http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/sp...r=2&ref=sports

Claire Novak's showing 'em how it's done at the NY Times. She did a piece on Scooter Dickey and Flat Out in the Classic. That's more like it. One of the great stories of the championships would be if Scooter Dickey won the Breeders' Cup Classic. Admit it, we'd all be bawling right along with Scooter. There are great people stories here if only they'd write them. Haskin and Claire can't do it all by themselves.

I like Joe Drape and think he does a fine job getting coverage in the paper of record.

He's gonna have to cover some of the unsavory aspects of the sport from time to time, and it would be pretty tough to get a horseracing cheerleader employed by the New York Times.