Sports Fact of the Day 2/18/2011

2/18/2008:
Twenty-year-old Shahar Peer becomes the first Israeli to play tennis in a Persian Gulf state when she defeats Slovenia's Andreja Klepac, 6-3, 6-4, in the first round of the Qatar Total Open in Doha. In February 2009, Peer will be prevented from playing in the Dubai Tennis Championships after being denied a visa by the Arab United Emirates, a country that does not have diplomatic relations with Israel. Tournament director Slah Tahlak will claim that Peer was refused on the grounds that her appearance might incite anger in the UAE.

Birthdays:
George Gipp b. 1895
Joe Gordon b. 1915
Manny Mota b. 1938
Maurice Lucas b. 1952
Andy Moog b. 1960

Packers Fact:
The Packers finished eighth in the NFL in total offense (351.1 yards per game), eighth in passing offense (238.3 yards per game), and fifth in scoring offense (26.2 points per game) in 2008.

ON SELF-SERVICE GAS PUMP INSTRUCTIONS,
NON-INSTRUCTIVE

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• To insert the notes aligned to the right in any verse

• To wait in the accreditation in the display

• To select the wanted bomb

• out to the spy of the select bomb, to take the supplier

English instructions on a self-serve gas pump, Italy

“Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit.”

—DIANNE FEINSTEIN, U.S. senator

EXOTIC TRAVELS

In this witty moral comedy, Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love, probes the relationship between sex and the heart: A struggling writer, Avery Jankowsky, finds that his girlfriend has been unfaithful. Hoping to give Avery’s spirits a lift, his uncle Ezra offers to send him on a sex tour, which includes stops in Iceland, Norway, and Latvia. He accepts the offer and plans to write a bestselling exposé of the trip. Spencer has given us another funny and perceptive novel very much of our times.

WILLING, by Scott Spencer (Ecco, 2008)