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...this month set up a website called boycottalabamanow.com. But southerners ask who the hypocrites really are. "When the textile industry went down in the South and we were accused of being behind the times, we didn't ask for a bailout - we just had to reinvent ourselves," says John Jeter, a South Carolina author whose family owns a small chain of auto parts stores and whose new novel, The Plunder Room, examines the modern southern character. "So southerners feel it takes some audacity for northern businessmen who make millions to come holding out beggar's bowls for billions...
...hate the olympic spirit. No competition should be ruined by an undercurrent of peace and harmony. Would baseball be better if Derek Jeter hugged David Ortiz after every game and talked about how wonderful Boston is? If you want an endless event in which everyone pretends to respect everybody else, go to couples therapy. If I'm going to spend two weeks watching something, I want to see some people pouring Champagne on one another and some people crying at the end of it. That's why I watch the baseball playoffs and Girls Gone Wild. How damaging to sports...
...native New Yorker, a lifelong Yankees devotee, and bona fide Jetermaniac stand to reside in the heart of Red Sox Nation for the next four years of my life? Would I ever feel welcome in a place where the interlocking N-Y was off-limits? And what of Jeter? What about Jeter? This future was hard to imagine, but I also figured that the Harvard thing might be worth a shot. And might I remind you that, at the time, the latest chapter in the Sox-Yankees rivalry had been penned by Aaron Boone, the unlikeliest of postseason heroes...
Facing a year in prison in 1959 for marrying across racial lines, Mildred Jeter Loving, a black woman, and her white husband Richard Loving decided to fight the legal system in their home state of Virginia. In 1967 the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Justices ruled unanimously against the Virginia decision. Chief Justice Earl Warren dismissed such laws as "repugnant" to the Constitution. In words that seem prescient today, Loving said in 1965, "We are not marrying the state. The law should allow a person to marry anyone he wants...
...time. His weight's okay, and he doesn't appear to have lost any bat-speed, but he's getting in the hole early in counts, swinging at bad pitches, pressing. He'll be fine by mid-season, I think. Fans have to remember that players like Derek Jeter (and even Teddy Ballgame) have gone through similar periods. A-Rod had one last year...