we'll also go west with bonanza and daniel boone.p next, the challenge of interracial love in the 60's... as michelle pheiffer stars in "love field." this is "through the decades." thanks for joining us,m bill this is "through the decades." thanks for joining us,m bill kurtis. [captioning funded by cbs sports division] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] jim: hello, everyone, welcome to the "cbs sports desk" presented by century link. i'm bill macatee. last night, in major league baseball action, seattle's felix hernandez took the hill against the a.l. leading astros and he got lit up. houston erupted for

i went back to, literally, my childhood and i thought, okay, francis marion, "the swamp fox," daniel boone, benedict arnold, the people that i was interested in. i mean, i went back to the well and i said just fundamentally who is the most interesting person i have ever heard of? and that was jackson. so i chose jackson and jackson led me into the war. >> and it obviously turned out to be a great decision. >> it was, but i'm glad he didn't live to gettysburg, but otherwise --. [laughter]. >> well, so now do a little compare and contrast with quanah parker. you know, again --. >> that was a whole different deal. >> but some similarities in, you know, thematically, you know. >> oh, thematically. >> it's a war book and the story of transformation, but obviously very different story, very different protagonist, and ultimately probably a very different process for writing the book. >> yeah. i mean, he was -- i mean, quanah was one of the great transforming figures of the american west as he crossed from being the greatest comanche warrior into being the leader of his tribe and peace. >> right.

over daniel boone, pretty touch tough to walk through the hallway being blockade of desks and chairscouldn't get out or n took their time there. and in let's take you to boyertown bears. hang on, they have new mascot. check it out. they went baaalistic. somebody brought sheep to school. uh-huh. so i don't know how they came up with a sheep, but they went for t1 more for up, okay, take a look at. that will can you see what it is at the top of the flag pole? that's a blow up doll. anibal ons. stuck on the top of the flag pole, sun valley, just get better from here, because guess who got called? the fire department. had to remove the young lady from the flag pole. can you imagine get that phonecall? uh the kids at the high school blow up doll at the top of the flag pole. they went out and took care of. that will we check in to see if anyone got in trouble for any of these prank. we've not heard back from any of the schools. once again nothing was malicious, no one got hurt. thanks again though to smack high pa for sharing those photos, and if you have a good picture of senior prank, we

a classic boon -- daniel: i talked to a republican congress that who is against it.ut all of the small companies that also depend upon it? he said they should be able to get it, but if there is no bank no one gets it. tom: of course, a conscious agenda is south of the border. which country? katia: i'm looking at puerto rico. i am always looking to see how countries handle their restructuring. how countries treat their creditors and it restructuring and how creditors fight among themselves. where is the money going to be allocated, who is going to get paid? tom: is puerto rico buffeted by the new cuba? the new cuba coming. what does that mean for the commonwealth of puerto rico? katia: i am not sure, but nothing is going to happen with cuba anytime soon. that is going to take a while. tom: my agenda -- we save greece for the last, and of course it will not go away. my major agenda on greece is the disagreement over some form of new currency or whether it will be restructuring forgiveness or a new drachma and depreciation. i thought mohamed el-erian is on this. he real