Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 5/14/2007

5/14/1983:
Cam Nelly scores three goals to lead the Portland (Oregon) Winter Hawks to an 8-3 victory over the Oshawa Generals for the Memorial Cup championship. For the first time in history, the games to determine Canadian Junior Hockey supremacy are played in the United States, enabling the Winter Hawks to compete for the Cup as the host team despite not winning their Western League title (another first). The Winter Hawks added to their roster before the event, picking up topflight goalie Mike Vernon in a controversial move that will bring about next year's rule change precluding such 11th-hour roster additions.

Birthdays:
Gump Worsley b. 1929
Tony Perez b. 1942
Dick Tidrow b. 1947
Dennis Martinez b. 1955
Pooh Richardson b. 1966

LITERARY FICTION

Brookner’s acclaimed short novel is a meditation on love. Romance novelist Edith Hope is sent by friends to a Swiss hotel to recover from a disastrous social transgression. Hope interacts with the guests at the hotel and meditates on her behavior and fate. The Christian Science Monitor calls Hotel du Lac “spellbinding.” Anne Tyler, writing for The New York Times Book Review, says it’s “Brookner’s most absorbing novel...graceful and attractive.”

HOTEL DU LAC, by Anita Brookner (Vintage, 1995)

Hotel du Lac won England’s prestigious Man Booker Prize.