Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 8/10-11/2011

8/10/2009:
After announcing her plans to retire at the end of the season, Lisa Leslie becomes the first player in the WNBA to score 6,000 career points as the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Indiana Fever, 75-63, at Staples Center. Leslie has played for the Sparks since the league's founding in 1997. Among her accomplishments are two WNBA titles, two finals MVP awards, three All-Star Game MVP awards, seven first team WNBA selections, two Defensive Player of the Year honors and first to dunk the ball in a WNBA game. She also won gold medals in four different Olympiads.

Birthdays:
Red Holzman b. 1920
Rocky Colavito b. 1933
John Starks b. 1965
Riddick Bowe b. 1967
Samari Rolle b. 1976

Packers Fact:
By ranking eighth in the NFL in total offense in 2008, the Packers ranked among the league's top 10 for the 12th time in the last 15 seasons.

8/11:
Alabaman Hugo Black, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court until the age of 85: "When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and couldn't wait until I reached 50 to start again."

Birthdays:
Bill Monbouquette b. 1936
Vada Pinson b. 1938
Otis Taylor b. 1942
Craid Ehlo b. 1961
Edgardo Alfonso b. 1973

Packers Fact:
Second-year fullback Korey Hall scored his first career touchdown when he caught a 1-yard pass against Minnesota on Kickoff Weekend in 2008.

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, U.S. president

“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”

—LAUREN BACALL, American actress

ON ANNEXING THE FOOTBALL FIELD
WAS THE FINAL STRAW

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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
STUDENTS PROTEST
INVASION BY ISRAEL

headline in the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal

ON BUT SOMEBODY NEEDS TO
START ENGLISH LESSONS

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FRENCH LESSONS:

DEBUTANT, CONFIRMED, AND EVEN SPECIALIST.

NOBODY ENDS TO LEARN.

sign in Toronto, Canada

A GREAT ESCAPE

There are many who would never even consider the possibility of living abroad and moving away from friends and family, especially in retirement. This book, of course, is not for them. But for those who have been tempted, or who have even started looking into it, “Retirement Without Borders is absolutely positively the best book that I have read on why, where, and how to retire abroad,” says Ernie J. Zelinsky, the author of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. Written and researched by two happy, successful expats, and focused on ten main spots and more briefly on many others. For the budget conscious as well as the well-off.

RETIREMENT WITHOUT BORDERS: HOW TO RETIRE ABROAD—IN MEXICO, FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN, COSTA RICA, PANAMA, AND OTHER SUNNY, FOREIGN PLACES (AND THE SECRET TO MAKING IT HAPPEN WITHOUT STRESS), by Barry Golson, Thia Golson, and the Expert Expats (Scribner, 2008)

TRUTH IN FICTION

In 1887 Henry Ward Beecher lies on his deathbed, occasioning his illustrious family’s backward glance into the sex scandal in which Henry was involved as a younger man and the firestorm of courtroom drama and journalistic attention that ensued. Henry’s numerous family members, including writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the many others who were embroiled in the high-profile shenanigans come alive in this seamless, hugely diverting historical novel. “A compelling page-turner with unmistakable echoes in our own times,” says Thomas Dyja, author of Play for a Kingdom.

HARRIET AND ISABELLA, by Patricia O’Brien (Touchstone, 2008)