Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 5/22/2007

5/22/1993:
The Seattle SuperSonics move into the NBA Western Conference finals, beating the Houston Rockets, 103-100, in overtime in the seventh game of their semifinal series. The Sonics, 55-27 during the regular season, prevail by the narrowest of margins when a potential series-winning baseline jumper by the Rockets' Vernon "Mad Max" Maxwell rims out with less than a second remaining. The home team wins all seven games of this intensely played series.

Birthdays:
Al Simmons b. 1902
Larry Siegfried b.1939
Mick Tingelhoff b. 1940
Tommy John b. 1943
George Best b. 1946

“A devilishly entertaining portrait of Kinsey.”—Entertainment Weekly

“The Inner Circle may draw readers in because of its sexy subject matter, but they will stay for the emotional punch of Boyle’s meditations on love, marriage and jealousy.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

“T. C. Boyle never lets you tear your eyes from the page.”—The Washington Post Book World

Wicked T. C. Boyle. As if his writing weren’t provocative enough on its own, he adds to the draw by writing about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. The Inner Circle is Boyle at his witty, trenchant best.

THE INNER CIRCLE, by T. C. Boyle (Penguin, 2005)