saratoga was the lowest level of horseracing going on. he looked down at a very ugly horse and so did his wife and they were watching him and he that hurt eliminated the horse would win and she felt this was silly and said no and took the best but said he wouldn't win and he did. they shared their lemonade and they both had a tradition and he was a man whose intuition was superb to be if he could recognize potential and he liked this horse. there was something about him. he told the trainer to look at him and he bought him. >> the headbutt. >> they went back to look at the horse and they recognized him from having seen him early in his career. he liked the personality of the horse. he had lost and lost and lost. but there was something about him he liked. he brought charles howard over to the barn area and said you better look at him. the horse gave him a big headbutt. >> there are -- i think personally there are probably three climaxes' to this book. war data model and brand and frankly how you piece together almost how you put the and t

. >> if we keep track of what happens to horses in horseracing, don't we owe it to the athletes to keep track of what's going on in college sports? >> reporter: of the top 25 college football programs contacted by abc news, 16 of them refused to say whether they use toridol. only four including usc admitted they did. armen armistead says he is now fully recovered, and to prove that to nfl scouts, he played in the canadian football league where his team, toronto, won that country's version of the super bowl, and he was named to the all-star team as a rookie, all done without any toridol, a drug armistead says he would like now to see banned. >> if you can't play through the pain, maybe you should just sit out and rest and let your body heal. >> reporter: in our investigation, six of top college football programs told us they do not use toridol, including oklahoma and nebraska, which said they stopped using the painkiller last season following growing concerns about the risks, which by the way, bill, in addition to heart attacks, also include internal bleeding and kidney failure. bill? >>

, drawing endless amounts of money. 20 for seven new site will cover his politics is that it's a horserace and the horse are on steroids coming in to fund the campaign. but we mean by the uncompromising mindset is a minor that cared towards election and not towards governing. >> host: president gutmann come at you right to chew in your co-author, dennis thompson as we observe the changing scene in american politics, we came to believe the general problem could be addressed by concentrating on a particular institution, the united states congress. why is that? >> guest: if you want to see the problem with the uncompromising mindset, look no further than the 112th congress in washington. gridlock, nothing gets past the least legislation in the last 50 years. why? everybody's campaigning all the time. there's very little by way of relationships across the aisle and we ran up to a break of the debt ceiling crisis in compromise was reached, retaining the half. we sat by focusing on the problem of congress whose popularity is at all-time lows. you can account for the 9% popularity by blood relati

i do not completely condemn horserace coverage. that is a big part of the story. the problem is, what isn't covered. one gets completely fixated on the gaffs. who said this, how did that have an impact, some of these are really quite revealing. even those, i cannot entirely condemn. you have your 47% remark, which anyone would argue could possibly be extremely revelatory. he said he did not mean it, then later, after the election, pretty much said the same thing again, speaking about governor romney. it did tell us a lot. it had a great impact. at least for a while, the poor first debate performance. this is part and parcel of american life, part of democracy. the problem is, we are wired for narrative. we like stories. we organize our information in the form of stories. there are lots of breaking news items that do not let themselves to narratives. but we have to use it anyway. it is part of what is wired in to the way that we organize and interpret information. it is wired into the business of journalism. for instance, discussions of tax policy. obamacare and so

completely coo ndemn horserace coverage. one gets fixated on a hunt for gaffes. who said what? some are quite revealing. i cannot entirely condemn. you have the 47% remark which could be relevatory. he said he didn't mean it and then after the election he pretty much said the same thing again. it did tell us a lot and had a great impact. at least for a while, the president's poor debate performance. these are all part and parcel of american life and democracy. the problem is that we are wired for that. we organize our information in the form of stories. there are lots of breaking items that really don't lend themselves, but we have to use it anyway. it is part of what is wired in to the business of journalism. for instance, discussions of tax policy, discussions of obamacare, and so forth. once you have said, can you say it again? to keep reporting the same thing over and over again, every time somebody represents it. >> how would you characterize the way the press handled this election compared to other elections? >> they all suck, let's face it. i cannot remember one that i t