Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 2/5/2010

2/5/2005:
Zab Judah of Brooklyn wins the unified welterweight championship of the world on a TKO in the ninth round against Cory Spinks at the Savvis Center in St. Louis. Spinks, son of former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, scored a unanimous 12-round decision against Judah just last April, but it's a different story tonight. Judah is the aggressor from the start and leads comfortably on all three scorecards when the bout is halted after a wobbly Spinks is knocked down for a second time. Annexing the WBC, WBA and IBF titles with this win, Judah will proceed to lose three straight fights from January 2006 through June 2007, thereby surrendering all three of his championship belts.

Birthdays:
Hank Aaron b. 1934
Roger Staubach b. 1942
Craig Morton b. 1943
Darrell Weltrip b. 1949
Roberto Alomar b. 1968

Packers Fact:
Two members of the Packers' defense earned Pro Bowl berths in the 2007 season: end Aaron Kampman and cornerback Al Harris.


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Tony B's Machine
Create and record your own techno-music tracks on this virtual electronic organ, which includes special effects, sample lyrics, and a skin you can custom design.

20TH-CENTURY WITNESS

“No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater,” wrote John Lahr of August Wilson in The New Yorker. Wilson’s life’s work—ten plays that captured the African American experience in the 20th century—are brought together here in a boxed set with introductions by Lahr, Suzan-Lori Parks, Toni Morrison, Frank Rich, and Laurence Fishburne, among others. Two of the plays, Fences and The Piano Lesson, won the Pulitzer.

THE AUGUST WILSON CENTURY CYCLE, by August Wilson (Theatre Communications Group, 2007)

MOYLAN’S MOYLANDER DOUBLE IPA

Moylan’s Brewing Co., Novato, California

Woah. Pour this one in a glass, and get ready for a crazy ride. The hop aroma hits you like a brick of something green and sticky. Close your eyes, take another deep whiff, and hold on. A brilliant reddish-copper, Moylander has a tight, off-white layer of foam and moderate carbonation—but the first sip’s explosion of hop resins will make you forget about its appearance. You gasp. You smile. You go for another sip. The bitterness has two hands around your throat by this time, but as a certified hop-head, you’re loving every second of it. How do they pack so much hop hugeness into this beer? This is a ludicrously hoppy beer. No surprise it won a Great American Beer Festival Silver medal in 2007. If you like hops, you have to try this.