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After earning a B.A. in public administration, Lott enrolled in the Ole Miss law school. By now his parents were separated and unable to help him financially. He had saved some money from summer jobs at a root-beer stand in Pascagoula and at the local hospital as a janitor mopping rooms. He took out federal student loans. And he secured paid jobs with the university, first as a recruiter and later as a fund raiser for the alumni association, where he expanded his political network...
...doubting Thomases need only look at the atrocious uniforms of the mid-80s Houston Astros. How anyone could root for those shirts is beyond...
College sports are of course forgivable. When Kyle Snowden leaves, we will still root for Harvard basketball. Carm Cozza's departure will probably not extinguish the last of the Yale diehards. Most of the people you find in Blodgett Pool cheering on the water polo team have an emotional stake in the game from some personal link to Harvard...
Even people who root for schools they do not attend know exactly what they are rooting for--a college. If the Tarheels leave Chapel Hill, they would cease to be the Tarheels, and my roommate would no longer follow them...
...Holy shit," Johnson initially muttered before composing himself for the press. "It's hard [to root for Penn]--I've hated the Quakers for so long...