Is there a better sibling pair in sports than Jeff and Ward Burton?
Jeff, the youngest of the Burton brothers has two wins in 2000. Ward has one. Both Burtons are challengers for a first championship. At the halfway point, Ward is fourth, and Jeff is fifth — both less than 215 points out of first. Unlike Venus and Serena Williams of tennis fame, these two siblings play each other every weekend and manage to keep the peace at the family gatherings. • Does Darrell Waltrip have a victory lap left in Victory Tour 2000? In what may be the saddest story of a storied career, the time is running out on Waltrip’s final parade in the Winston Cup ranks. Brother Michael puts it like this: “I was watching Pebble Beach the other day and Jack Nicklaus was making what was maybe his final appearance in the U.S. Open, and he was struggling home. He got in on an exemption, and they said it could be his last one if we can’t figure out how to get Jack into one more, this could be it. “I think about our sport, and I say, why can’t people be talking about Darrell that way?
