Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!

The week of the Oklahoma State game, the national sports magazine ESPN even put the two players on its cover, with the title БЂњCHASE DANIEL MIGHT WIN THE HEISMANБЂ«БЂ“ referring to the trophy given to college footballБЂ™s best player. БЂњHIS BACKUP COULD WIN THE SUPER BOWL.БЂ«Why did everyone like Patton so much? It wasnБЂ™t clear. Maybe he looked good in practice. Maybe it was because this season in the NFL a quarterback who had also never started in a single college game is playing superbly for the New England Patriots. It sounds absurd to put an athlete on the cover of a magazine for no particular reason. But perhaps thatБЂ™s just the quarterback problem taken to an extreme. If college performance doesnБЂ™t tell us anything, why shouldnБЂ™t we value someone who hasnБЂ™t had the chance to play as highly as we do someone who plays as well as anyone in the land? 4. Picture a young preschool teacher, sitting on a classroom floor surrounded by seven children. She is holding an alphabet book, and working through the letters with the children, one by one: БЂњA is for appleБЂ¦C is for cow.БЂ«The session was taped, and the videotape is being watched by a group of experts, who are charting and grading each of the teacherБЂ™s moves ...»