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As Dischord Records founder Ian MacKaye said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYKYU-Qj_Ro\">a 2013 lecture to the Library of Congress\u003c/a>, skateboarding means “learning how to redefine the world around you.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viewers can now take a tour of San Francisco with this unique eye to the streets with art historian, writer and skateboarder \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tedbarrow/?hl=en\">Ted Barrow\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s new web series “This Old Ledge.” Barrow offers a new way of seeing things most residents pass by every day, delivering onsite historical lessons on both the architectural and skateboarding history of key skate spots. 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In one episode, dedicated to the \u003ca href=\"https://artandarchitecture-sf.com/embarcadero-ribbon.html\">Embarcadero Art Ribbon project\u003c/a> that became the skate spot Bay Blocks, Barrow details the “massive compromises” made to the project before construction, including gaps added between the concrete ledges for pedestrian accessibility — and opportunity. “It’s the gaps that activate this as a [skate] spot,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden these ideas crystallize around you,” Barrow tells me. “You can see the actual history of a built environment in a city and how people’s stories impacted the city through the juxtaposition of buildings and different spaces.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-768x381.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R): Karl Watson, nollie 180 switch crooked grind at Pier 7, 1996; Chico Brenes, backside kickflip at Bay Blocks, 1997; Fred Gall, switch crooked grind at Hubba Hideout, 1995. \u003ccite>(Watson and Brenes: Luke Ogden; Gall: Gabe Morford; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barrow returned to the Bay Area a few years ago after many years in New York, teaching art history at such universities as Baruch and City College, while pursuing his PhD (he successfully defended his dissertation this year) and appearing in skate videos. He also gave walking tours, sneaking in skate references when describing the First Customs House where George Washington signed the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It always seemed like there was this very rich history that videos and interviews with skateboarders didn’t always fully address,” he says, particularly around “how we think about space and how we think about place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage boys in baggy shirts on a concrete ledge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Henry Sanchez and John Cardiel at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Tobin Yelland; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting landmarks of modern street skating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“This Old Ledge” begins at Justin Herman Plaza, simply known to skaters as Embarcadero or Embarco. Designed in 1971 by modernist architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11316687/halprins-experiments-in-environment-still-radical-50-years-later\">Lawrence Halprin\u003c/a>, it’s one of several civic-minded projects designed by Halprin in response to a generation of failed urban renewal projects, describing it as a “total environment in which all the elements working together create a place for participation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the plaza’s skateable features have changed over the years. But the silhouettes of former plaza obstacles are still visible along the bricks, Barrow shows, as are thousands of axle marks from skateboarders turning the plaza, from 1991 to 1994, into street skating’s modern laboratory of innovation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13916267']Reading these visual histories is “part of the intimidation of these skate spots,” Barrow explains. “They’re palimpsests: they’ve changed, things have been removed, but you can still read the history of skateboarding etched into those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researching the series, Barrow discovered how “the actual ledges and obstacles that people skated in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s weren’t there. And I always presumed that they were there.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"A backhoe demolishes a large concrete walkway\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After years as a formative skate spot, as detailed in ‘This Old Ledge,’ Hubba Hideout was eventually demolished. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a different episode, we follow Barrow to another skate spot Halprin unintentionally designed, Hubba Hideout. In 1976, Halprin joined a team to connect the Alcoa Building with the waterfront through a pedestrian bridge extending from the building, over Davis Street, and into a newly landscaped plaza. The X-braised Alcoa Building would eventually mark the spot for skaters to find the bridge’s “harsh, brutalist concrete” handrails going down some stairs into a plaza with Halprin’s signature red bricks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, many would “hide out and smoke crack in the middle of one of the most profitable commercial districts in the world in broad daylight” explains Barrow. Hubba, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArkWvlAebg\">Bay Area slang for crack cocaine\u003c/a>, became skate lingo for any concrete ledge acting as a handrail downstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s President, Tony Vitello, describes the now-defunct spot as “a proving ground,” with the nickname representative of San Francisco’s influence on skateboarding. “You could be at a [skatepark] planning meeting with some local government, and they’re talking about a hubba ledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a flannel shirt rides a skateboard high atop a concrete block\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Curtin, switch nosegrind at Bay Blocks. \u003ccite>(Dan Zaslavsky; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A historian’s eye for design and context\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of Vitello’s inspiration for “This Old Ledge” came at jury duty. On the wall of the courthouse was a framed photo of an abandoned San Francisco mansion, the Old Koshland House on Washington Street, whose curved exterior hubba ledge was \u003ca href=\"https://64.media.tumblr.com/b52e8b45d1554d98e9978416f510d2a1/tumblr_nqglutAUZJ1sgg3dvo1_500.gifv\">briefly a popular skate spot\u003c/a>. The photo was “dated the day after the 1906 earthquake,” with notable damage to buildings nearby. Vitello then considered the popular St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and found drawings from when the Cathedral was built. “The out ledge that \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/atlantic-drift-episode-2-st-paul-s/\">everyone has skated\u003c/a> is sitting there in the 1600s, from a period before skateboarding was even invented – that trips me out.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through original videos, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s “been pushing to expand further into personality and cultural stuff,” Vitello says, “beyond just ‘Here’s a [skate] video with music in the background.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This push isn’t only palpable across their nearly seven million Instagram followers, but in the magazine’s hiring a full-time archivist to help log \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s entire photo and video history. Between these archives and the number of San Francisco skate spots replicated in skateparks worldwide, “San Francisco has had such an outsized influence on skateboarding,” Vitello says, “and therefore everything connected to our culture.