Good Tuesday morning to you, as we mark a historic day in Alabama…

Weather: Toasty. Summertime is here in earnest now, as today will by sunny and hot with highs around 94 and nighttime lows in the lower 70s. Wednesday will be pretty much the same.

The last stand. It was 50 years ago today that Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium at the campus of the University of Alabama, making one last stand for segregation in the face of an Alabama National Guard that had been federalized by President John F. Kennedy. In what was as much political and racial theater as it was an actual act of defiance, Wallace was trying to prevent two black students from enrolling in the school, but eventually relented when the Guard accompanied them to registration. Today, the event is remembered in a Tuscaloosa ceremony that will include Gov. Robert Bentley, who witnessed the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” personally as a student in 1963.

The leaker has left. Edward Snowden, the man who admits to leaking information about the National Security Agency’s monitoring of telephone and Internet usage by American citizens, has left his hotel in Hong Kong and disappeared. Snowden is expected to be the subject of an extradition request by the U.S. to Hong Kong in the coming days. Meanwhile, politicians in Washington are still sorting through the revelations that Snowden provided to The Guardian and The Washington Post, and dealing with the fallout.

Sports: Tebow has a new gig. The college football phenom turned NFL washout has another chance to make a career in the pros, as the former Florida quarterback was signed by the New England Patriots. Tebow, who was released after a tumultuous year with the New York Jets, is expected to be a backup for starter Tom Brady… Baseball: The Birmingham Barons, now well into their first season at their new downtown home, have clinched a berth in the Southern League playoffs with a 7-3 win over Jacksonville on Monday evening. The victory gives the Barons the first-half division title. Meanwhile, the team continues to do boffo box-office numbers, with average attendance roughly double what it was through the same point last season at the Hoover Met.