it. I really do.But I have nothing, nothing at all...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 3 comments

  14. 25 Greatest American Thoroughbreds (Part 1/6)

    Eleven. Currently, that's the most important number in American horse racing. There have been eleven Triple Crown winners spread out over 59 years...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 2 comments

  15. Brett Favre Saga: Are You Into It? Me Neither

    Maybe I am alone. Maybe I am out of touch. Maybe I am just missing something. No matter what, I do not think it's a bad thing.When I woke up this morning, I made my normal voyage over to ESPN...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 16 comments

  16. Esther Vergeer is the World's Most Dominant Athlete

    Behind all the talk about Roger Federer's recent slump, and Rafael Nadal and Jelena Jankovic's climbs towards No. 1, is a story that few people care enough to know.In tennis, there is dominance...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 11 comments

  17. Roger Federer: A Courageous, Stupid Prediction

    Sometimes I keep my mouth shut even when I want to say something. In journalism, you have to. In this case, however, I should have spoken...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 45 comments

  18. Top 10 Golf Images of the Tiger Woods Era

    These are the 10 images that have defined golf since Tiger Woods first appeared in the Masters Tournament as an amateur in 1995. I have made this the cutoff for simplicity reasons...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 4 comments

  19. 26 Greatest Golfers To Win Only One Major Since World War II

    I am going with the same criteria as I did for the 25 worst golfers to win a major championship, with one change: I am making it a top-26. Why 26? It's simple...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 1 comments

  20. 25 Worst Major Champions Since World War II

    Okay. I've looked at every golfer to win one of golf's four male major professional tournaments and picked out the 25 worst to win a title. There have been some very obscure champions, three of which even won multiple titles...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 5 comments

  21. Dave Bliss: A Five-Year Retrospective

    There are numerous dates on which I could write this piece. I could have written it on June 15th, the five year anniversary of Patrick Dennehy's disappearance...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 7 comments

  22. Unheeded Words: Washington's Final Thunder

    Washington might not be a horse racing hotbed, but the small community in the Pacific Northwest has always loved its champions...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 0 comments

  23. Campeón, Sportmeister, There's Not Much in-Between

    There were some clichés I never thought I would say. Near the top of that list was “both men deserved to win...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 4 months ago 4 comments

  24. Five Reasons Georgia Will Win the National Championship—and the SEC

    As someone who jumped on the Georgia bandwagon early in November, I feel the need to respond to Tim Pollock's article on why Georgia will not win the title...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 5 months ago 14 comments

  25. Safin and Federer: A Three-and-a-Half Year Letdown

    Now I know what three and a half years feel like. Of course, I'd rather not have this feeling, not yet, but there's no denying it...

    Written by Burton DeWitt about 5 months ago 0 comments