HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL

Today is fellow blogger Al's 45th birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL. Today to celebrate his birthday Al is going to the Virginia Motor Speedway and you guessed it take some pictures. Allot of the ballplayers wanted to know where AL was at Thursday. I have posted a few photos of Al for his birthday. The Virginia Cavalier baseball team picked up another ACC win yesterday beating the Miami Hurricanes 4-1, they will play game 2 of the later today. The Richmond Renegades losing streak now stands at 7, the Gades lost for the 2nd consecutive night in OT, last night it was Columbus picking up a 3-2 win. The Gades will be home next Saturday night in the playoffs. Jeff Gordon captured the pole for this weekends stop on the Nascar Nextel Cup Series, this is the 1st race with the COT and I haven't got used to the way they look, they do look very strange. In the NCAA basketball tournament yesterday Oregon, UNC, Georgetown, and Florda all advanced to Sunday. Today Memphis will play Ohio St and UCLA will meet Kansas with the winners advancing to the Final Four. Again HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL, MICKEY

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Ambrose Bierce

1882 - Professor Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ -- in Berlin, Germany.
1955 - The Tennessee Williams play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opened on Broadway. The hit ran for 694 shows and won the Critics’ Circle Award as the Best American Play.
1958 - Elvis Presley reported to local draft board 86 in Memphis, TN. He became US 53310761. Oddly, since Elvis was now ‘government property’ serving his time in the Army, Uncle Sam stood to lose an estimated $500,000 in lost taxes each year that Private Presley was in the Army.
1989 - At four minutes past midnight, the Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot supertanker loaded with 1,264,155 barrels of North Slope crude oil, ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. 11.2 million gallons of oil spilled into the sea, mucking up nearly five hundred miles of shoreline.

Actor R. Lee Ermey is 63
Comedian Louie Anderson is 54
Actress Donna Pescow is 53
Actor Robert Carradine is 53
Actress Kelly LeBrock is 47
TV personality Star Jones Reynolds is 45
CHHS Team Photographer Al Goulder is 45
Actress Annabella Sciorra is 43
Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 37
Actress Alyson Hannigan ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") is 33
Football player Peyton Manning is 31
Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes is 17

Thought for Today: "Self-esteem equals Success over Pretensions." — William James