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To begin the day, some housekeeping …
A happy ending to yesterday’s story about the kidnapping of Eileen Loskot: She was found dehydrated but otherwise unharmed in New Mexico, and one of the three young men involved has been arrested. Her husband is heading to Amarillo to get her. …
Lee Harvey Oswald’s up-for-grabs coffin, once buried beneath the earth at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth, will be sent to the home of whoever paid $87,469 for the rotting wood at auction yesterday. That other grim relic — a blood-stained piece of the Lincoln convertible in which Kennedy was shot — appears to have sold for far less, but still in the five figures. What appears not to have sold: this stack of 20 assassination-related photos, including the one you see above of the Texas Theatre …
Yesterday we noted Mark Cuban’s plan to throw a small fortune at the Bowl Championship Series in order to create a true college football playoff. To which BCS executive director Bill Hancock responds: Good luck with all that. He tells the Associated Press via e-mail, “Given how much support our current system has among university presidents, athletics directors, coaches and athletes, I don’t think any amount of financial inducement will make people abandon” the BCS …
And if you need Merten today — and I don’t know why you would — he’ll be at the Earle Cabell. Forthcoming from the courthouse: his liveblog from the sentencing of Brian Potashnik, speaking of follow-ups.
