Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 1/17/2011

Martin Luther King Day
1/17/1995:
Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere officially announces the move of the franchise to St. Louis. In 1946, the Rams became the West Coast's first NFL team after moving to L.A. from Cleveland; in 1980, they moved 30 miles south to Orange County and played for 15 seasons at Anaheim Stadium. During the 1994 off-season, Los Angeles lost not one but two NFL teams. In July, the league approved the transfer of the Raiders back to Oakland, where the franchise played from 1960 through 1981 before returning to L.A. in 1982 and finally settling in Oakland in 1995.

Birthdays:
Jacques Plante b. 1929
Kip Keino b. 1940
Muhammad Ali b. 1942
Chili Davis b. 1960
Dwayne Wade b. 1982

Packers Fact:
Cornerback Charles Woodson posted double figures in tackles in back-to-back games for teh first time in his 12-year career in weeks 2 and 3 of 2009.

ON DRIVERS,
A LITTLE TOO DECISIVE

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The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him.

written on an actual accident report

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., clergyman and civil rights activist

LIVING HISTORY

Fifty years ago today, Dwight D. Eisenhower gave what is probably the best-known farewell address since George Washington’s. It is the one that warned against undue influence by the military-industrial complex. So we think it a fitting day to mark the service of our great wartime general and president, and to do that we recommend the outstanding book on the subject by Stephen E. Ambrose. It reacquaints us with a man of tact and forcefulness who led the country through bad times and good. A thoroughly readable and engaging book.

EISENHOWER: SOLDIER AND PRESIDENT, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster, 1991)