Unca Darrell

MAY 18 / Take a (vicarious) break. Go out to the ballpark for . . .

 . . . a nice high school softball playoff game, courtesy of Unca D, photographer.

SEPTEMBER 22 / Stuff to read

THE WORLD's Most Valuable Sports Teams, according to Forbes:

1. Real Madrid, Soccer, $3.26 billion, with an asterisk (see below)

2. Dallas Cowboys, Football, $3.20 billion, with the same asterisk

SEPTEMBER 10 / Three of the top-ten

. . . home-field advantages in college football belong to Texas teams. So says Prediction Machine, "a statistical outlet that simulates games," as reported in the nation's very best newspaper sports page . . .

JULY 10 / The progressive left, including . . .

. . . the leftist JV known as The Houston Chronicle, politicizes everything, including breakfast, the taking of a breath, and Thanksgiving.

That's too kind: Leftists moralize everything: Disagree and you're evil. Nothing is important except as it advances the agenda, and everything advances the agenda.

The latest example is . . .

JULY 2 / Teachout on the dumbing down of literary study

IT'S CERTAINLY NO SECRET that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is too much.

JUNE 30 / No. 99 is No. 29

FORBES Magazine ranks J.J. Watt as the world's 29th highest-paid athlete over the past twelve months at $27.9 million total -- $20.9 million in salary and $7.0 million in endorsements.

No. 1 highest-paid athlete, according to Forbes:

FEBRUARY 4 / The Houston Rockets . . .

. . . are worth . . .

SEPTEMBER 10 / Does baseball's defensive shift work?

STEVE MOYER of Inside Edge, a baseball analytics shop, says . . . 

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: . . .