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Our Editorial Board is curious about the Pulpit Forum's planned role in District 1 politics. Will it confine its support for T. Dianne Bellamy-Small to the recall election, or will it continue to promote her candidacy as she seeks re-election to another full term? We hope today's press conference will shed some light on that. Allen plans to attend.

We will write an editorial for tomorrow about Skip Prosser's death. ACC basketball coaches are important people around here, and Wake Forest is the Triad's ACC representative.

Prosser's teams were generally successful on the court, but more importantly he promoted the right values and priorities. He was well liked and respected. His death is a shocking tragedy.

Some could say that anything about a basketball coach, no matter how fine a person he was, belongs on the sports pages and not the front page or editorial page. We don't agree. Prosser's death is the most compelling story in the Triad today. Many of us are consumed by ACC basketball for five or six months every year, and we come to know the players and coaches almost on a personal level. We care about them as people, not just sports figures.

Other sports stories lately have commanded news headlines: Michael Vick's arrest on charges related to dog fighting, the doping scandal that's turning the Tour de France into a travesty, and Barry Bonds' pursuit of baseball's all-time home-run record. Sure, none of it is as important as the war in Iraq or other world crises, but in their own way they present human drama showing us at our best and worst. They are the news of the day.