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Message: [QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 1781311, member: 1023"] Nice post...that was Ali. He loved people. Even if you disagreed with his positions you had to admire his courage in standing up for them. He revolutionized sports culture in America (for better or worse) and had a huge impact beyond it. One little point. The Supreme Court didn't quite "exonerate" him. It never said he was within his rights. It reversed his conviction on what might really be called a legal technicality: that there was no record of what part of the law was being relied on to convict him, so the conviction had to overturned. According to Bob Woodward's book "The Brethren"...the first court vote was split 4-4 (Justice Marshall abstained). Then they came up with this little angle to get a unanimous 8-0 decision. [/QUOTE]