The 2005 Sugar Bowl was a American college football bowl game between
the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Auburn Tigers at the Louisiana
Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 3, 2005. Virginia Tech
represented the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) after winning the ACC
football championship. Auburn represented the Southeastern Conference
(SEC), finishing the regular season undefeated. Pre-game media coverage
of the game focused on Auburn being left out of the Bowl Championship
Series national championship game because of its lower ranking in the
BCS poll, a point of controversy for Auburn fans and others. For Auburn,
running backs Carnell Williams (pictured) and Ronnie Brown were
considered among the best at their position; for Tech, senior
quarterback Bryan Randall had had a record-breaking season. Both teams
also had high-ranked defenses and in a defensive struggle, Auburn earned
a 16–13 victory despite a late-game rally by Virginia Tech. In
recognition of his game-winning performance, Auburn quarterback Jason
Campbell was named the game's most valuable player. Several players from
each team were selected in the 2005 NFL Draft and went on to careers in
the National Football League.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sugar_Bowl>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1440:
French knight Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial
killers, was taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him
by the Bishop of Nantes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais>
1831:
The John Bull (pictured), the oldest operable steam locomotive
in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and
Amboy Railroad.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull_(locomotive)>
1916:
Tanks, the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the
First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of the Somme in
Somme, Picardy, France, leading to strategic Allied victory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme>
1944:
American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied
island of Morotai, starting the Battle of Morotai.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Morotai>
1963:
A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the
16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist church in
Birmingham, Alabama, US, killing four children and injuring at least 22
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rally cap:
(US, baseball) A baseball cap worn inside-out and backwards, or in
another unconventional manner, by players or fans, as a talisman in
order to will a team into a come-from-behind rally late in the game.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rally_cap>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good
tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs, equally to the honest
man and to the gentleman: to the first, as doing to others as we would
ourselves be done by; to the last, as indispensable to the liberality of
the character. By candor we are not to understand trifling and uncalled
for expositions of truth; but a sentiment that proves a conviction of
the necessity of speaking truth, when speaking at all; a contempt for
all designing evasions of our real opinions; and a deep conviction that
he who deceives by necessary implication, deceives willfully. In all the
general concerns, the publick has a right to be treated with candor.
Without this manly and truly republican quality, republican because no
power exists in the country to intimidate any from its exhibition, the
institutions are converted into a stupendous fraud.
--James Fenimore Cooper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper>