• Astronaut Sally Ride was very competitive in tennis. While still attending a small private girls’ high school in California, she often played against the headmaster, who once got past her a particularly difficult shot, then made the mistake of showing off. Sally responded by hitting three drives in a row straight at his head. While competing at Swarthmore College, she was champion of Eastern Intercollegiate Women’s Tennis two years in a row. In fact, Ms. Ride was so good that Billie Jean King thought she could turn professional. However, Ms. Ride evaluated her tennis skills, then decided to stick to science. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space.
• Called the Last Great Race on Earth, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is a race among sled dog teams through 1,049 miles of Alaskan wilderness and villages. After Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the race in 1985, and after Susan Butcher won it in 1986, 1987, and 1988, T-shirts appeared bearing this slogan: “Alaska. Where men are men and women win the Iditarod.” (Ms. Butcher received a lot of encouragement from native Alaskan women as she attempted to win the Iditarod. As she passed their villages, the women told her, “Do this for us.”)
• In 1947, golfer Babe Didrikson competed in the British Women’s Amateur tournament, where a British woman asked her if she were worried that Americans were jinxed at the tournament—after all, such fine American players as Glenna Collett and Virginia Van Wie had played at the tournament but not won. Babe replied, “I didn’t come here to lose.” In fact, she didn’t lose. She defeated the Scottish champion, Jean Donald, thus becoming the first American woman to win the British Women’s Amateur tournament.
• At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, American gymnast Mary Lou Retton won the all-around competition with a vault that scored a perfect 10. Under the rules of the time, she did not need to attempt a second vault, but she did—and earned another perfect 10 score.
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• Oakland Athletics scout Camilo Pascual really wanted the team to draft Jose Canseco in 1982. Unfortunately, professional baseball teams, including the Athletics, regarded Mr. Canseco as not being big and muscular enough to play in the major leagues, so for round after round he was undrafted. Finally, Mr. Pascual pulled out his wallet and threw it on a table, saying that he believed so strongly in Mr. Canseco that he would pay his signing bonus himself. Then and only then did the Athletics draft Mr. Canseco and offer him a contract. Later, they were glad they did. Mr. Canseco put on weight and grew muscular, and he drove in many, many game-winning runs for his team. In addition, in 1988, Mr. Canseco became the first major-league player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in one season. After Mr. Canseco became such a big success, Mr. Pascual, whose own remarkable major-league career as a pitcher included two 20-win seasons in a row, joked that he would be remembered as “the guy who signed Jose Canseco.”
• Yankee pitcher Spurgeon “Spud” Chandler quickly learned that Yankee manager Ed Barrow was a tough negotiator when it came to player contracts. As a very young pitcher, Spud once received a contract that was for the exact same salary that he had earned the year before, although he had been promoted higher in the Yankee farm system. However, he felt that he was due for a raise, so he mailed the contract back with this letter: “I thought that the Yankees were a fair organization and would increase my pay as I moved up in baseball. But, if this is how baseball is run, maybe I should get out of it. Unless I get a raise, don’t bother to return the contract. Just write me a letter.” Quickly, the contract and a letter arrived. The contract did NOT include a raise, and Mr. Barrow’s letter said, “Unless you affix your signature to this contract, don’t bother to return it. Just keep it as a souvenir of your brief career in organized baseball.”
Tommy James and the Shondells' best-selling song was covered by many artists including Joan Jett and Prince. Over and over, what is the title of this song?
"Crimson and Clover" is a 1968 song by American rock band Tommy James and the Shondells. Written by the duo of Tommy James and drummer Peter Lucia Jr., it was intended as a change in direction of the group's sound and composition.
"Crimson and Clover" was released in late 1968 as a rough mix after a radio station leaked it. It spent 16 weeks on the U.S. charts, reaching number one in the United States (in February 1969) and other countries. The single has sold 5 million copies, making it Tommy James and the Shondells' best-selling song. It has been covered by many artists including Joan Jett and Prince.
"Crimson and Clover" entered the U.S. charts on December 14, where it stayed for 16 weeks on Billboard Hot 100 and 15 weeks on Cash Box Top 100. Following a performance of the song on The Ed Sullivan Show on January 26, it became number one on February 1, 1969, a position held for one week on Cash Box Top 100 and two weeks on both Billboard Hot 100 and Record World 100 Top Pops. Internationally, the song reached number one in Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and Switzerland. It also charted in Austria, Brazil, France, Holland, Italy, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Despite this, the song did not chart in the United Kingdom.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Crimson and Clover.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
"Crimson And Clover"
mj wrote:
It was kinda slow for the era
Crimson and Clover.
Alan J answered:
Crimson and Clover.
