Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 1/16/2011

1/16/2002:
Dallas mavericks owner Mark Cuban works for a day at a Dairy Queen. Cuban had unleashed one of his frequent tirades about NBA officiating and the league's manager of officials, Ed. T. Rush, who he insisted "wouldn't be able to manage a Dairy Queen." Offended by the remark, Dairy Queen invited Cuban to fill in for a day at a franchise in Coppell, Texas.

Birthdays:
Dizzy Dean b. 1911
A.J. Foyt b. 1935
Jack McDowell b. 1966
Roy Jones, Jr. b. 1969
Albert Pujols b. 1980

ON MADONNA, ALWAYS INSPIRING

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I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon, but I want to stay alive.

singer Madonna, on how she wants her art and philanthropy to inspire people

“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.”

—MARK TWAIN, American writer and humorist