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1118px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg\" alt=\"Young boys sit on their skateboards amidst a concrete and brick plaza\" width=\"1118\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg 1118w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Kevin Thatcher; courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betsy Gordon, Project Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, struck up a friendship with Barrow at the academic skate conference Pushing Boarders, where they both presented. She attests to his style of teaching: “I appreciate the fact that he has advanced skills and is very well-educated,” she says, “but never makes you feel stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow recently contributed to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianstore.com/four-wheels-and-a-board-11042/\">Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, co-edited by Gordon. She looped in Barrow to write and contribute several pieces, including an introductory chapter to the 1990s section. “Not everybody can have that historian’s eye of seeing that context and say, ‘Oh, that trick for the ‘90s was really progressive’ with a sense of what was possible,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13891248']Still, a skateboarder’s relationship with space evolves over time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding is aging,” Gordon explains. “It was always very future-focused; now there’s more appreciation for history and what came before.” This ongoing relationship with space grounds Barrow’s deep historical knowledge into the present, making his onsite testimonies resonate that much deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vitello places that impact, and the project’s, into his everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you just forget to look up,” he explains. “I’ve found myself, even in a city I grew up in, looking up and looking at things a bit different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘This Old Ledge’ is on \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/\">Thrasher magazine’s website\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ThrasherMag/videos\">YouTube channel\u003c/a> now. New episodes drop each Wednesday. Ted Barrow also runs a Patreon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/beratethebirds\">Berate the Birds\u003c/a>, centered around art history and skateboarding. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden these ideas crystallize around you,” Barrow tells me. “You can see the actual history of a built environment in a city and how people’s stories impacted the city through the juxtaposition of buildings and different spaces.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-768x381.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R): Karl Watson, nollie 180 switch crooked grind at Pier 7, 1996; Chico Brenes, backside kickflip at Bay Blocks, 1997; Fred Gall, switch crooked grind at Hubba Hideout, 1995. \u003ccite>(Watson and Brenes: Luke Ogden; Gall: Gabe Morford; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barrow returned to the Bay Area a few years ago after many years in New York, teaching art history at such universities as Baruch and City College, while pursuing his PhD (he successfully defended his dissertation this year) and appearing in skate videos. He also gave walking tours, sneaking in skate references when describing the First Customs House where George Washington signed the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It always seemed like there was this very rich history that videos and interviews with skateboarders didn’t always fully address,” he says, particularly around “how we think about space and how we think about place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage boys in baggy shirts on a concrete ledge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Henry Sanchez and John Cardiel at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Tobin Yelland; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting landmarks of modern street skating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“This Old Ledge” begins at Justin Herman Plaza, simply known to skaters as Embarcadero or Embarco. Designed in 1971 by modernist architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11316687/halprins-experiments-in-environment-still-radical-50-years-later\">Lawrence Halprin\u003c/a>, it’s one of several civic-minded projects designed by Halprin in response to a generation of failed urban renewal projects, describing it as a “total environment in which all the elements working together create a place for participation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the plaza’s skateable features have changed over the years. But the silhouettes of former plaza obstacles are still visible along the bricks, Barrow shows, as are thousands of axle marks from skateboarders turning the plaza, from 1991 to 1994, into street skating’s modern laboratory of innovation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reading these visual histories is “part of the intimidation of these skate spots,” Barrow explains. “They’re palimpsests: they’ve changed, things have been removed, but you can still read the history of skateboarding etched into those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researching the series, Barrow discovered how “the actual ledges and obstacles that people skated in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s weren’t there. And I always presumed that they were there.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"A backhoe demolishes a large concrete walkway\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After years as a formative skate spot, as detailed in ‘This Old Ledge,’ Hubba Hideout was eventually demolished. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a different episode, we follow Barrow to another skate spot Halprin unintentionally designed, Hubba Hideout. In 1976, Halprin joined a team to connect the Alcoa Building with the waterfront through a pedestrian bridge extending from the building, over Davis Street, and into a newly landscaped plaza. The X-braised Alcoa Building would eventually mark the spot for skaters to find the bridge’s “harsh, brutalist concrete” handrails going down some stairs into a plaza with Halprin’s signature red bricks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, many would “hide out and smoke crack in the middle of one of the most profitable commercial districts in the world in broad daylight” explains Barrow. Hubba, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArkWvlAebg\">Bay Area slang for crack cocaine\u003c/a>, became skate lingo for any concrete ledge acting as a handrail downstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s President, Tony Vitello, describes the now-defunct spot as “a proving ground,” with the nickname representative of San Francisco’s influence on skateboarding. “You could be at a [skatepark] planning meeting with some local government, and they’re talking about a hubba ledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a flannel shirt rides a skateboard high atop a concrete block\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Curtin, switch nosegrind at Bay Blocks. \u003ccite>(Dan Zaslavsky; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A historian’s eye for design and context\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of Vitello’s inspiration for “This Old Ledge” came at jury duty. On the wall of the courthouse was a framed photo of an abandoned San Francisco mansion, the Old Koshland House on Washington Street, whose curved exterior hubba ledge was \u003ca href=\"https://64.media.tumblr.com/b52e8b45d1554d98e9978416f510d2a1/tumblr_nqglutAUZJ1sgg3dvo1_500.gifv\">briefly a popular skate spot\u003c/a>. The photo was “dated the day after the 1906 earthquake,” with notable damage to buildings nearby. Vitello then considered the popular St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and found drawings from when the Cathedral was built. “The out ledge that \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/atlantic-drift-episode-2-st-paul-s/\">everyone has skated\u003c/a> is sitting there in the 1600s, from a period before skateboarding was even invented – that trips me out.