Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/19/2011

3/19/1981:
The Buffalo Sabres set an NHL record with nine goals in one period during a 14-4 rout of the maple Leafs in Buffalo. The Sabres lead 1-0 at the end of the first period before their nine-goal onslaught on Toronto goaltender Michel Laroque. Three of the nine goals are scored by Gil Perrault. The Maple Leafs score three times in the second period, contributing to another record of 12 goals by two teams.

Birthdays:
Jay Berwanger b. 1914
Guy Lewis b. 1922
Richie Ashburn b. 1927
Joe Kapp b. 1939
Scott May b. 1954

Packers Fact:
Aaron Rodgers had four 300-yard passing days in his first season as the Packers' starting quarterback in 2008, with a high of 328 yards in a victory against Detroit in Week 2.

ON WORDS, NEW

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Kimi Raikkonen, if not disgruntled, is certainly looking less than gruntled.

auto racing commentator James Allen

THE DARK
IS LIGHT
ENOUGH.

—CHRISTOPHER FRY, English playwright

A GREAT ESCAPE

There’s plenty of harmony in Judith Ryan Hendricks’s fourth novel—just remember that not all harmonies are “perfect,” and not all chords are “resolved.” When Sunny Cooper’s boyfriend dies and she becomes inundated with the shady details that are raked up in the aftermath, she tries to go back first to Harmonia, the hippie New Mexico commune where she grew up, and then to Harmony, on San Miguel Island, Washington. But the past has overtones that Sunny must listen to before she can find her true voice.

THE LAWS OF HARMONY, by Judith Ryan Hendricks (Harper Paperbacks, 2009)