The TEN
(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in the TEN)
1.) “The Mid Valley Sports Show” is LIVE tonight (7:10 P.M.) at www.midvalleysports.com (Click on UStream button)
2.) Los Angeles Clippers win at Oklahoma City, 122-105, in the first game on their second round match. Clipper point guard Chris Paul scores 32 points and hits eight 3’s to lead the way.
3.) Former Temple City National Little League Prez Kristen Dearth turns young today.
4.) “The ‘humanists’ will never relent on Snyder until he gives in or is destroyed. I would drop ‘Redskins’ and not replace it. Just ‘Washington.’”—Dennis Miller
5.) “The Sterling Gate drama came just in time for the NBA. Pro round ball was getting almost irrelevant. With the Lakers out and the Oklahoma City, Memphis and I think City of Industry has a team in the play-offs who cared. With the Sterling stuff and his girlfriend spinning around in shorts and a Darth Vader visor, well the NBA has got something. If people get bored with some no name from no where slam dunking the color guy can bring up Sterling and the circus around it. If not for this the NBA even with all it’s game 7′s is still tanking. Long live football.”—MVS commentor “Bobby Knight”
6.) “Tommy John Surgery” has been performed on 31 professional baseball players in the calendar year (January-start of May) of 2014. In 2004 (Jan thru Dec) there were 39 total.
7.) On this day in 1954, at the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England, medical student Roger Bannister becomes the first person in recorded history to run the mile in under four minutes (3:59.04).
8.) On this date in 1937 Dodgers and Giants fans attending afternoon ball games at both the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field are thrilled to have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Hindenberg when it appears over New York, nearing the end of its maiden voyage of the season from Germany. A few hours later, the majestic German zeppelin will explode on a landing strip in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of its passengers.
9.) The L.A. Kings have won six in a row.
10.) ‘It’s not really like it’s an important streak; no one really cares about it anyway.”—Dodger pitcher Zack Greinke on the rain limiting him to three innings and ending a streak of 18 consecutive regular-season starts of at least five innings while allowing two runs or fewer. It was the longest such run in the majors since 1914.
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