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through original videos, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s “been pushing to expand further into personality and cultural stuff,” Vitello says, “beyond just ‘Here’s a [skate] video with music in the background.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This push isn’t only palpable across their nearly seven million Instagram followers, but in the magazine’s hiring a full-time archivist to help log \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s entire photo and video history. Between these archives and the number of San Francisco skate spots replicated in skateparks worldwide, “San Francisco has had such an outsized influence on skateboarding,” Vitello says, “and therefore everything connected to our culture.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1118px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg\" alt=\"Young boys sit on their skateboards amidst a concrete and brick plaza\" width=\"1118\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg 1118w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Kevin Thatcher; courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betsy Gordon, Project Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, struck up a friendship with Barrow at the academic skate conference Pushing Boarders, where they both presented. She attests to his style of teaching: “I appreciate the fact that he has advanced skills and is very well-educated,” she says, “but never makes you feel stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow recently contributed to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianstore.com/four-wheels-and-a-board-11042/\">Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, co-edited by Gordon. She looped in Barrow to write and contribute several pieces, including an introductory chapter to the 1990s section. “Not everybody can have that historian’s eye of seeing that context and say, ‘Oh, that trick for the ‘90s was really progressive’ with a sense of what was possible,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, a skateboarder’s relationship with space evolves over time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding is aging,” Gordon explains. “It was always very future-focused; now there’s more appreciation for history and what came before.” This ongoing relationship with space grounds Barrow’s deep historical knowledge into the present, making his onsite testimonies resonate that much deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vitello places that impact, and the project’s, into his everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you just forget to look up,” he explains. “I’ve found myself, even in a city I grew up in, looking up and looking at things a bit different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘This Old Ledge’ is on \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/\">Thrasher magazine’s website\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ThrasherMag/videos\">YouTube channel\u003c/a> now. New episodes drop each Wednesday. Ted Barrow also runs a Patreon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/beratethebirds\">Berate the Birds\u003c/a>, centered around art history and skateboarding. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Everybody knows that baseball — the dominant sport in America for two-thirds of the 20th century — excluded Black players from its major leagues for decades, from the turn of the century until Jackie Robinson broke through in 1947. In most tellings, Negro League stars like Buck O’Neill, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige are tragic figures: They were robbed of the opportunity to compete against Joe DiMaggio, et al, and to join the firmament of household names on the sports pages, in the record books and at Cooperstown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parallel history of baseball from a Black point of view, Sam Pollard’s fleet-footed, feature-length \u003cem>The League\u003c/em> offers a perspective that acknowledges segregation and racism — yet is closer to a house party than a lament. Meshing the recollections of numerous players and Negro League umpire Bob Motley (who died in 2017), a wealth of splendid vintage footage and interviews with young Black historians, it’s a solid double in the gap that fans of the game will enjoy even more than devotees of American social history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2.png\" alt=\"in a black and white photo an umpire leaps up into the air in the middle of the field calling a play\" width=\"604\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2.png 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2-160x127.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Umpire Bob Motley in the air, in a still from ‘The League.’ \u003ccite>(Byron Motley, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The League\u003c/em> is not as kinetic and enthralling as the prolific Pollard’s recent \u003cem>Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (2017)\u003c/em> or last year’s \u003cem>Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power\u003c/em>. But that likely comes down to the episodic, pass-the-baton nature of the Negro Leagues’ evolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the leadoff spot is Andrew “Rube” Foster, a crafty Black pitcher whom New York Giants manager John McGraw reportedly hired to secretly teach future Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson the fadeaway (a.k.a. screwball). Foster became an innovative manager and owner of the Chicago American Giants, where he pioneered an aggressive style of play built on speed, base-running and squeeze bunts (in contrast to the Major Leagues’ love affair with Babe Ruth’s home run jogs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s biggest contribution, though, was persuading fellow Midwest team owners to form the Negro National League in 1920. Another group formed the Eastern Colored League in 1923, and the winners of the two leagues met in the first “colored” World Series the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-800x323.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a Negro League baseball team\" width=\"800\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-800x323.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-1020x411.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-768x310.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-1536x619.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-2048x826.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-1920x774.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rube Foster (center), managing the 1916 Chicago American Giants. \u003ccite>(Hake's Auction, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organized Black baseball created rivalries and birthed stars. Off the field, the effects were even more significant: Black communities proudly embraced their teams to such a degree that churches moved their Sunday services up an hour in deference to highly anticipated games. Meanwhile, the teams hired hundreds of ticket-takers, vendors and ushers, fueling the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster was disabled by gas poisoning in a hotel accident. His 1930 death, combined with the Great Depression, doomed the Negro National League. Pittsburgh Crawfords owner Gus Greenlee launched the second iteration in 1933, the same year he signed the likable catcher Joshua Gibson.