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Players to Watch: Greg Abbruzzese (TB), Solomon Johnson (RB), Gary Comstock (WR), Bruce Mayhew (QB), Lex Matthews (DT), Quinn Cochran (OT), Javier Loya...
...Bridget Mergens Mayhew, the idea of forming an extracurricular Christian club at Omaha's Westside High School five years ago seemed simple enough. "There are a lot of pressures on kids," she recalls, "and we just wanted to get together and pray." But school authorities turned down her plea, fearing it would violate the separation of church and state. The refusal touched off a fractious legal battle that last week culminated in a spectacular win for Mayhew and her friends: a major decision from the U.S. Supreme Court barring discrimination against voluntary religious clubs in public high schools. The court...
...surprisingly, Mayhew was elated by the court decision. "This is a clear statement that school administrators across the U.S. must respect the religious beliefs of students and allow them to form clubs for prayer and support," she said. Much of the country's religious establishment also welcomed the ruling. "The court recognized the critical distinction between school-sponsored and student-sponsored religion: the former is unconstitutional; the latter is not," declared the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the Christian Legal Society, the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Council of Churches in a joint statement. But some groups...
...Bruce Mayhew pulled Columbia (1-9-0, 1-6-0) back to a five-point margin, 33-28, with a 7-yd. touchdown run up the middle, but Skinner widened the margin with a 1-yd. score late in the third quarter...