UVA STUNS CLEMSON

The Virginia Cavaliers scored the final 15 points of the game in upsetting the Clemson Tigers 64-63 at Clemson picking up there 2nd consecutive road victory. The Cavs are now 5-2 in the ACC and 13-6 overall, next up the Cavs is a game with Duke on Thursday night at the JPJ Arena. I am a bit under the weather, I have caught a cold and I have a bit of a sore throat and I can't talk to much with out my voice getting scratchy. I had to switch Mickey's Place over to the Google server yesterday so will have to do so also if you want to be able to post any comments, just follow the instructions it's not to hard, if anybody has any trouble you can call me. Also believe it or not baseball practice starts three weeks from today. MICKEY

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley

1845 - The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, was published for the first time in the New York Evening Mirror. Poe took the pen name, Quarles, in signing the poem.
1861 - Kansas, the Sunflower State, entered the United States of America this day. The capital of the 34th state is Topeka.
1924 - Carl R. Taylor of Cleveland, OH patented the ice cream cone rolling machine.
1936 - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were the first players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1949 - The ship, The Newport News, was commissioned as the first air-conditioned naval ship -- in Virginia.
1968 - Coach Adolph Rupp of the Kentucky Wildcats notched win #772 and became the winningest coach in college basketball history, as Kentucky beat Mississippi on this night.

Actor John Forsythe is 89
Actress Katharine Ross is 67
Actor Tom Selleck is 62
Actress Ann Jillian is 57
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 53
Actress Diane Delano is 50
Actress Judy Norton Taylor ("The Waltons") is 49
Hockey player Dominik Hasek is 42
Actor-director Edward Burns is 39
Actress Heather Graham is 37
Actress Sara Gilbert is 32