As a capacity crowd holds their breath, sophomore sensation DELROY LINKS falls dead during the biggest game of his career. Simultaneously, Delroy?s death effectively ends the career of brand-named college basketball coaching legend, PHIL NEVERS. Rumors allege Nevers chose to withhold reports of Links condition in an effort to secure the conference championship. Two years later, and after a five-year hiatus from competitive athletics, MT. CHRISTOPHER UNIVERSITY reinstates their athletic program. And like most universities looking to jumpstart a newly awakened sports program, they need an influential personality to not only secure a winning team, but to validate the existence of that program. In the case of Mt. Christopher, among the names mentioned as possible head basketball coach is former University of South Alabama head coach, Phil Nevers. Meanwhile, the severe racial restraints of the south challenges a budding friendship between

Basedon Harper Lees Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is alawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees todefend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many ofthe townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but hedecides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it changeany of the racial tension in the town

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