Wilkes-Barre scored the last five and sent it back to Chicago with a 5-1 win. John Curry stops 25 of 26 in the last 40 minutes. It’s still a long way back. But they’re halfway there. Game 6 is Tuesday.
Missed Game 5 entirely, thanks in part to three overtimes (and slow wireless at the office, but…). Tip o’cap to the winners in lacrosse: Darien, Fairfield Prep (3OT), and New Fairfield. And to the girls winners, Darien and Danbury… and to the various baseball and softball champs. We’ll see what we can see about track on Monday.
As Paul noted in the comments, Billy Thompson is off to Holland. Did you know Babelfish does Dutch? ObFun: “The rechtswinger gave primacy to its social and social career.” And Aaron Power is off to Germany, to Heilbronner. An ObFwB two-fer: “In the coming play time the 1.83 m large and 86 kg are to defend heavy Canadians for the falcons.” Beautiful. (“Cleveland Barons” also becomes “smart country of baron.”) Anyway, among the Falken already there: J.F. Caudron.
My ancient cell phone has finally stopped reading “Cingular” and now says “AT&T.” My mom’s later model did that a long time ago. It looks very weird now every time I check. I keep looking closer to see if there’s some kind of strange message on the screen. (There is, duh — “AT&T.”) This one is about four years old now, has no camera, can’t really text-message anyone, doesn’t show pictures and runs its battery down very quickly. But it still calls people, which is all I really care about.
(Two telephone-related links: presented without comment.)
Found my original copy of “Last Exit to Springfield,” taped off Channel 5 on March 11, 1993. It was a more emotional moment than you probably imagine. My brother was out that night. When he came home, I informed him that I had watched the greatest half-hour of television I had ever seen. It still is.
And finally, on Belmont day, a day he usually hosted for us, how sad to say goodbye to Jim McKay.