By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer
Thursday, April 28, 2011
He said it
"It's like you're getting hit on the head with a hammer, and you do everything you can to make it better — you take aspirin and put a bandage on it, but eventually you got to take your head out from beneath the hammer. Life is too short and precious."
Tom Durkin, race announcer, in the New York Times, announcing he will no longer call the Kentucky Derby because it's too high-pressured
Anniversary of the day
It was 50 years ago today — April 29, 1961 — that ABC debuted the classic show Wide World of Sports. The first show featured the Drake Relays from Drake University and the Penn Relays from Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The show, hosted mostly by the late Jim McKay, ran for 37 years until its cancellation in 1998.
