and gross tries to score, but thrown out by casey kotchman. and they are able to score.t garz a over the plate and pedroia makes him pay. garz a upset after pitching a great game. red sox take this one 3-1. rays drop their 10th in a row. pedr pedroia has a five-game winning streak. >> welcome in to another half-hour, 3:33 on the east coast, 12:33 to our loyal viewer necessary washington. >> alongside steve bunion, i'm michael kim. we have the n.f.l. and college football. we have 10 and is we'll have more reaction to the situation involving serena williams last night at the u.s. open. right here in my hand, fresh off the printer -- maybe not so fresh, but it is off the printer. the top 25 poll. >> steve bunion and michael kim joining you for another half-hour of of fun-filled action. >> can we get to the poll now? >> florida is number one. 56 of the 61st place votes going to the gators. they get ready for lane kiffin's visit to the swamp this weekend. we have two number five teams. that is right. two for the a.j. price of one. ole miss and penn state. last week oklahoma s

professor kotchman gives us a setting for that. what he says in the 1850's when the united states was just on the brink of the civil war it was also creating a national literature so american literature was coming io being as the self-conscious league american literature at the same time as the nation itself was starting to break aparp so reading moby dick along with the scarlet letter, along with the leaves of grass by walt whman, i can give you a sort of new understanding of wha each of those works is about singly and i also just want to say that the book, we didn try to legislate what would go into the book. we did not give them subject. the book is not encyclopedia. which is sort of happened the way it happened. >> guest: w ask people to touch on the subject tt forecloses to the core of their interests, the things they felt they could convey withashion to readers outside the academy, so when we have someone like thresher coachmen what is it that you love about the literature you are teaching, he said here is this moment right b