Cal in Vermont replied:
"Crimson And Clover".
Stephen F responded:
Crimson and Clover
Randall wrote:
Crimson and Clover
Deborah, the Master Gardener said:
I think it’s “Mony, Tony” (which Billy Idol also covered, in the 90s), or “I Think We’re Alone Now,” which Debbie Gibson covered (also in the 90s). Or maybe it’s “Crimson & Clover.” So that’s my multiple-choice answer; talk about hedging my bets.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Crimson and Clover
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Crimson and Clover.
Rosemary in Columbus answered:
Crimson and Clover
Joe replied:
Over and over, "Crimson and Clover."
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New Rule: Leave Matt Damon Alone | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Bill gives some advice to Matt Damon, who is often caught in cancel culture quicksand: stop hunting for good will, you’re not gonna find much in this country.
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Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Amanda Peet and Roger Bennett.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 6/28/21) is Ed Sheeran.
NBC starts the ngiht with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Capital One College Bowl'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Michael Shannon, Paris Hilton, and Courtney Barnett.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jennifer Hudson, Lior Raz, and Jeff Bowders.
RERUNLilly Singh.
ABC fills the night with 3 hours of RERUN'Home Ec'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Julie Bowen, are Minnie Driver, Jacob Elordi, and Ashe.
The CW offers a FRESH'DC's Stargirl', followed by a FRESH'Superman & Lois'.
Faux has a FRESH'Lego Masters', followed by a FRESH'Fantasy Island'.
MY recycles an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by 'Schitt's Creek', then an old 'King Of Queens', followed by another old 'King Of Queens'.
A&E has 'Invisible Monsters: Serial Killers In America', followed by a FRESH'Invisible Monsters: Serial Killers In America'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Rock', followed by the movie 'Enemy Of The State'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] GROWN UPS
[10:15PM] GROWN UPS 2
[12:30AM] GROWN UPS
[2:45AM] GROWN UPS 2
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
FX has the movie 'Deepwater Horizon', followed by the movie 'The Martian'.
History has 'America's Book Of Secrets', 'History's Greatest Mysteries', then a FRESH'Man Vs. History'.
IFC -
[6:00am] 3rd Rock From The Sun
[6:30am] 3rd Rock From The Sun
[7:00am - 9:00am] Three's Company
[9:30am] The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
[12:00pm] Street Kings
[2:30pm] 2 Guns
[5:00pm] S.W.A.T.
[7:30pm] 2 Guns
[10:00pm] S.W.A.T.
[12:30am]
[3:00am - 5:30am] 3rd Rock From The Sun (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 1:00pm] law & order: criminal intent
[2:00pm - 9:00pm] ncis
[10:00pm] columbo
[12:15am] columbo
[2:30am - 5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Magnificent Seven', followed by the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', then the movie 'Death Wish'.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame welcomed its latest honoree to the famous walkway: singer-songwriter Don McLean. The unveiling of his star stands in connection with the 50th anniversary of his classic hit song, "American Pie.''
McLean reminisced about his early days in the industry, and thanked the producers and other musicians who helped him along the way... many of whom are also Walk of Fame honorees.
"This experience is very important to me, because of all the names that are listed here," said McLean. "I'm a big film buff and a record buff. I know some of the obscure producers and directors and I'm so honored."
The ceremony included an appearance by Grammy-winning song parodist "Weird Al'' Yankovic and a performance of "American Pie'' by the country a cappella group Home Free.
Marc Maron, Bill Maher, Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng, Colin Quinn and Nick Kroll will headline this year’s New York Comedy Festival, which returns for laughs after last year’s event was canceled due to the pandemic.
The weeklong festival this fall will also feature Michelle Buteau, Vir Das, Tim Dillon, Gary Gulman, Jon Lovett’s Lovett or Leave It, Norm Macdonald, Brian Regan, Andrew Santino and Megan Stalter.
The festival runs Nov. 8-14. Over 200 comedians, late-night hosts and podcast stars will perform in more than 100 shows at places like the Beacon Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Carolines on Broadway and the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden.
R&B legend Ray Charles, who helped redefine country music in the Civil Rights era, and Grammy-winning duo The Judds will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The Country Music Association on Monday announced the new class of Hall of Fame members, who will be formally inducted in a ceremony in 2022.
Charles, who died in 2004, showed the commercial potential of country music when he released “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” in 1962, a genre-defying personal project to the Georgia-born singer and piano player.
Charles grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opy and his record, which was considered a risk at the time, became one of the best selling country albums of the era. His version of “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” spent five weeks on top of the Billboard 100 chart and remains one of his most popular songs.
