Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 9/11/2011

9/11/1987:
Temperamental CBS anchor Dan Rather walks off the Evening Ne3ws set because the broadcast of the U.S. Open tennis semifinal between Steffi Graf and Lori McNeil has delayed his newscast. The network goes black for six minutes.

Birthdays:
Paul "Bear" Bryant b. 1913
Tom Landry b. 1924
Franz Beckenhauer b. 1945
Marty Liquori b. 1949
Ellis Burke b. 1964

ON HIKING TRAIL SIGNS,
WORRISOME

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BEWARE OF THE
MISSING FOOT

sign by a hiking trail in China

“Put on a happy face!”

—ALBERT F. PETERSON (DICK VAN DYKE) in Bye Bye Birdie; screenplay by Irving Brecher