Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 1/1/2011

1/1/1942:
New Year's Day

Because of security concerns after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl is moved all the way across the country from Pasadena, California, to Duke Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. Oregon State defeats Duke, 20-16, in today's game. The annual New Year's Day event will return to Pasadena next January, when Georgia trounces UCLA, 9-0.

Birthdays:
Hank Greenberg b. 1911
Doak Walker b. 1927
Marlin McKeever b. 1940
Derrick Thomas b. 1967
Glen Davis b. 1986

Packers Fact:
Paul Hornung (1957-1962, 1964-66) won college football's Heisman Trophy in 1956 for Notre Dame at the quarterback position.

ON GOT A POINT THERE

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It’s very hard to write the future history of America before the current history hasn’t been fully written.

President George W. Bush, in an interview with Fox News

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

—ALAN KAY, computer scientist

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

Get a smart start on the new year by getting a grip with Frances Moore Lappé, the upbeat original guru of living green, clean, and not mean. In Getting a Grip, the prolific author, philosopher, and activist goes way beyond her diet for a small planet and takes in the big picture of how to live meaningfully and optimistically with the enormous opportunities and responsibilities of the 21st century.

GETTING A GRIP: CLARITY, CREATIVITY, AND COURAGE IN A WORLD GONE MAD, by Frances Moore Lappé (Small Planet Press, 2007)