HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, VIRGINIA NOW 2-0 IN THE ACC

Well today your blog master is 41 and I fell like am fifty, it just seems like yesterday that I turned 40 and an unknown individual put a sign in my front yard telling everybody it. It was cold 52 degrees in Colonial Heights this morning, I almost had to put my shoes when I went out to get the paper. Well I went down to Greenville, NC yesterday to see the East Carolina Pirates fall to the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles 28-21, the Pirates were trailing 14-0 at the half and rallied for a 21-14 lead before Southern Miss scored the games final 14 points to pull out the victory. Needless to say there were allot of unhappy East Carolina fans at the end of the game. The Virginia Cavaliers are now 2-0 in the ACC with there 22-20 victory over UNC yesterday & have could be 3-0 in the ACC with a win over Georgia Tech next weekend. Also yesterday Virginia Tech beat Ohio University 28-7 and Georgia stepped out of the SEC and pummeled Western Carolina 45-16. The nations longest losing streak also ended last night at 22 as the Duke Blue Devils knocked of Northwestern 20-14, how about those Blue Devils. The Green Bay Packers will be in New York today to play the Giants & the Redskins will play in Philadelphia Monday night against the Eagles. In local baseball action yesterday the Richmond Braves won the Governors' Cup by beating Durham twice yesterday, the Braves will play Sacramento, the Pacific Coast League champ, Tuesday in a one-game playoff -- dubbed the Bricktown Showdown -- in Oklahoma City. The game will be televised by ESPN2 starting at 8 p.m. Well I guess I better go for a birthday run. MICKEY

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

1908 - General Motors was founded on this day. The man responsible for the beginning of the huge auto-manufacturing company (maker of Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet) was William Crapo ‘Billy’ Durant.
1924 - Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Cardinals set a major-league baseball record by knocking in 12 runs in a single game.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns of the American League were given the OK to move to Baltimore, MD, where they became the Baltimore Orioles.
1960 - Amos Alonzo Stagg announced his retirement from football coaching. He was 98 years old at the time!
1968 - The Andy Griffith Show was seen for the final time on CBS-TV. Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith), Opie (Ron Howard), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), and the rest of the gang from Mayberry, NC, are still seen regularly on TV through syndication.
1988 - Tom Browning made it into the history books of major league baseball when he pitched a perfect game. The 12th perfect game in history was a National League match between Cincinnati and Los Angeles with a score of 1-0.
1999 - Hurricane Floyd stormed ashore, pounding North Carolina with 110 mph winds, dumping more than a foot of rain, damaging 12,000 homes and claiming more than 50 lives. Floyd also caused the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history, with 2.6 million people ordered away from the shores in the hurricane’s path.

Actress Janis Paige is 85
Actress Lauren Bacall is 83
Blues singer B.B. King is 82
Clergyman-author the Rev. Robert H. Schuller is 81
Hall of Fame NBA basketball player Elgin Baylor is 73
Actress Linda Miller is 65
Actress Susan Ruttan is 59
Actor Ed Begley Jr. is 58
Country singer David Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) is 57
Actor Christopher Rich is 54
Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Yount is 52
Actor Mickey Rourke is 51
Magician David Copperfield is 51
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Actress Jennifer Tilly is 49
Comedian Molly Shannon is 43
Your blog master Mickey Goulder is 41
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