March 3, 2000

Some College Teams Boycott South Carolina Over Confederate Flag

The Yankees aren't coming. Not so many of them, anyway.

The controversy surrounding the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina State House has spread to college sports. This spring, several colleges have pulled teams out of competition in South Carolina in support of the N.A.A.C.P.'s call for a tourism boycott of the state.

Gregory Kannerstein, athletics director at Haverford College, said he had been having second thoughts about sending the

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