Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 10/19/2007

10/19/1985:
Brigham Young quarterback Robbie Bosco sets a new Western Athletic conference record with 585 yards passing, leading the Cougars to a 45-23 rout of the New Mexico Lobos. Bosco goes 42-for-61 with four touchdown passes to break former BYU quarterback Marc Wilson's record of 571 yards passing set in 1977 against Utah. After being the NCAA leader in total offense during BYU's unbeaten national championship season a year ago and placing third in the Heisman Trophy balloting, Bosco will finish third in the Heisman vote again this year.

Birthdays:
Lionel Hollins b. 1953
Tim Belcher b. 1961
Evander Holyfield b. 1962
Brad Daugherty b. 1965
Keith Foulke b. 1972

YOU’VE NEVER READ TONY HILLERMAN?

Tony Hillerman is one of the great mystery writers of all time. Hillerman sets his work in the American Southwest, and many of his best novels feature Joe Leaphorn, a Navajo Tribal Police detective. The Blessing Way, the first Leaphorn novel, concerns a murder victim whose assailant may have been a spirit. If you start on Hillerman and love him—few don’t—you will have years of reading pleasure awaiting you.

THE BLESSING WAY, by Tony Hillerman (1970; HarperTorch, 1990)