[aside postid='arts_13875504']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburgh, which was on the main train line connecting East Coast cities as well as points west, was able to support another terrific Black team: The Homestead Grays, who signed away Gibson after four seasons with the Crawfords. (A career .365 hitter, Gibson’s mental health issues and premature death robbed him of a shot at the Major Leagues.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one would expect, \u003cem>The League\u003c/em> weaves important Black social movements into the narrative. The great migration of Southern Black Americans to northern cities after World War I was key to the success of the Negro National Leagues. During World War II, the \u003cem>Pittsburgh Courier\u003c/em> spearheaded the Double Victory campaign, which highlighted the contributions and bravery of Black soldiers fighting to free people overseas and lobbied for expanded freedoms at home — less discrimination and segregation — for Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Pollard, director of ‘The League.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Batting cleanup in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em> is executive Effa Manley. She made her first mark leading a 1934 boycott of a Harlem department store until it hired Black salesgirls, and became co-owner of the Newark Eagles upon marrying its owner, Abe Manley, the following year. Effa excelled at managing the club’s business operations and advocating for all Negro League players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you harbor the notion that Branch Rickey is a hero for integrating Major League Baseball when he signed Jackie Robinson from the Kansas City Monarchs for his Brooklyn Dodgers, listen to Effa Manley. She was outspoken about Rickey’s crass failure to pay the team that developed him. (In contrast, Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck paid Manley a small sum for Larry Doby, who was the first Black player in the American League.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley is perhaps the most fascinating figure in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em>. She is among the roughly three dozen Negro League greats inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1971, and is still the only woman in the Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-800x635.png\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a Negro League baseball team\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-800x635.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-160x127.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-768x610.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1942 AA Marines in a still from ‘The League. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area baseball fans will encounter surprisingly few local connections in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Everybody knows that baseball — the dominant sport in America for two-thirds of the 20th century — excluded Black players from its major leagues for decades, from the turn of the century until Jackie Robinson broke through in 1947. In most tellings, Negro League stars like Buck O’Neill, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige are tragic figures: They were robbed of the opportunity to compete against Joe DiMaggio, et al, and to join the firmament of household names on the sports pages, in the record books and at Cooperstown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parallel history of baseball from a Black point of view, Sam Pollard’s fleet-footed, feature-length \u003cem>The League\u003c/em> offers a perspective that acknowledges segregation and racism — yet is closer to a house party than a lament. Meshing the recollections of numerous players and Negro League umpire Bob Motley (who died in 2017), a wealth of splendid vintage footage and interviews with young Black historians, it’s a solid double in the gap that fans of the game will enjoy even more than devotees of American social history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2.png\" alt=\"in a black and white photo an umpire leaps up into the air in the middle of the field calling a play\" width=\"604\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2.png 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/2-160x127.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Umpire Bob Motley in the air, in a still from ‘The League.’ \u003ccite>(Byron Motley, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The League\u003c/em> is not as kinetic and enthralling as the prolific Pollard’s recent \u003cem>Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (2017)\u003c/em> or last year’s \u003cem>Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power\u003c/em>. But that likely comes down to the episodic, pass-the-baton nature of the Negro Leagues’ evolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the leadoff spot is Andrew “Rube” Foster, a crafty Black pitcher whom New York Giants manager John McGraw reportedly hired to secretly teach future Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson the fadeaway (a.k.a. screwball). Foster became an innovative manager and owner of the Chicago American Giants, where he pioneered an aggressive style of play built on speed, base-running and squeeze bunts (in contrast to the Major Leagues’ love affair with Babe Ruth’s home run jogs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s biggest contribution, though, was persuading fellow Midwest team owners to form the Negro National League in 1920. Another group formed the Eastern Colored League in 1923, and the winners of the two leagues met in the first “colored” World Series the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-800x323.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a Negro League baseball team\" width=\"800\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-800x323.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-1020x411.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-768x310.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-1536x619.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-2048x826.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/3-1920x774.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rube Foster (center), managing the 1916 Chicago American Giants. \u003ccite>(Hake's Auction, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organized Black baseball created rivalries and birthed stars. Off the field, the effects were even more significant: Black communities proudly embraced their teams to such a degree that churches moved their Sunday services up an hour in deference to highly anticipated games. Meanwhile, the teams hired hundreds of ticket-takers, vendors and ushers, fueling the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster was disabled by gas poisoning in a hotel accident. His 1930 death, combined with the Great Depression, doomed the Negro National League. Pittsburgh Crawfords owner Gus Greenlee launched the second iteration in 1933, the same year he signed the likable catcher Joshua Gibson.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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During World War II, the \u003cem>Pittsburgh Courier\u003c/em> spearheaded the Double Victory campaign, which highlighted the contributions and bravery of Black soldiers fighting to free people overseas and lobbied for expanded freedoms at home — less discrimination and segregation — for Black Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/6.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Pollard, director of ‘The League.