Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/6/2011

3/6/1920:
The St. Patricks' Mickey Roach, a native of Boston, becomes the first American to score five goals in an NHL game. He accomplishes this feat during an 11-2 victory over the Quebec Bulldogs in Toronto. The next American to record a five-goal game is the New York Rangers' Mark Pavelich during an 11-3 win over the Hartford Whalers on February 23, 1983.

Birthdays:
Lefty Grove b. 1900
Willie Stargell b. 1940
Dick Fosbury b. 1947
Sleepy Floyd b. 1960
Shaquille O'Neal b. 1972

“The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are rather the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ‘easy life of the gods’ would be a lifeless life.”

—HANNAH ARENDT, German-American political philosopher

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My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or aunt.

North Carolina State basketball player Chuck Nevitt, explaining why he appeared nervous at practice