The 2010
PapaJohns.com Bowl was a postseason bowl game between the
college football teams South Carolina Gamecocks and Connecticut Huskies
on January 2, 2010, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama; it ended in
a 20–7 victory for Connecticut. Both teams had a 7–5 regular season
record. Connecticut's tumultuous season had seen a victory at Notre
Dame, and the murder of Jasper Howard, their cornerback. Connecticut
scored twice in the first quarter: on a one-handed 37-yard touchdown
reception by wide receiver Kashif Moore and then on a 33-yard field goal
after South Carolina failed to convert a fourth-down play at its 32-yard
line. Andre Dixon, Connecticut's running back, scored on a 10-yard rush
early in the fourth quarter. South Carolina scored its sole touchdown on
a two-yard run by Brian Maddox after the game had effectively been
decided. Dixon was named player of the game, and finished with 126
rushing yards and one touchdown.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_PapaJohns.com_Bowl>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began
with an engagement in which both sides would suffer their highest
casualty rates in the American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stones_River>
1965:
Central African military officers led by Jean-Bédel Bokassa
began a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Sylvestre_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1986:
Three disgruntled employees set fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel
in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing more than 90 people and injuring 140
others (rescue efforts depicted), making it the second-deadliest hotel
fire in United States history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Plaza_Hotel_arson>
1998:
The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates
of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the
euro.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechanism>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
auld lang syne:
(idiomatic) Days gone by; former times.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auld_lang_syne>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The authoritarian impulse is reasserting itself, to challenge
free people and free societies, everywhere. In our own country, from
the trivial to the truly dangerous, it is the range and regularity of
the untruths we see that should be cause for profound alarm, and spur to
action. Add to that the by-now predictable habit of calling true things
false, and false things true, and we have a recipe for disaster. As
George Orwell warned, "The further a society drifts from the truth, the
more it will hate those who speak it." … The question of why the truth
is now under such assault may well be for historians to determine. But
for those who cherish American constitutional democracy, what matters is
the effect on America and her people and her standing in an increasingly
unstable world — made all the more unstable by these very
fabrications. What matters is the daily disassembling of our democratic
institutions. We are a mature democracy — it is well past time that
we stop excusing or ignoring — or worse, endorsing — these attacks
on the truth. For if we compromise the truth for the sake of our
politics, we are lost.
--Jeff Flake
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeff_Flake>