Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 1/15/2012

1/15/1981:
Former heavyweight boxing champion Leon Spinks is robbed in Detroit. Spinks tells authorities that he was struck on the head as he was leaving a bar, woke up in a motel five miles away, and discovered that his assailants had taken $45,000 worth of clothes, jewelry, and other items, including the gold denture plate he was wearing. He had been the heavyweight champ for seven months in 1978.

Birthdays:
Bobby Grich b. 1949
Ernie DiGregorio b. 1951
Delino DeShields b. 1969
Mary Pierce b. 1975
Drew Brees b. 1979