People and Pop Culture
The Market
A measured look at this week's holdings
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Standing Strong
Ole Miss Athletic Director Ross Bjork and men’s basketball coach Kermit Davis (above) supported eight Rebels players who knelt during the national anthem before their home game on Feb. 23 in protest of pro-Confederacy groups marching on campus that day. The entire team stood at Ole Miss’s
next home game on Feb. 27.
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Too Soon
Clippers announcers Ralph Lawler and Don McLean joked on Fox Sports Prime Ticket last week about the whereabouts of former Michigan and NBA player Robert “Tractor” Traylor without realizing that he had died in 2011 of a heart attack. The two apologized later in the game.
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Kick Start
Thirteen-year-old soccer player Olivia Moultrie announced that she had signed deals with Wasserman and Nike, forfeiting the scholarship to the University of North Carolina she had accepted at age 11 and launching her professional career. Despite her physical gifts, Moultrie is too young to accurately forecast whether this is the right move.
