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Mother's Day (U.S.)

History

The first attempts to establish a "Mother's Day" in the U.S. were mostly marked by women's peace groups. A common early activity was the meeting of groups of mothers whose sons had fought or died on opposite sides of the American Civil War. There were several limited observances in the 1870s and the 1880s but none achieved resonance beyond the local level.

In 1868 Ann Jarvis created a committee to establish a "Mother's Friendship Day" whose purpose was "to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War", and she wanted to expand it into an annual memorial for mothers, but she died in 1905 before the celebration became popular. Her daughter Anna Jarvis would continue her mother's efforts.

In New York City, Julia Ward Howe led a "Mother's Day" anti-war observance on June 2, 1872, which was accompanied by a Mother's Day Proclamation. The observance continued in Boston for about 10 years under Howe's personal sponsorship, then died out.

Several years later a Mother's Day observance on May 13, 1877 was held in Albion, Michigan over a dispute related to the temperance movement. According to local legend, Albion pioneer Juliet Calhoun Blakeley stepped up to complete the sermon of the Rev. Myron Daughterty who was distraught because an anti-temperance group had forced his son and two other temperance advocates to spend the night in a saloon and become publicly drunk. From the pulpit Blakeley called on other mothers to join her. Blakeley's two sons, both traveling salesmen, were so moved that they vowed to return each year to pay tribute to her and embarked on a campaign to urge their business contacts to do likewise. At their urging, in the early 1880s, the Methodist Episcopal Church in Albion set aside the second Sunday in May to recognize the special contributions of mothers.

Frank E. Hering, President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, made the first known public plea for "a national day to honor our mothers" in 1904.

In its present form, Mother's Day was established by Anna Marie Jarvis, with the help of Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker following the death of her mother Ann Jarvis on May 9, 1905. A small service was held on May 12, 1907 in the Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia where Anna's mother had been teaching Sunday school. But the first "official" service was on May 10, 1908 in the same church, accompanied by a larger ceremony in the Wanamaker Auditorium in the Wanamaker's store on Philadelphia. She then campaigned to establish Mother's Day first as a U.S. national holiday and then later as an international holiday.

The holiday was declared officially by the state of West Virginia in 1910, and the rest of states followed quickly. On May 8, 1914, the U.S. Congress passed a law designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and requesting a proclamation. On May 9, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother's Day as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war.

In 1934, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a stamp commemorating the holiday.

In May 2008 the U.S. House of Representatives voted twice on a resolution commemorating Mother's Day, the first one being unanimous (with 21 members not voting). The Grafton's church, where the first celebration was held, is now the International Mother's Day Shrine and is a National Historic Landmark.

Kristin Cavallari's Monster Engagement Ring Up Close

Kristen Cavallari was seen at the premiere for Something Borrowed starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, John Krasinski and Colin Egglesfield. It's a lovely little flick about pre-wedding dramz, but it's not likely that K. Cav's even a bit distracted by such poppycock as "jitters" given her impending nuptials to Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler is still providing her with a despicable amount of profound joy. I mean, look at her. When's the last time you saw her look this insanely GLOWING and euphoric? She appears to be emitting light from every pore on her person, every strand of glistening hair, and the white, strapless, embroidered sundress just evokes flashes of the morning-after-celebratory-friends-and-family-brunch after the Big Day. Even her tidily short and pristine manicure looks positively matrimonial. She's also wearing her sandal wedges she designed for charity, sold at ShoeDazzle which complement the summery aesthetic gloriously. In short, she looks great, and every aspect of her outfit works splendidly.

Aaaaaaaaaand, well, of course it does, given that she is also wearing a DELICIOUSLY MASSIVE, four-prong, FLAWLESS ASSCHER-CUT, hella faceted, three-or-so carat *brings out her jeweler's loupe* engagement ring replete with about 1.5-and-change carat accent diamonds on the band (what? I know my rocks. It's totally acceptable to be an unmarried woman of a certain age who is well-versed in precious jewels). Basically, she could be wearing a puce-colored, XXXXL zip-up fleece hoodie with a 3-foot-tall Insane Clown Posse face drawn in puffy paint on it with 12-year-old Wellington boots made expressly for longshoremen and look dazzling. Provided we could see her shine. Congrats, girl. Blind your enemies by harnessing the sun's rays, your own happy-girl phosphorescence and that rock. Make yourself a laser and vanquish your foes. GET IT.

