Unca Darrell

FEBRUARY 11 / Numbers

$568,000,000

SEPTEMBER 22 / I've put it off and put it off, but . . .

. . . today it must be done. So let's perform our usual Saturday ablutions -- giving to charity, contributing to Romney -- then hear a long-overdue disquisition by Unca D, his own self, on one of America's most-important cultural treasures: . . .

AUGUST 12 / The only thing more boring than . . .

. . . track, goes a very old joke, is . . .

AUGUST 10 / Touchy-feely sports news

A review of the first 25 plays [in the U.S. women's volleyball victory over China last week] shows that the six Americans on the court shared . . .

SEPTEMBER 9 / If Krauthammer said it, then . . .

. . . it must be true. On Fox All-Stars, he just predicted the Super Bowl would be won by . . . 

SEPTEMBER 22 / Sport of kings?

HORSE RACING is a dying industry, but NASCAR is fat and happy. Guess why? 

MAY 15 / UPDATED: Don't bet on the Preakness or . . .

. . . any other sporting event. I mean it. But . . . 

MAY 1 / UPDATED: Unca D, gifted handicapper

FORMERLY TITLED: What happens on the first Saturday in May?

THE KENTUCKY DERBY, about 5:20 5:24 p.m. today.

It's fun to watch the best three-year-old equine athletes in action, but Unca D counsels you, sincerely, to stay away from . . .

OCTOBER 28 / Garrison in the News

FROM MY hometown newspaper and, by proxy, yours, Garrison in the News, October 1, 2009. Today's edition features Bozy Adams's plan to walk around the world by age 86 and the famous midnight football practice of 1954.

JULY 30 / Paging Sylvester Carmouche

HEAVY SMOG in Beijing should be seen as an Olympics-sized opportunity, not a problem.