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Batting cleanup in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em> is executive Effa Manley. She made her first mark leading a 1934 boycott of a Harlem department store until it hired Black salesgirls, and became co-owner of the Newark Eagles upon marrying its owner, Abe Manley, the following year. Effa excelled at managing the club’s business operations and advocating for all Negro League players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you harbor the notion that Branch Rickey is a hero for integrating Major League Baseball when he signed Jackie Robinson from the Kansas City Monarchs for his Brooklyn Dodgers, listen to Effa Manley. She was outspoken about Rickey’s crass failure to pay the team that developed him. (In contrast, Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck paid Manley a small sum for Larry Doby, who was the first Black player in the American League.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley is perhaps the most fascinating figure in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em>. She is among the roughly three dozen Negro League greats inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1971, and is still the only woman in the Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-800x635.png\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a Negro League baseball team\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-800x635.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-160x127.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1-768x610.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/5-1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1942 AA Marines in a still from ‘The League. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area baseball fans will encounter surprisingly few local connections in \u003cem>The League\u003c/em>. Willie Mays played 13 games in 1948 for the Negro League’s Birmingham Black Barons — when he was 17 — and he makes a cameo appearance via a couple-decades-old videotaped interview and his unforgettable catch of Vic Wertz’s blast to deep centerfield in the opening game of the 1954 World Series. The Negro League will take a turn in the spotlight at the Black Barons’ ballpark, Rickwood Field, on June 20, 2024, when the Giants and Cardinals play a nationally televised regular season game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While neither the filmmaker nor his cohort of learned interviewees express any regrets about the integration of Major League Baseball, it obviously led to the demise of the Negro Baseball League. Black fans preferred to see Robinson, or Doby, or Paige, or Monte Irvin, or Roy Campanella playing against and alongside white players rather than all-Black teams in all-Black leagues. 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Our own dogs… other people’s dogs… all of those dogs at the same time…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you, like Safran Foer, feel better when there are canines around, you’re going to want to attend at least some of the following dog-centric events in the Bay Area this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A collie wearing a conical party hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get ready to paaaawtaaaaay. \u003ccite>(Iuliia Zavalishina, iStock/ Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bark-at-spark-summer-paw-ty-tickets-632984332177?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Bark at SPARK Summer Paw-ty\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 21\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Spark Social, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fundraiser for \u003ca href=\"https://ilovefamilydog.org/\">Family Dog Rescue\u003c/a> is guaranteed to make you as happy as you make your pups. There will be 20 food trucks, 12 local pet-minded businesses, pet portraits, dog training tips, a groomer, a doggy playpen and goodie bags for everyone. Oh, and if you’re reading this list even though you don’t have a dog of your own, the Summer Paw-ty is most definitely for you — there will be adoptable pooches hanging out just waiting to win you over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A white dog with scruffy fur licks the side of a beer glass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dogs. Beer. What’s not to like? \u003ccite>(\tGetty Images/ Javier Zayas Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyhumane.org/events/pints-for-paws/\">Pints For Paws\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 3\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Berkeley Humane, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attending a beer-tasting that is also an auction might not sound like the smartest move in the world, but impulse bidding is perfectly acceptable when the proceeds are going to the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyhumane.org/\">Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society\u003c/a>. There will also be food trucks on hand if you need a bite to soak up all those local craft beers, wines and small-batch vodkas before the bidding starts. Expect live music, games and — of course — all of the dogs. Many, many, many dogs. And what could be better than that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Three women stand on one foot, one arm stretched in the air while holding small dogs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-2048x1461.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-1920x1369.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dog yoga (doga!) in action. \u003ccite>(K. Y. Cheng/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pupplaza.org/events\">Doga at Pup Plaza\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 4, July 9\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pup Plaza, San Jose\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoga: A stress-reliever and life improver. Dogs: Same! What happens when you combine the two? Only the very best things. This 60-minute class is designed to help you deepen the bond with your dog, and leave happier and more relaxed than when you arrived. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pupplaza.org/\">Pup Plaza\u003c/a> is part of Silicon Valley Pet Project — the first dog community center in the area and a place that only wants the best for your fur babies. Something to ponder when you’re in Downward-Facing Dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A black long-haired Chihuahua tilts her head and looks up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cutest Chihuahua in the whole damn world. \u003ccite>(Shannon Finney/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/chihuahuas/\">South Bay Chihuahua & Small Dog Meetup\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 10, July 8, Aug. 12\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Milpitas Dog Park, Milpitas\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chihuahuas: Let’s face it, they’re the Donald Trump of dogs. You’re either a passionate hater or an enthusiast so fervent, you’ll get into a fight with a total stranger in the street over it. If you fall into the latter category, you should probably head to Milpitas Dog Park once a month this summer to meet up with other fellows just like you. There, your tiny, shaking babies can wag, sniff and prance around with each other while you join a crew of likeminded lovers of the microdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a San Francisco Giants jersey and hat bends down to pet a husky dog, also wearing a Giants shirt. Crowds of people stand to one side, observing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pre-game dog parade at Oracle Park during Dog Day, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephen Hopson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/giants/tickets/specials/dog-day\">Dog