More Sports Dialed In Early Kentucky Derby Favorite After Draw

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Nobody wanted to be No. 1.

No. 20 wasn't too popular, either.

Dialed In managed to avoid both -- the inside rail and far outside -- at Wednesday's post-position draw for the Kentucky Derby.

He was made the early 4-1 favorite for Saturday's race after drawing the favorable No. 8 post, prompting owner Robert LaPenta to let out a cheer. Uncle Mo was the second choice in a full field of 20 horses.

Ten horses have won from the No. 8 position; the last, 50-1 shocker Mine That Bird two years ago.

"It's a big thing, and he deserves it," two-time Derby winner Nick Zito said, referring to his horse's status as the favorite. Dialed In has won 3 of 4 career races.

Three times in the last seven runnings the favorite has worn the garland of roses, most recently Big Brown in 2008.

"So far, so good," Zito said. "If he has another couple of good days we'll be happy. Things are doing all right."

Things haven't been quite so right for Uncle Mo, who drew the No. 18 post, three slots from the outside. The colt is being treated for a gastrointestinal infection, which was blamed for his stunning first-ever defeat in last month's Wood Memorial.

Owner Mike Repole has said if Uncle Mo isn't sufficiently recovered, he won't run in the 1 1/4-mile Derby. Trainer Todd Pletcher, however, said Uncle Mo might be able to win even if he's at less than his best.

"But we're committed to bringing him over there at 100 percent, anything less than that, we won't accept," he said.

Uncle Mo, last year's 2-year-old champion, jogged a mile around the dirt track at Churchill Downs and later stood in the starting gate to familiarize himself with the surroundings. He is scheduled to gallop on Thursday.

"I've always said I think he's the best horse of his generation," Pletcher said. "We proved that last year and identified what we thought was the reason for the poor performance in the Wood. I think if he shows up and he's the Uncle Mo from the Breeders' Cup or the Champagne or even the Timely Writer, he's the horse to beat."

Uncle Mo would have to overcome a bit of history.

Only one horse since 1900 has come out of the No. 18 hole to win and that was Gato Del Sol in 1982.

Still, Pletcher and Repole were relieved to have avoided the rail.

"We had this overlying fear we were going to get the 1," the trainer said. "Once it was anything besides that we were happy."

Repole's other colt, Stay Thirsty -- also trained by Pletcher -- landed in the No. 4 post and is 20-1 on the morning line set by Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia.

Pletcher ended an 0-for-24 skid in the Derby last year when Super Saver won from the No. 4 post.

Nehro was the third choice at 6-1. The other 17 horses were listed at double-digit odds.

The dreaded No. 1 post -- the last position revealed -- went to Arkansas Derby winner Archarcharch. That spot did in last year's Derby favorite, Lookin At Lucky, who was blocked behind horses and finished sixth for trainer Bob Baffert.

"I have always wanted to be No. 1, but not in the Kentucky Derby starting gate," said Jinks Fires, the 70-year-old trainer of Archarcharch who will give specific race instructions to jockey Jon Court, his son-in-law.

"I'll just tell Jon to get good position, save ground and figure out a way to get out. It is still the shortest way around and at least I am not out next to the track kitchen."

Like Uncle Mo's connections, Baffert was happy that stalker Midnight Interlude escaped the inside post.

"My wife texted me. She's at LAX and said, `If we draw the No. 1, let me know so I can get off the plane,"' he said. "This is the toughest part of getting through the whole Derby. From now on it's the luck.

"I wanted to be on the outside. When you have a lightly raced horse you want to keep him in the clear as much as possible."

