Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/5/2012

3/5/1992:
The Quebec Nordiques break a streak of 38 consecutive road games without a win, trouncing the Whalers at the Hartford Civic Center. The last Quebec win on the road was on March 10, 1991, also in hartford. The Nordiques were 0-28-10 during the streak. Mats Sundlin leads the way in the 10-4 victory with five goals and two assists. He scores at 11:06 of the first period; 4:25, 7:11, and 14:02 of the second; and 15:10 of the third. A native of Sweden, Sundlin was the first European selected as the number one overall pick in the NHL draft in 1989 when he was chosen by the Nordiques. Sundlin scored 564 goals in his NHL career, which lasted from 1990 through 2009.

Birthdays:
Elmer Valo b. 1921
Scott Skiles b. 1964
Michael Irvin b. 1966
Paul Konerko b. 1976
Wally Szczerbiak b. 1977

WHODUNIT

“If Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka,” intoned The New Yorker, the result would be Jedediah Barry’s Manual of Detection. Fans of Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem will be delighted. When a great detective is murdered, a lowly clerk at his agency must solve the crime, relying on advice from a how-to volume called—you guessed it—The Manual of Detection. Noir, surreal, and sublimely funny, this is not your mother’s murder mystery.

THE MANUAL OF DETECTION, by Jedediah Barry (Penguin, 2010)