Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/12/2011

3/12/2009:
Syracuse outlasts Connecticut, 127-117, in a six-overtime duel in the quarterfinals of the Big East men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden. The Orange never hold a lead in the game until the sixth overtime. Lasting 3 hours and 46 minutes, it's the longest game in NCAA history since the shot clock was introduced in men's college basketball in 1985.

Birthdays:
Bronco Horvath b. 1930
Johnny Rutherford b. 1936
Dale Murphy b. 1956
Darryl Strawberry b. 1962
Steve Finley b. 1965

Packers Fact:
Guard Jerry Kramer and center Ken Bowman blocked Cowboys' defensive tackle Jethro Pugh to pave the way for Bart Starr's winning sneak in the 1967 "Ice Bowl" championship game.

“Don’t believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing—it was here first.”

—ROBERT JONES BURDETTE, American clergyman and humorist

ON BAD DOG!

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111 DOGS SEIZED
IN LIND, ONE
ARRESTED

headline in the Ritzville Adams County Journal (Ritzville, Washington)

IS IT LOVE?

Like Harold and Maude, this quirky novel features a bond between an older woman—an opinionated photographer—and a younger boy-man, here a drug-addicted family friend. The friendship is a fond narcissism, consisting of telephone conversations in which they trade neuroses and bolster each other’s oddness. When the boy begins to sink further into trouble, the woman is emotionally unprepared, yet her imperfect attempts at self-awareness are touching.

THE UNPROFESSIONALS, by Julie Hecht (Simon & Schuster, 2008)