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Today – FYI
JULY 8, 2014 – NATIONAL CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS DAY
Birthdays:
Kevin Bacon 56, Toby Keith 53, Anjelica Huston 63, Steve Lawrence 79, Wolfgang Puck 65
Advise (Old Farmer Almanac):
Rambler roses will bloom all summer if the old flower clusters are snipped regularly.
1997 – Marty Stuart marries Connie Smith on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Afterward, they drive out into the wilderness and end up dancing on a cliff to Buck Owens’ “Your Tender Loving Care”
1992 – Garth Brooks and his wife, Sandy Brooks, have their first child, daughter Taylor Mayne Pearl Brooks, in Nashville
1990 – The final episode of “Mr. Belvedere” aired on ABC.
1982 – LAST TELECAST OF ‘POLICE SQUAD!’
1970 – “The Everly Brothers Show” was launched on ABC-TV as a summer series.
1953 – Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.
Tigers beat Presidio 4- 2
Sports Brief w/ Mark Allen
(“Mark Allen” Meurer Sports weekday mornings KSSL 107.3 & 94.1)
* Tech Football’s Davis Webb is on the watch list for the Maxwell Award.
* Tech Football’s Kenny Williams is on the watch list for the Paul Hornung Award,
* Former Texas Tech softball Adriana Perez has been named to theWorld Cup of Softball Mexican National Team roster.
* The Houston Astros beat the Texas Rangers 12-7 last night. Game 2 tonight.
* The Texas Rangers have sent struggling rookie outfielder Michael Choice to Triple-A Round Rock.
* Elliot Richoux (ree-SHOO’),former Tech baseball player drowned over the weekend at Lake Conroe.