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The commish, camaraderie and coffee: Remembering how Mike Slive loved to hang out at diner

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He just walked in one day. Everyone at Salem’s Diner immediately knew who he was – in Alabama, the SEC commissioner is a very, very big deal – but no one was quite sure why he was there. Turned out, Mike Slive simply wanted a diner like he remembered from back home. He was looking for a place to call his own.

And he immediately owned the place.