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Super Bowl® party nixed:

• NFL's lawyers sack church's game plan | The thousands of churches across the country that want to host Super Bowl parties Sunday night had better not pull out big-screen TVs, or they could face the wrath of NFL attorneys (The Indianapolis Star)
  
  
• Sorry, churches, the party's over | NFL ban forces nationwide cancellations of Super Bowl events (The Indianapolis Star)
  
  
• NFL sacks church Super Bowl parties | Showings claimed to violate copyright (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
  
  
• NFL pressure on Indy church to cancel Super Bowl party called 'outrageous' | Pastor says church church won't file any legal action, although it will ask its legislators to change the law (Baptist Press)
  
  
• Local churches plan to offer football and religion | But at least one church will send people home before kickoff (The Star Press, Muncie, Ind.)
  
  
• Religion today: The churches that are still partying | Congregations across the country are tapping the popularity of sports in hopes of saving souls (Associated Press)
  
  
• Suburban churches change service times for Super Bowl | Evening services moved, canceled (WBBM, Chicago)
  
  
• NFL fumbles on church event | The NFL deserves a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct (Editorial, The Indianapolis Star)
  
  

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More sports :

• Liberty's triplets turning heads on the court | As the only basketball-playing triplets in Division I, the Frazees and the evangelical school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell are proving a perfect match (Associated Press)
  
  
• It's character, not color, that separates Smith, Dungy | People should celebrate star coaches for their accomplishments instead of focusing on the color of their skin. (Michael Smith, ESPN)
  
  
• Under interrogation, Bears' Johnson rests his defense | Johnson, who was arrested in December after police stormed his home and found a stash of weapons and then saw his good friend and bodyguard shot to death at a nightclub the next day, was blasted after he said earlier this week that the coverage of his troubles was "overblown" and that his Christian faith had gotten him through the troubles (The Washington Post)
  
  

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Entertainment, art, and media :

• Black churches are urged to denounce gangsta rap | An influential pastor from Atlanta tells his peers from around the country that the music has a negative effect on young people (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• She has faith in latest album | Rickie Lee Jones was moved to record rock songs based on the words of Jesus (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Lost souls, and puppets, in a tour of the afterlife | The Magis Theater Company is daring to be different with a thought-provoking adaptation of "The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis's story about a bus ride through heaven and hell (The New York Times)
  
  
• In search of evangelicals | New York actors craft a musical on Colorado Springs faithful (Rocky Mountain News)
  
  
• God, Satan and Southern Times feature in court scrap | One of Namibia's fastest-growing churches, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, yesterday turned to the High Court to look for some earthly justice for being referred to as a "Satanic sect" in a weekly State-owned newspaper (The Namibian)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2007, Vol. 51