He later recorded a duets album featuring country legends like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash. Nelson in particular has lauded Charles’ impact on the genre and they had a 1985 No. 1 duet together called “Seven Spanish Angels.”?
ViacomCBS has clinched a sale of the CBS building known as Black Rock for $760 million to real estate investment and management firm Harbor Group International.
It’s the first sale of the landmark building at 51 West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan since it opened in 1964. The media giant put the building on the block in 2019 as it looked to shed noncore assets, but a sale was delayed when the pandemic hit last March.
As the former owner-occupier, ViacomCBS will lease back its space in the Eero Saarinen-designed modernist granite office tower on a short-term basis.
The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year. CBS had early on reportedly been seeking north of $1 billion.
Both CNN and its chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward are calling out Sen. Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Perfidious) for spreading what they say is a misleading and inaccurate Twitter meme showing Ward in what the conservative senator calls a burka.
Cruz today retweeted a post from right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec depicting Ward with and without a head-covering. Cruz added the comment, “Is there an enemy of America for whom @CNN WON’T cheerlead? (In mandatory burkas, no less.)”
Ward responded by noting, “This meme is inaccurate. The top photo is inside a private compound. The bottom is on the streets of Taliban held Kabul. I always wore a head scarf on the street in Kabul previously, though not w/ hair fully covered and abbaya. So there is a difference but not quite this stark.”
CNN’s communications team wasn’t so tactful. Responding to Cruz, the team wrote, “Rather than running off to Cancun in tough times, @clarissaward is risking her life to tell the world what’s happening. That’s called bravery. Instead of RTing a conspiracy theorist’s misleading soundbite, perhaps your time would be better spent helping Americans in harm’s way.”
Rudy Giuliani’s “false and misleading” claims about the 2020 election have already led to the suspension of his licenses to practice law in New York and Washington D.C., but an editorial board argued in a column Sunday that the blowback against Donald Trump’s lawyer shouldn’t stop there.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch suggested in an Aug. 15 op-ed that Giuliani should be disbarred in every state for spreading “fake news” and lying about the 2016 and 2020 elections. The editorial board pointed out that Giuliani recently admitted to federal agents that it was OK to “throw a fake” on television during the campaign and spread lies about political opponents like Hillary Clinton.
“Full disbarment remains a hopeful possibility. The legal profession and the nation has had enough of this man’s fake news,” the Post-Dispatch editorial board wrote.
“After his election antics last year, it should be beyond serious debate that Rudy Giuliani is a liar,” the Post-Dispatch editorial board wrote. “Even so, it’s startling to read how casually former President Donald Trump’s lawyer admitted to federal agents that he lied to the public during Trump’s earlier election campaign of 2016.”
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch also argues that in addition to his lies about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, Giuliani should face more consequences for his role “helping motivate” the attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier this year.
In a stunning demonstration of one of Einstein's most famous equations, physicists are claiming to have created matter from pure light for the very first time.
Albert Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation says that if you smash two sufficiently energetic photons, or light particles, into each other, you should be able to create matter in the form of an electron and its antimatter opposite, a positron.
But this process, first described by American physicists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler in 1934, has long been one of the most difficult to observe in physics — mainly because the colliding photons would need to be highly energetic gamma rays, and scientists are not yet able to make gamma ray lasers. Alternative experiments have shown matter being produced from multiple photons, but never in the one to one way needed to most conclusively prove the effect.
But researchers from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York now believe they’ve found a workaround. Using the laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), they have been able to produce measurements that closely match predictions for the strange transforming act.
Instead of accelerating the photons directly, the researchers sped up two ions — atomic nuclei stripped of their electrons and therefore positively charged — in a big loop, before sending them past each other in a near collision. As the ions are charged particles moving very close to the speed of light, they also carry an electromagnetic field with them, inside of which are a bunch of not-quite-real 'virtual' photons "traveling with [the ion] like a cloud," Xu explained.
When a 83-year-old woman fell down a ravine in Cornwall, England, it was her cat who helped rescuers find her.
The woman had been missing for over an hour, and concerned neighbors called emergency services, BBC News reports. Police went searching for her, but it was a member of the public who heard a meowing cat and located her.
A passerby heard the cat, Piran, meowing loudly, which alerted them to the woman. Rescuers then saw the woman had fallen 70 feet into a stream, "with incredibly difficult access and uneven terrain," according to BCC News.
Rescuers lifted the woman up the ravine on a stretcher and flew her to a hospital in an air ambulance. She is in stable condition.
An eyewitness said the key to finding the woman was Piran's "quite persistent" meowing at the top of the ravine. "It's a massive 'well done' to all the emergency services who worked together and to Piran," the unnamed witness said. "The outcome could have been a lot worse."
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