Sports Fact of the Day 1/2/2011

Tennessee football coach Bowden Wyatt, on the two requirements for success as a defensive player: "Taking the shortest distance to the ball and arriving in a bad humor."

Birthdays:
Gino Marchetti b. 1927
Calvin Hill b. 1947
David Cone b. 1963
Edgar Martinez b. 1963
Pernell Whitaker b. 1964

ON DEMOCRATS, DAMP

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I can’t tell you how grateful I am—I am filled with humidity.

Texas House of Representatives speaker Gib Lewis

“It’s always hard to see hope with a hangover.”

—P. J. O’ROURKE, American humorist and writer