Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/17/2012

New York Rangers coach and general manager on the condition of the playing surface at Madison Square Garden in 1972: "I've seen better ice on the roads of Saskatchewan."

Birthdays:
Sonny Werblin b. 1910
Sammy Baugh b. 1914
Hank Sauer b. 1917
Chuck Muncie b. 1953
Mia Hamm b. 1972

WHODUNIT

What would happen if three children ran into the woods and only one came out?
     Find out in this “intense” (NPR’s Morning Edition), “extraordinary” (Washington Post Book World) literary thriller with a strong psychological twist. It might remind you of Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, set in Dublin.

IN THE WOODS, by Tana French (Penguin, 2008)