Archarcharch and Midnight Interlude were the co-fourth choices.

The other trainer with two starters is Mike Maker, who will saddle Twinspired and Derby Kitten.

A total of 22 horses were entered, two more than the maximum allowed field of 20, which is based on earnings in graded stakes races. Sway Away and Ruler On Ice were shut out because their earnings weren't high enough to put them among the top 20.

Mosley Is Ready For Pacquiao

LAS VEGAS – Almost a year to the day earlier, Shane Mosley sat in the same chair in the same room in the same casino and said nearly the same things about an upcoming fight against a superstar opponent.

He brushed off questions about his age. He dismissed suggestions that he was in decline. He insisted that he would stun those who sized up his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and came away believing Mayweather would win in a rout.

That was in 2010, and a few days later, Mosley was drummed by Mayweather, beaten like he had never been beaten before. He won only one of the 12 rounds and only won that one because of a single right hand which landed and hurt Mayweather in the waning moments of the second round. If he could have avoided that one punch, Mayweather would have had himself a shutout.

Fast forward a year, and Mosley is now 39, pushing 40. He’s an 8-1 underdog to Manny Pacquiao, yet he beams when it’s suggested it’s too old, out of his league, no longer fast enough to defeat the man now almost universally regarded as the best boxer in the world.

He fights Pacquiao on Saturday for the World Boxing Organization welterweight title in the main event of a pay-per-view card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and will, he says, make believers of those who question his ability to compete at the highest level.

He concedes he’s no longer the physical specimen he was when, as a lightweight, he had some very credible boxing experts proclaiming him among the greatest in the division’s rich history, though he said his hand and foot speed is still very much above average.

He’s a smarter and wiser boxer today, he’ll tell you, than he was a year ago when he was preparing to face Mayweather. The only difference, however, other than another candle on the cake, is that he’s 0-1-1 since then and looking every bit like a one-time star on the downside.

But his trainer, Naazim Richardson, said Mosley has one of the highest boxing IQs he’s ever met and has taken advantage of every round he’s been in the ring.

Mosley has learned to adapt, Richardson said, as his body has evolved.

“Sometimes, we critique athletes at a level where we lose sight of what’s important ourselves,” Richardson said. “When I was a young man and I went out to the car to get the groceries, I went out there and I grabbed every bag and threw them on my shoulder and brought them in the house. As I got older, I took more trips to get the bags. As I got even older, I looked at my sons and made them get the bags. We make adjustments as we get older in everything that we do.

“Nobody is doing things the way they used to do them. This is how it is in sports. Like anything else, naturally, you get smarter and you make the necessary adjustments to cater to those reflexes getting a little slower.”

Slow reflexes are a big problem for any boxer against Pacquiao, who has lightning fast hands and may be one of the best-conditioned athletes in all of sports.

Antonio Margarito is a heavy-handed puncher, but he’s slow and lacks quickness. When Pacquiao fought Margarito in Dallas in November, he landed 474 punches, the eighth-most in a championship fight in the 25 years that CompuBox has been counting punches, despite giving up more than 20 pounds by the time the bell rang to start the bout.

Though it’s true that Margarito landed far more punches on Pacquiao than he did on Mosley (229 landed against Pacquiao compared to 108 landed against Mosley), part of that is because the Pacquiao fight went the full 12 rounds and the Mosley fight ended early in the ninth.

Additionally, 41 percent of the punches Margarito landed on Pacquiao were jabs, while just 17 percent of the punches Margarito landed on Mosley were jabs. In essence, Margarito landed a far higher percentage of cleaner, harder punches against Mosley than he did against Pacquiao.

It’s also nearly 2 1/2 years since Mosley’s stunning upset of Margarito.

Mosley, though, is emboldened by the sheer numbers alone.

“You know, if Margarito could hit Pacquiao as often as he did, wow,” Mosley said. “I know I’m quicker than Margarito.”

