Heads and tales: Cool standings
By Wade Kwon
Slip-sliding away: Birmingham’s Vonetta Flowers, along with teammate Jean Prahm, competed in the first two of four heats in two-women bobsled competition earlier today in the 2006 Winter Olympics. How did the twosome do in Turin? (No spoilers until the jump for those of you who, for some reason, TiVo’d this afternoon’s tape-delay broadcast.)
• Bobsled results [NBC Olympics]
Building a legacy: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church received national landmark status today. The church was the site of the 1963 bombing that killed four girls. But you know you’ve really made it when you’re worth hundreds of dollars as a “Jeopardy!” clue.
• Alabama church bombed in '63 gets designation amid church arsons [Associated Press]
Bringing in outsiders: Think it’s cold this week? Try enduring it outside, like the estimated 3,000 homeless individuals do each night in Birmingham. But can we end homelessness, especially as federal dollars are disappearing? Homeless advocates are struggling against shrinking resources and wavering public attentnion. Said Rev. Lawton Higgs, “We live in what is supposed to be one of the most religious states in America but if we can allow this kind of suffering to go on, we are spiritually ill people.ā€¯ Amen.
• Scaling the Wall [Birmingham Weekly]
Also:
- Forest Park partner promises to clean gutters without really meaning it
- National Guard called in to monitor county commission
- Downtown protestors decry War on Presidents Day
Olympics bobsledding results after the jump …
Bobsled results: After two runs, Flowers and Prahm are in ninth place with a combined time of 1:55.64, 0.71 seconds behind the first-place German team. The other American team, Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming, is in third place, just 0.09 seconds off the lead. The competition’s final two runs take place Tuesday, airing on tape delay some time between 7 and 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on NBC 13.
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