Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 11/12/2007

11/12/1995:
After playing several games at Busch Stadium, the St. Louis (previously Los Angeles) Rams finally debut at their spanking-new $280 million Trans World Dome with a 28-17 win over the Carolina Panthers. Jim Miller throws a pair of touchdown passes and the Rams force six turnovers as pro football returns to the Gateway City for the first time since the Cardinals moved to Phoenix in 1988. Sadly, with the L.A. Raiders also moving back to Oakland this season, Los Angeles is left without an NFL franchise.

Birthdays:
Tuffy Leemans b. 1912
Ken Houston b. 1944
Nadia Comaneci b. 1961
Sammy Sosa b. 1968
Corey Maggette b. 1979

CHICK LIT FOR GROWN-UPS

Weiner is sometimes dismissed as a writer of “chick lit,” but don’t be fooled. Her books are smart, engaging, funny, and, many times, moving. Yes, they do concern young women, and yes, the women do sometimes worry about men and being single, but that might just be changing as Weiner herself grows up. Goodnight Nobody breaks new ground: Its heroine is a young mother. And not everything in her quaint suburban town is as it should be....

GOODNIGHT NOBODY, by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, 2005)