Mosley’s a relentless optimist, and nothing anyone says will convince him that he’s anything less than the elite fighter he was earlier in this decade. His father, Jack, his original coach, is much the same way.

And as a reporter recounted all the challenges Shane faces against Pacquiao, Jack Mosley broke into a broad grin. If he’s worried about his son’s health, he does a good job of hiding it.

“You know, Shane’s heard it for years, how he couldn’t do this and how he couldn’t do that,” Jack Mosley said. “Even when he was a kid, people would tell him this guy was too big or that guy was too fast, but Shane beat ‘em all. And when he fought Oscar (De La Hoya), everybody kept telling me what Oscar was going to do to him. But then Shane went out and beat him twice.

“Shane’s got the tools to beat this guy. He knows what he has to do and he has the ability to go out there and do it.”

Part of the reason that Richardson is so confident in Mosley’s chances is because of how well his father taught him. Mosley, Richardson said, is as wise as anyone in the game and is remarkable in his ability to follow a game plan.

When Mosley fought Margarito, he landed a hard body shot in the first round that made Margarito wince. When Mosley walked back to the corner, he said to Richardson, “I got him.”

Richardson, though, didn’t want Mosley to abandon the game plan and go for the knockout. And so for eight more rounds, Mosley systematically stuck to the plan and broke Margarito down. It’s why he believes Mosley will have a chance to score the upset on Saturday.

“Shane doesn’t get the credit for having such a high IQ in boxing,” Richardson said. “When you see the physical attributes he has, a lot of times we lose the sense of remembering what an intelligent fighter he’s been over the years. I was taken aback when I started working with him how high his IQ is. He really understands it.”

And so, despite the odds, despite his recent history, Mosley believes. This isn’t a guy who’s just showing up to cash a $5 million check and squeeze out a few extra moments in the spotlight.

This is a guy, four months shy of his 40th birthday, who totally believes he’s going to beat the best fighter in the world on Saturday. His experience, he said, is the difference.

“I’ve faced a lot of different people with a lot of different styles,” Mosley said. “He’s not been in there with guys like that.”

And it’s safe to say that Mosley hasn’t been in with anyone like Pacquiao. For that, he’s glad. He loves boxing, he loves competition and, most of all, he loves proving people wrong.

Dirk Came Out Firing Again Sends Mavs to 2-0 Lead

LOS ANGELES -- Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks let loose with a few primal howls as they left the court, cutting through the scattered boos and gloomy silence at Staples Center.

After back-to-back wins over the Los Angeles Lakers, the Mavericks are headed home with something coach Rick Carlisle insists they expected.

These longtime playoff disappointments have a golden opportunity to knock out the two-time defending champions.

Nowitzki scored 24 points, Shawn Marion added 14 and the Mavericks stunned the erratic Lakers 93-81 in Game 2 on Wednesday night, taking a 2-0 second-round lead with consecutive road wins.

"If you would have told me before that were going to win both games, that would have been hard to believe," Nowitzki said. "But I think we earned it."

Jason Kidd scored 10 points for the Mavericks, who pushed the Lakers halfway to playoff elimination with Nowitzki's stellar shooting, another steady defensive performance, and a decisive 9-0 fourth-quarter rally. Dallas did nothing spectacularly well, yet was significantly better than the cold-shooting Lakers on both ends.

"We came to compete, and we came to make something happen here," Marion said. "We made our presence felt on both ends of the floor tonight. We did a good job of handling their pressure and just going out there and doing what we've been doing all postseason, just playing good defense and just playing our style of play."

Kobe Bryant scored 23 points for the Lakers, who hadn't lost the first two games of a playoff series since the 2008 NBA finals -- also the last series they lost. Only three NBA teams have come back to win a best-of-seven series after losing the first two at home, where dismayed fans sent the Lakers off with boos and jeers.

"We came here to win two games," Carlisle said. "We're going to need every gun blazing and throw the kitchen sink at these guys when they come to our place."

Game 3 is Friday night in Dallas.