Days of Summer (With the SF Giants)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 11\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oracle Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one day and one day only, Oracle Park turns into a glorious — and fairly surreal — dog costume party. The annual Dog Days of Summer event invites Giants fans onto the warning track to parade with their pups before the game, awarding prizes to the best baseball-themed doggy outfits. Be warned that Dog Days tickets are more expensive than the average game, but try to take comfort in the fact that the experience is pretty priceless. Plus, partial proceeds benefit the very lovely people and animals of the San Francisco SPCA. This year’s Dog Days game is against the Chicago Cubs. Feel free to pretend their logo is a Newfoundland for the day…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A french bulldog wearing a night-shirt sits on a chair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A French bulldog. Being awesome. As usual. \u003ccite>(MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/mill-valley-pug-sunday/\">Pug and Frenchie Sunday\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 18, July 16, Aug. 20\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Dog Park, Bayfront Park, Mill Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you have a dog that snores louder than your grandpa in an armchair after a big meal? Then you probably have a pug or a French bulldog. Which means you probably can’t get enough of their tiny flat faces and beefy little bods. Well, get ready to start singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlLNSWAXpo\">Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)\u003c/a>” from \u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em> because every month, a group of pugs and Frenchies get together in Milpitas to grunt and hop around together. Presumably, the humans by their sides can do the same thing, should the mood take them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds up a small, mostly bald dog while raising her other arm triumphantly. A man and a woman stand nearby smiling and clapping.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-1020x750.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-768x565.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinese Crested named Miss Ellie winning the pedigree division of the Ugliest Dog Contest 2009, at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-WUD-Application-Packet.pdf\">World’s Ugliest Dog Contest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 23\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds and Event Center, Petaluma\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, yes. We know. All dogs are beautiful, yada, yada, yada. Just try and think of this as an event that embraces freak flags flying and dog tongues flopping. There are several categories for pooches to enter in addition to “Ugliest Dog,” including “People’s Choice” and “Spirit Award,” and the grand prize-winning weirdo will take home $1,500. Get ready for bug eyes, bald bodies, bizarre teeth and \u003cem>tons\u003c/em> of personality. Be advised though, pawrents, that your entry form needs to be in before June 21 if you want your little darling to be in the running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"A small scruffy dog wearing a life preserver stands on a surf board in the water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-768x492.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes. There are, in fact, enough dogs that know how to surf that it warrants a competition. \u003ccite>(Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.surfdogchampionships.com/\">World Dog Surfing Championship\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 5\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Linda Mar Beach, Pacifica\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floofers doing human things is a winner always, but the World Dog Surfing Championship goes next-level: these puppers are doing stuff that a lot of people can’t even do! The surfing dogs are evaluated by judges on confidence level, ability to stay on their surfboard and — this isn’t a joke — tricks. Yes, actual tricks. Like surfing backwards or doing 360-degree spins mid-wave. And, as if that wasn’t enough, they’re doing all this surfing while wearing cute little wetsuits and goggles. Absurdly cute entertainment guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/summerguide2023\">2023 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/opinion/27foer.html\">2006 op-ed for the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, novelist \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Safran_Foer\">Jonathan Safran Foer\u003c/a> pondered: “Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? And why does it make one feel, in the best sense of the word, human?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer to those questions is this: Who cares, man! Let’s just agree that dogs are the greatest and take every opportunity to hang out with them. Our own dogs… other people’s dogs… all of those dogs at the same time…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you, like Safran Foer, feel better when there are canines around, you’re going to want to attend at least some of the following dog-centric events in the Bay Area this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A collie wearing a conical party hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1392000081-scaled-e1683849520487.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get ready to paaaawtaaaaay. \u003ccite>(Iuliia Zavalishina, iStock/ Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bark-at-spark-summer-paw-ty-tickets-632984332177?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Bark at SPARK Summer Paw-ty\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 21\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Spark Social, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fundraiser for \u003ca href=\"https://ilovefamilydog.org/\">Family Dog Rescue\u003c/a> is guaranteed to make you as happy as you make your pups. There will be 20 food trucks, 12 local pet-minded businesses, pet portraits, dog training tips, a groomer, a doggy playpen and goodie bags for everyone. Oh, and if you’re reading this list even though you don’t have a dog of your own, the Summer Paw-ty is most definitely for you — there will be adoptable pooches hanging out just waiting to win you over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A white dog with scruffy fur licks the side of a beer glass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1210146717-scaled-e1682636289583.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dogs. Beer. What’s not to like? \u003ccite>(\tGetty Images/ Javier Zayas Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyhumane.org/events/pints-for-paws/\">Pints For Paws\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 3\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Berkeley Humane, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attending a beer-tasting that is also an auction might not sound like the smartest move in the world, but impulse bidding is perfectly acceptable when the proceeds are going to the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyhumane.org/\">Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society\u003c/a>. There will also be food trucks on hand if you need a bite to soak up all those local craft beers, wines and small-batch vodkas before the bidding starts. Expect live music, games and — of course — all of the dogs. Many, many, many dogs. And what could be better than that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Three women stand on one foot, one arm stretched in the air while holding small dogs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-2048x1461.