Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 4/1/2011

4/1/2001:
In an all-Indiana final, Notre Dame beats Purdue, 68-66, for the NCAA women's basketball championship. With 5.8 seconds remaining and the score tied at 66-66, 6'5" Ruth Riley sinks two free throws. With two seconds left, Katie Douglas of Purdue launches a 17-footer that bounces off the rim, and the Notre Dame lead stands. Riley, named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four, ends up with 28 points, 13 rebounds and 7 blocked shots. The Irish finished the regular season ranked No. 2 to fellow Big East squad Connecticut but dispatched the Lady Huskies, 90-75, in the semifinals.

Birthdays:
Bo Schembechler b. 1929
Ron Perranoski b. 1936
Rusty Staub b. 1944
Norm Van Lier b. 1947
Scott Stevens b. 1964

Packers Fact:
Guard Daryn Colledge grew up in North Pole, Alaska, a town of a little more than 1,600 residents.

ON WE’RE THINKING OF ANOTHER
WORD TO DESCRIBE YOU

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As far as politics go, you know, I’m smart. I know what’s going on in the world. I’m intellectual . . . Wait, is that how you say that word?

Contestant Shayne on The Bachelor

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.”

—“NUKE” LALOOSH (TIM ROBBINS) in Bull Durham; screenplay by Ron Shelton

A FOOL AND HIS DAUGHTERS

It’s April Fools’ Day. Put down that smart disquisition on China or Seamus Heaney’s profound lyrical poems or that critically acclaimed study of plants or Shakespeare’s tragic King Lear. This is the day to revel in folly, the day to pick up Christopher Moore’s manic, bawdy, grammar-challenging, irreverent retelling of old, crack-brained King Lear’s story from the point of view of his fool, Pocket. Delicious and literate fun, with lots of shagging thrown in.

FOOL, by Christopher Moore (HarperCollins, 2009)