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...Beyond the fact that some people want to root for a team without having to root for its savior, making religion an organizational conviction raises plenty of questions. The Rockies don't exclude non-Christians - pitcher Jason Hirsh is Jewish - but if "Christian values" seep too deeply into the team's thinking, isn't discrimination, even of the subconscious kind, a danger...
...hard not to root for a guy--even a filthy-rich guy--who loses his dream job by standing up for a colleague's wife. But veteran banking analyst Richard Bove of the brokerage firm Punk Ziegel says Dimon owed his big quarter to a billion dollars in onetime gains. "Apart from that, JPMorgan's results are just as bad as everybody else's," he says. He has similar concerns about Goldman Sachs. Bove's verdict: We're in the midst of a "systemic debt crisis" from which no one can emerge unscathed...
...thing hasn’t: the Beantown nine are still a collection of likeable guys, guys that, despite the recent success of their franchise, are fun to root...
...greatest run ever, in the oldest game ever, on the biggest stage ever? You’d have to be an idiot not to root for that...
...unbeatably marketable David and Goliath scenario. As Dane Cook would say: this team stands “A MILE HIGH.” With the steroid controversy more present than ever in the Commissioner’s Office and in the minds of fans, America is happy to root for the scrappy underdogs against the big, bad, money-laden sluggers...