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1125216299-1920x1369.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dog yoga (doga!) in action. \u003ccite>(K. Y. Cheng/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pupplaza.org/events\">Doga at Pup Plaza\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 4, July 9\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pup Plaza, San Jose\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoga: A stress-reliever and life improver. Dogs: Same! What happens when you combine the two? Only the very best things. This 60-minute class is designed to help you deepen the bond with your dog, and leave happier and more relaxed than when you arrived. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pupplaza.org/\">Pup Plaza\u003c/a> is part of Silicon Valley Pet Project — the first dog community center in the area and a place that only wants the best for your fur babies. Something to ponder when you’re in Downward-Facing Dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A black long-haired Chihuahua tilts her head and looks up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1488437182-scaled-e1683849225956.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cutest Chihuahua in the whole damn world. \u003ccite>(Shannon Finney/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/chihuahuas/\">South Bay Chihuahua & Small Dog Meetup\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 10, July 8, Aug. 12\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Milpitas Dog Park, Milpitas\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chihuahuas: Let’s face it, they’re the Donald Trump of dogs. You’re either a passionate hater or an enthusiast so fervent, you’ll get into a fight with a total stranger in the street over it. If you fall into the latter category, you should probably head to Milpitas Dog Park once a month this summer to meet up with other fellows just like you. There, your tiny, shaking babies can wag, sniff and prance around with each other while you join a crew of likeminded lovers of the microdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a San Francisco Giants jersey and hat bends down to pet a husky dog, also wearing a Giants shirt. Crowds of people stand to one side, observing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1154512100-scaled-e1682632486754.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pre-game dog parade at Oracle Park during Dog Day, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephen Hopson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/giants/tickets/specials/dog-day\">Dog Days of Summer (With the SF Giants)\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 11\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Oracle Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one day and one day only, Oracle Park turns into a glorious — and fairly surreal — dog costume party. The annual Dog Days of Summer event invites Giants fans onto the warning track to parade with their pups before the game, awarding prizes to the best baseball-themed doggy outfits. Be warned that Dog Days tickets are more expensive than the average game, but try to take comfort in the fact that the experience is pretty priceless. Plus, partial proceeds benefit the very lovely people and animals of the San Francisco SPCA. This year’s Dog Days game is against the Chicago Cubs. Feel free to pretend their logo is a Newfoundland for the day…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A french bulldog wearing a night-shirt sits on a chair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1243036505-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A French bulldog. Being awesome. As usual. \u003ccite>(MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/mill-valley-pug-sunday/\">Pug and Frenchie Sunday\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 18, July 16, Aug. 20\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Dog Park, Bayfront Park, Mill Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you have a dog that snores louder than your grandpa in an armchair after a big meal? Then you probably have a pug or a French bulldog. Which means you probably can’t get enough of their tiny flat faces and beefy little bods. Well, get ready to start singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlLNSWAXpo\">Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us)\u003c/a>” from \u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em> because every month, a group of pugs and Frenchies get together in Milpitas to grunt and hop around together. Presumably, the humans by their sides can do the same thing, should the mood take them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds up a small, mostly bald dog while raising her other arm triumphantly. A man and a woman stand nearby smiling and clapping.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-1020x750.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-768x565.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-88710759-scaled-e1682635512987.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinese Crested named Miss Ellie winning the pedigree division of the Ugliest Dog Contest 2009, at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-WUD-Application-Packet.pdf\">World’s Ugliest Dog Contest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 23\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds and Event Center, Petaluma\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, yes. We know. All dogs are beautiful, yada, yada, yada. Just try and think of this as an event that embraces freak flags flying and dog tongues flopping. There are several categories for pooches to enter in addition to “Ugliest Dog,” including “People’s Choice” and “Spirit Award,” and the grand prize-winning weirdo will take home $1,500. Get ready for bug eyes, bald bodies, bizarre teeth and \u003cem>tons\u003c/em> of personality. Be advised though, pawrents, that your entry form needs to be in before June 21 if you want your little darling to be in the running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"A small scruffy dog wearing a life preserver stands on a surf board in the water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-768x492.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1235587049.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes. There are, in fact, enough dogs that know how to surf that it warrants a competition. \u003ccite>(Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.surfdogchampionships.com/\">World Dog Surfing Championship\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 5\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Linda Mar Beach, Pacifica\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928761 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man in a flannel shirt and an older man, his father, in a blue button up shirt, with their arms around each other, smiling for the camera at a basketball game\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father, John, at a Warriors game. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ome of my clearest memories from childhood take place around basketball courts. While I never really played beyond the school yard with friends, my dad did. There was a rec league at his work, and my dad had games every week, it seemed. These games often happened to be on the Tuesdays or every-other-weekends that my brother and I spent with him starting around when I was seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chemical engineer by trade and standing 6’2”, my dad wasn’t an amazing athlete, but he would work his ass off out there. He’d make the occasional shot, but he was an absolute pest on defense. He always took us home straight after the final whistle blew, and the scent of his sweat would take over every cubic inch of airspace in his big brown Buick. It smelled aggressively sweet, somehow, and he never stank, aside from his shoes — the original Nike Air Jordans from 1985. One year he hurt his leg on the court but kept playing for the rest of the game. He only realized that he’d broken it the next day when it swelled up like a balloon, and I believe that was the end of his intramural career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo shows a high school basketball team from the 1960s\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-768x561.