Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 12/13/2007

12/13/1998:
On a rainy day in Richmond, Virginia, Indiana wins the NCAA men's soccer championship with a 3-1 victory over Stanford. It's the fourth national title for the high-scoring Hoosiers, who blanked Santa Clara, 4-0, in the semis. The seven goals recorded by Indiana in the Final Four are the most by any team in 35 years.

Birthdays:
Larry Doby b. 1924
Ferguson Jenkins b. 1943
Larry Kenon b. 1952
Bob Gainey b. 1953
Sergei Fedorov b. 1969

WEIRD SCIENCE

“Graceful and inviting.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A terrific piece of ecological reporting.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Highly readable and thought provoking.”—New Scientist

What if the greatest threat to nature is nature itself? Veteran science writer and editor of Discover considers the consequences of our ever-narrowing world. Australian snakes take commercial airliners to Hawaii. European zebra mussels ride tankers to American waters. With what results?

OUT OF EDEN: AN ODYSSEY OF ECOLOGICAL INVASION, by Alan Burdick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)