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

Veterans Day
Remembrance Day (Canada)
11/11/1978:
Eddie Lee Ivery sets a new NCAA rushing record of 356 yards (in only 26 carries) in one game, leading Georgia Tech to a 42-21 rout of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Ivery breaks off lengthy touchdown runs of 73, 80 and 57 yards on his way to breaking the 350-yard standard set by Eric Allen of Michigan State against Purdue in 1971. His last score ends an Air Force comeback after the underdog Falcons closed to within a touchdown at the start of the fourth quarter in a game played in frigid, blustery conditions.

Birthdays:
Fuzzy Zoeller b. 1951
Roberto Hernandez b. 1964
John Jett b. 1968
Damion Easley b. 1969
Oksana Baiul b. 1977

British novelist Berger won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for this novel of a man referred to simply as “G.” whose sexual conquests form the basis of the author’s meditation on sex—the events leading up to it, the feelings it engenders, and what happens afterward. “Fascinating,” says The New York Times, “an extraordinary mixture of historical detail and sexual meditation...G. belongs in the tradition of George Eliot, Tolstoy, D. H. Lawrence, and Norman Mailer.”

G.: A NOVEL, by John Berger (Vintage, 1992)