The Nightly Quill

The Trinity Tigers executed a 15-lateral, “Mississippi Miracle” on the last play, with 2 seconds remaining, Saturday Oct. 27, 2007 to score the winning touchdown, stunning the Millsaps Majors 28-24 on the road to stay alive in the chase for the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title.

The play that covered 60 yards was recorded in official statistics as a 44-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Blake Barmore to wide receiver Riley Curry.

“It was the most remarkable play I’ve ever seen in college football,” Trinity coach Steve Mohr said in a telephone interview.

“As soon as I saw (Curry) in the end zone, I fell down and started crying,” Barmore said. “I’m kind of a big baby.”

Mohr said fireworks went off prematurely to celebrate the Millsaps victory.

“Our tackle, Wade Lytal, got a block near the goal line and Riley dove into the end zone,” said Mohr, who estimated that there were 14 laterals and that eight Trinity players touched the ball. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Trinity sophomore Jonathan Wiener, who made the Internet radio call, said he told his audience before the last play that it would take something “crazy” to happen on the last play for the Tigers to win.

“It took a miracle, and that’s about what it was,” Wiener said. “We figured something crazy had to happen. It did.”

On Oct. 12, in the basement of a Unitarian church on the town green in Lexington, Mass., a carpenter named Michael Cresta scored 830 points in a game of Scrabble. His opponent, Wayne Yorra, who works at a supermarket deli counter, totaled 490 points. The two men set three records for sanctioned Scrabble in North America: the most points in a game by one player (830), the most total points in a game (1,320), and the most points on a single turn (365, for Cresta’s play of QUIXOTRY).

In the community of competitive Scrabble, the game has been heralded as the anagrammatic equivalent of Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game in 1962 or Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series: a remarkable, wildly aberrational event with potential staying power. Cresta’s 830 shattered a 13-year-old record, 770 points, which had been threatened only infrequently. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t play pool with these guys.

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Piercing the egg is from 70 meters
Piercing the apple is from 70 meters
Piercing the soybean is from 30 meters
Piercing the arrow is from 30 meters

The world’s oldest ice hockey stick, a hickory shaft carved in the 1850s, sold for $1.9 million dollars (2.2 million Canadian) here and will be displayed at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

An anonymous Canadian man made the winning bid in an internet auction purchase, according to 45-year-old seller Gord Sharpe, an Ontario man who has owned the family heirloom since he was nine. David Romeo, chief executive of selling agency Auction Wire, said the stick is among the most important items in hockey. “The buyer was a private individual, a Canadian, who wants to remain anonymous. He told us that he plans to have the stick over at Hockey Hall of Fame and to keep it there until he decides what he’s going to do,” Romeo said. “For now he wants to keep it in Canada.” Link - ca.news.yahoo.com

NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Reuters Life!) - An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone’s wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.

The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also qualified for the national championship, arousing the suspicion of officials and bemusing rivals.

Sharma was finally caught at a recent tournament when officials discovered that he had stitched a Bluetooth device in a cloth cap which he always pulled over his ears.

He communicated to his accomplices outside the hall, who then used a computer to relay moves to him, Indian chess federation secretary D.V. Sundar said on Wednesday.

“We have banned him for 10 years,” he told Reuters. “We wanted to send a clear message to such people.”

Chess officials were also probing whether another player had similar advantages through such illegal means, he added. The Nightly Quill will continue to follow this story.
Link - today.reuters.com

“Scorpion Style” soccer goal save.