Los Angeles missed its first 15 3-point attempts in Game 2, only avoiding its first playoff game without a 3-pointer since May 8, 2001, on Bryant's 3-pointer with 2:43 left. Los Angeles finished 2 for 20 on 3-pointers, but the Lakers also appeared simply exhausted during long stretches of their 75th playoff game in the last four seasons.

Center Andrew Bynum saw another reason for the Lakers' frustrations.

"It's deeply rooted at this point. It's obvious that we have trust issues, individually," said Bynum, who had 18 points and 13 rebounds. "All 13 of our guys have trust issues right now. I think it's quite obvious to anyone watching the game -- hesitation on passes, and defensively we're not being a good teammate because he wasn't there for you before -- little things. And unless we come out and discuss them, nothing is going to change."

Bryant wrote off Bynum's comments as concerns about the Lakers' defensive communication.

"I think the trust that he's referring to is being able to help each other on the defensive end of the floor," Bryant said. "You saw a lot of layups. He gets frustrated when he supports a guard coming off the screen-and-roll and nobody supports him."

But Los Angeles also could be without its defensive stopper in Dallas: Ron Artest was ejected with 24.4 seconds left for clotheslining Dallas guard Jose Barea, possibly leading to a suspension. Even Lakers coach Phil Jackson conceded "there's a good chance" he won't have Artest on Friday.

"It's not a basketball play, so we'll see what happens," Barea said.

After years of playoff underachievement during owner Mark Cuban's tenure, the Mavericks certainly appear primed to change their reputation.

Dallas, which won just one playoff series in the past four years before this spring, was more aggressive and inventive than the champs, maintaining a steady lead before breaking it open with nine straight points down the stretch in the rally led by Barea, who highlighted it with an impressive short shot directly over Bynum. Barea had 12 points and four assists.

Cuban led the cheers behind Dallas' bench as the Mavs pulled away in the fourth quarter. Not even Bryant could save the Lakers, going scoreless in the fourth until hitting two free throws with 3:11 to play.

Bynum and Pau Gasol haven't been able to control the paint with their usual vehemence against the Mavericks' three 7-footers. Gasol had 13 points and 10 rebounds, but appeared tentative for long stretches while struggling to contain Nowitzki.

The Mavericks protected the rim and largely controlled the tempo, using their advantages in depth and athleticism to limit the Lakers' offense. Dallas took a six-point lead into the fourth quarter and stretched it to 10 moments later before coasting home with little opposition from the Lakers, who went 7 for 20 in the final period.

"Desperate? That's a strong word," Bryant said. "I think when you play desperate, you don't play your best basketball. What we need to do is relax, focus on what we're doing wrong and the mistakes that we're making, and we have plenty to review and lock in on that."

Dallas rallied from a 16-point deficit in the second half to win Game 1, finishing on a 9-2 run capped by four last-minute points from Nowitzki, who seems determined to erase memories of the Mavericks' past playoff failures on big stages.

Nowitzki came out firing again in Game 2, scoring 15 points in the first half with the 7-footer's usual array of impossible-to-block fallaway jumpers. The Lakers ran several defenders at him, using Gasol and Lamar Odom before trying Artest in the second quarter.

Pittsburgh Steelers' Hines Ward Briefly Detained at Gunpoint in California

LOS ANGELES -- Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Hines Ward was briefly detained at gunpoint Thursday in a mix-up over a reported stolen car, but he was released without being arrested, police said.

Hines and a woman friend were stopped in her car at about 1:30 a.m. in North Hollywood because she had reported the car stolen on April 19, said Sgt. Maria Morrison.

The two had left a restaurant in North Hollywood, said officer Sara Faden.

Police took Hines out of the car at gunpoint and handcuffed him, Morrison said. Hines and the woman were released after she was able to prove the car was hers.

"She had gone somewhere, misparked it, reported it stolen and found it later" but failed to cancel the police report, Morrison said.

Hines cooperated with police while he was detained, she said.

The woman's name wasn't released, but she isn't Hines' partner on "Dancing With the Stars," Morrison said.