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...explain it. Let me help them out. We in the black community know full well that not enough white Americans will go into the voting booth and pull the lever for a black man to be President, so we don't want to throw our votes away on an underdog black candidate. And 90% of black voters do not vote Republican because, while we might not always know who is for us, we definitely know who is against us. Vernon S. Burton San Leandro, California...
...help them out. We in the black community know full well that not enough white Americans will go into the voting booth and pull the lever for a black man to be the President, so we don't want to throw our votes away on an underdog black candidate. And 90% of black voters do not vote Republican because, while we might not always know who is for us, we definitely know who is against us. Vernon S. Burton San Leandro, California...
...Monday.Co-captain Gideon Valkin took the crown in singles, beating the Tigers’ Peter Capkovic, the top-seeded player in the tournament, 7-6, 2-6, 6-4.“It was a very big win,” Valkin said. “I was the underdog, but I knew that I was good enough to beat the guy. I rose to the occasion and played well.”The South African went 5-0 overall, losing only three sets. Fish likened Valkin’s performance to the play of Boston-area athletes from...
...list of the "10 Best Sports Moments" [Dec. 25, 2006--Jan. 1, 2007]: Major League Baseball holds a small contest between two teams each year around the end of October. Perhaps TIME has heard of it. It's called the World Series. This year it was won by the underdog St. Louis Cardinals. I find it hard to believe that the incessant ball hogging of the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant was anywhere near the achievements made in the postseason by the Redbirds in their first year in the new Busch Stadium. Not only that, but Tony LaRussa managed circles...
Call it an underdog, a dark horse, a seventh-round draft pick--just don't ignore the fall's best new series (based on the book and movie) any longer. This high school football drama is a moving, warts-and-all portrait of life in hard-up Dillon, Texas, nailing the fine points of small-town politics and faith that TV too often romanticizes or ignores. It's a poignant picture of what a championship team means to a town that can't afford to wait till next year...