Harvey Updyke

Leaves on the Nike soccer cleats two historic oak trees that guard Auburn University's entrance are shriveled and a sickly yellow-green, a signature of the poison poured over the ground below. Harvey Updyke Jr. maintains now he didn't do it, that he called into a talk-radio show and claimed credit only to fire - on Alabama's behalf - the latest, loudest shot in one of sport's most vengeful rivalries.
What he incited, remarkably, was a Nike mercurial soccer cleats measure of civility.
'Bama fans were scarcely less repulsed than their Auburn counterparts, and joined in condemnation of the act and efforts to New nike soccer shoes save the two 30-foot trees. Three months later, the two sides found more common ground. Auburn fans joined the rest of a stunned state in rallying around Tuscaloosa - home to the University of Alabama - and other areas ravaged by a deadly outbreak of tornadoes.
"I think it's changed Alabama fans as much as it's changed Auburn people," says Holly Hart, a Birmingham interior designer and orange-and-blue-bleeding member of a three-generation Auburn family. "We may not love one another, but I think there's a new Nike mercurial soccer cleats respect."