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...critical moment, leading to an overtime defeat. The NFC Championship game on Sunday night - a Superdome epic between the New Orleans Saints and Favre's Minnesota Vikings that ended in a 31-28 win for the Saints, sending them forward to meet Indianapolis in the Feb. 7 Super Bowl - had many breathtaking twists and turns, yet it didn't take long for one question to dominate the post-game conversation: Did the iconic Brett Favre just finish his final game...
...discussing. But as a Wisconsin native and lifelong Green Bay Packers fan who has watched or followed every single Favre start, who has more than once become caught up in the popular hometown debates as to whether Favre is a traitor to the team he led to two Super Bowls, I was taken aback by the identity crisis I experienced on Sunday. My quarterback - the man who once had my reserved father screaming in joy during the first touchdown pass of Super Bowl XXXI - was 30 seconds away from the glory of a third title game ... as the leader...
...Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression, farmers who fled West out of the prairies found a paradise of citrus groves in Southern California: miles upon miles of navel and Valencia oranges, planted in a vast swath of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, which stretch from East Los Angeles to the Arizona and Nevada borders. Starting in the 1970s, that area, now known as the Inland Empire, became a mecca for a new kind of homesteader: young families lured by cheap land and an easy commute to L.A. By 2008, it was home to 4.1 million people...
...dead lawns and boarded-up windows. Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, calls the Inland Empire a "ground zero" for the nationwide housing bust. To first-time home buyers, though, its blighted cul-de-sacs appear as promising as the orange groves did to Dust Bowl refugees. Armed with an $8,000 tax credit and low mortgage rates, they have flocked to cities like Riverside, where auctioneers sell off foreclosed properties by the dozens from the courthouse steps. (See 10 things to do in Los Angeles...
...former presidential candidate John McCain, voted against the bill in '83. The state did not vote in favor of recognizing the holiday until 1992, not only rejecting pleas from Reagan and then Arizona governor Evan Mecham but also losing the NFL's support when the league moved Super Bowl XXVII from Sun Devil Stadium, in Tempe, to California in protest. Arizona was not the only state openly contemptuous of federal law. In 2000, 17 years after the law's official passage and the same year it pulled the Confederate flag down from its statehouse dome, South Carolina became the last...