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...caught dead where nobody could find him. He is a showboater, a character. He works hard to burnish a high-gloss image as the gum-popping, strutting leader of coach John Smith's Handling Speed Intelligently team, a stable of hip-hop athletes who train at UCLA's Drake Stadium and hang together in the off-hours. In a strategy similar to the Jones camp's, the honchos at HSI sought to approximate L.A. in Sydney by renting a beach house in Coogee. Sharing it were four HSI sprinters: Greene, Jon Drummond, Curtis Johnson and Ato Boldon. They were clearly...
...people had taken two very different routes to arrive within .88 sec. of each other at the same destination: fastest in the world. And then something happened that showed they were true kin under the skin. As Jones, overwhelmed, broke down sobbing under the stands, Greene was in the stadium behaving in an extraordinary manner - not swaggering, but crying too. "Tears of joy," both runners called them later...
...Supreme Court be damned. The way Jones and others in the mountain community of Forest City see it, their pregame prayer isn't out of bounds. If Justices in Washington are changing the rules and forbidding student-led prayers over the stadium's public-address system, then they have every right to use constitutionally protected radio waves to carry on the tradition. So far, even the American Civil Liberties Union isn't balking at their strategy to get around the court's finding that group prayer at football games amounts to social coercion...
...ongoing clash of Man's Law vs. God's Law, fans at Yellville-Summit High School in Arkansas emptied from the stadium's bleachers two weekends ago and rushed to the 50-yard line, kneeling and praying with cheerleaders, who had traded their pom-poms for banners bearing biblical passages. The local school board, which had voted to test the limits of the court decision, helped organize the students. Over in Knoxville, Tenn., Hannah Wood, 17, an assistant football trainer and chapter president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, persuaded 250 people to form a human prayer chain...
...residents are eager to push the limits of the decision, but others resent agenda-minded outsiders who invite tens of thousands of people to attend home games and recite the Lord's Prayer. In Asheville, N.C., the group We Still Pray, led by pastor Ralph Sexton, filled a football stadium with 12,000 supporters at a rally last month to protest the Supreme Court ruling. The group is also circulating petitions to rewrite the U.S. Constitution...