Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 2/13/2010

2/13/1972:
Forty-five-year-old Bob Rosburg wins the 90-hole Bob Hope Desert Classic with a final-round 5-under-par 67 to nip Lanny Wadkins by one stroke at Palm Springs, California. It's Rosburg's first tournament victory in 11 years and will be the last title of his PGA career. Johnny Miller loses a chance to win the event or force a playoff by 3-putting three of the last four holes. Developing a second career after entering semiretirement, the engaging Rosburg will go on to become one of golf's foremost color commentators.

Birthdays:
Patty Berg b. 1918
Eddie Robinson b. 1919
Mike Krzyzewski b. 1947
Mats Sundin b. 1971
Randy Moss b. 1977

Packers Fact:
The Packers celebrated the 50th anniversary of Lambeau Field in the 1007 season.

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CLASSIC LOVE

In First Love, 16-year-old Vladimir falls hopelessly for the girl next door, Zinaida. She is five years older than he, and a number of other suitors compete for her attention. She does not discourage the boy, however, and he persists as the narrative moves on to a rather astounding ending. Read it for its sensitive evocation of youth’s eye-opening introduction to the power of love. Spring Torrents, about a 22-year-old and the passion he feels for a true femme fatale, is another of Turgenev’s omniscient looks at a perennial theme.

FIRST LOVE, by Ivan Turgenev, translated from the Russian by Isaiah Berlin (1860; Penguin Classics, 2007)

SPRING TORRENTS, translated from the Russian by Leonard Shapiro (1872; Penguin Classics, 1980)

“OLD SPECKLED HEN”

Morland Brewing, Suffolk, England

A draft can beer, widget-infused with a slew of nitrogen bubbles, Old Speckled Hen is a beauty. Reddish-amber in color, with the classic nitrogen tap head, this English bitter is pretty strong for the style at 5.2%/vol. Malt is the headliner here, and this chicken is basted with a molasses, treacle, and biscuity toasted grain. A silky flavor smoothness ensues, partially thanks to the draft can, but also to the impeccable balance of malt and kettle hops. A fine modern version of an English pub bitter.