110px|Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, site of the 2006 Gator Bowl
The 2006 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game between the
Louisville Cardinals and the Virginia Tech Hokies in Jacksonville,
Florida on January 2, 2006. Virginia Tech was selected as a participant
in the 2006 Gator Bowl following a 10–2 regular season; a loss to
Florida State in the inaugural ACC Championship Game gave Tech a
position in the Gator Bowl instead of the more prestigious Orange Bowl
game. Facing the 12th-ranked Hokies were the 15th-ranked Cardinals, who
finished 9–2 during the regular season of their first year in the Big
East Conference. Louisville led for much of the game, beginning with an
11-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter by backup quarterback
Hunter Cantwell. In the second half, however, Virginia Tech's offense
began to have success. Tech earned the only points of the third
quarter—a 28-yard field goal from kicker Brandon Pace—to narrow
Louisville's lead to 17–13. In the fourth quarter, the game fully
turned in the Hokies' favor. Though Louisville scored a touchdown early
in the quarter, Virginia Tech scored 22 unanswered points in the final
13 minutes of the game to take a 35–24 lead and earn the win. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
366:
The Alamanni, an alliance of west Germanic tribes, crossed the frozen
Rhine in large numbers to invade the Roman Empire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamanni>
1920:
Under the leadership of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ,
Department of Justice agents launched a series of raids against radical
leftists and anarchists across 30 cities in 23 states.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids>
1941:
Second World War: The Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, was
severely damaged by German bombing during the Cardiff Blitz.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandaff_Cathedral>
1971:
At Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland, 66 people were killed in a stampede
during an Old Firm football match.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrox_disaster>
2004:
The Stardust space probe flew by the comet Wild 2 and collected
particle samples from its coma, which were later returned to Earth.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/81P/Wild>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
neonate (n):
A newborn infant; recently born baby
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neonate>
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and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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