Times staff, wires
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Fake headline of the day
Kids In 'Scared-Straight' Program Visit Horrifying Cleveland Cavaliers Practice
The Onion
Anniversary of the day
Sports fans know Dick Button more for being figure skating's most famous announcer. But because of his outstanding and long broadcasting career, we forget just how good of an actual figure skater he was. It was on this day 59 years ago — Feb. 21, 1952 — that Button became the first person to land a triple jump in a competition. Button, 81, won Olympic gold medals in men's singles in 1948 and 1952.
He wrote it
It's too soon to definitively label Carl Crawford, the new franchise left fielder, but (Saturday) he was this: refreshingly human. … Maybe Boston will eventually squeeze the pleasantness out of Crawford, but as far as first impressions go, he seemed refreshingly comfortable in his own skin.
John Tomase, Boston Herald