HAPPY MOTHERS DAY, REGAN SMITH UPSETS THE FIELD

I want to wish all the Mothers out there who come by and visit Mickey's Place a very HAPPY MOTHERS DAY, if you are here in the Heights it looks like it could be a bit of a wet day but we do need some rain.  Last night at Darlington Regan Smith picked up his 1st career Sprint Cup win edging out Carl Edwards for the win, Smith team has been qualifying very well all year and have some pretty good runs and finally all the teams hard work paid off last night.  It was a big win for the little guys in the sport since Front Row Motorsports is a 1 car team and they are based in Denver Colorado.  Also last night tempers were flaring again, last week it was Montoya & Newman and this week it was Harvick and Kyle Busch.  This is something that Nascar really needs some bad feelings towards each other, over the last few years there really hasn't been in big rivalry's or big feuds with drivers, back in the hay day of the sport you had some good guys and some bad guys.  The Nashville Predators stayed alive in the Stanley Cup Playoffs last night beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 and forcing a game 6 in Nashville, the San Jose Sharks will try to finish off the Detroit Red Wings tonight.  Yesterday was not a good day for my allergies.  MICKEY

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." Babe Ruth

Today's Birthdays: Comedian Don Rickles is 85. Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is 85. Singer Toni Tennille is 71. Actor James Mitchum is 70. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 69. Jazz musician Keith Jarrett is 66. Singer Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 60. Rock musician Chris Frantz (Talking Heads) is 60. Rockabilly singer Billy Burnette is 58. Rock musician Alex Van Halen is 58. Actor David Keith is 57. Actor Stephen Furst is 57. Actress Melissa Gilbert is 47. Rock musician Dave Rowntree (Blur) is 47. Country musician Del Gray is 43. Rock singer Darren Hayes is 39. Singer Enrique Iglesias is 36. Singer Ana Maria Lombo (Eden's Crush) is 33. Actress Julia Whelan (WAY'-lan) is 27.