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s high school basketball team — he’s fourth from the left, No. 5. Chevy Chase, MD, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dad was always looking for cheap things he could do with us when it was his weekend with the boys. We lived about 20 minutes from the Oakland Coliseum, so that meant a lot of bleacher and upper-deck seats for A’s games. But once a year or so we’d get to go see the Warriors as a special treat. This was back during the Run TMC days, when they were so good, yet somehow only ever won a single playoff series. We blamed Don Nelson, who we agreed was a great coach, but somehow also very bad at coaching. I remember seeing Manute Bol taking impossibly long strides down the court, still the tallest human I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. Then our hopes fell to Latrell Sprewell and then Chris Webber to be the team’s savior, but it never panned out. We would still go every year, if only as a pretext for hitting Flint’s BBQ before the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rosy as that all sounds, the truth was my dad and I didn’t get along very well. He and I fought bitterly and frequently. By the time I was a junior in high school, I’d stopped going to his house at all, and we didn’t go to games anymore, either. While we’d still see each other, it was better when we kept our distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time has a way of mellowing people, though. We started actively — if casually — working on repairing our relationship when I was in my 20s and living in New York. Then, in 2007, he called me to tell me that he had prostate cancer, and I realized that I needed to try to let go of whatever grudges I still harbored and do my best to enjoy however much time I was going to get with him. He was 60 years old and stage 4, but he assured me that there were a lot of treatment options available, and he was going to do everything he could to stick around for a long time. And he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"a group of four men, two younger, two older, pose behind a sign that reads 'Bright angel trailhead' \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author, his father, his brother Matt, and his dad’s best friend Butch after they climbed out of the Grand Canyon for a camping trip to celebrate John’s 70th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved back to California in 2013, and though I lived in LA, visiting the Bay was a whole lot easier. At the same time, my dad started showing interest in the NBA again. “We should go see a Warriors game again next time you’re in town,” he said one day. “They’ve got these three young guys named Steph, Klay, and Draymond, and they’re just amazing!” I think I just harumphed. I hadn’t paid attention to the NBA in years, and I think I flashed back to the close-but-not-quite trio from my youth. I’d been hurt before. But I was still looking for ways to reconnect with my dad, so I said sure. We started going once a year again, and obviously it turned out to be a pretty good era to reemerge from a 20-year basketball coma as a Warriors fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a stretch to say that the Warriors brought us closer together over the next decade. We’d watch games on TV together whenever I was in town. We’d even pick which nights I’d come over based on whether a game would be on. When I was away, if one of us texted the other, “You watching?” we both knew exactly what that meant. If we were both tuned in, we’d text back and forth, or sometimes after the game. “Curry got 51 tonight — did you see it?” (Feb. 25, 2016), or “Klay got something like 51 in 26 minutes (including 14 threes)” (Oct. 29, 2018). Even when we weren’t together, watching those games and talking about them made us feel closer. I got sucked back into NBA fandom, and my bond with my dad was stronger than it had ever been.[aside postid='arts_13922115']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y dad was lucky that his treatments were generally mild, and he experienced virtually no symptoms for most of his time living with cancer. That streak lasted for the better part of a whopping 13 years. Things took a turn, though, right around when COVID hit. It had spread throughout his lymphatic system, and it was in his spine, all of which caused him incredible pain in his back and legs. His treatments got more aggressive, his side effects got wildly more unpleasant, and he got less and less benefit from each subsequent treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2022, he told the family that he was done fighting and would be entering home hospice, receiving palliative care, but no more treatment. I asked him if he was sure he was ready to throw in the towel. “The wheels are coming off, Brent,” he told me. “This body is used up, and it’s just no fun being in it anymore.” How can you argue with that? A couple weeks later he announced that on April 18, he would be making his big exit. California recently became a Death with Dignity / Right-to-Die state, and my brother and my dad’s siblings could all be there the weekend leading up to that Monday. As hard as it was, none of us tried to talk him out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was fortunate that I had booked a TV gig shooting in San Jose that started that January. Since retiring, my dad lived just over the mountains in Santa Cruz, which meant I got to visit him pretty much every week. After their two injury-riddled seasons, the Warriors were finally good again, and we watched any weekend games they played — along with his new wife, who was now hooked on the Dubs, too. Dad was over the moon to see Klay Thompson come back, his wife’s favorite was the promising rookie Jonathan Kuminga, and we all marveled any time Curry was on one. Pops was less mobile by this point, but he could put his feet up, pop an edible, and still enjoy the game, sometimes while donning his inflatable lymphedema compression pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"an older woman and man with grey hair smiling at a dinner table. she wears an orange hoodie over a striped black and white shirt and he wears a blue and yellow warriors jersey\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-768x540.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1536x1081.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John — wearing the jersey he would later give his son, claiming it was new — and his wife Teren in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last thing we ever watched together was Game 1 of the Warriors’ first playoff series against the Nuggets on April 16. The Warriors won 123 to 107, but my dad had fallen asleep by halftime, and though he had DVR’d it, we never got around to watching the ending. He used every last bit of his energy that weekend spending time with his family, tying up loose ends, and, ever the goofball, wearing gigantic, fuzzy bunny ears on Easter. While going through some boxes in his garage, I found that pair of original Jordans he used to play in. I was amazed that he’d had the good sense to keep them. He said I should have them, and my brother and stepmom agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">On the morning of Monday, April 18, the whole family showed up wearing Hawaiian shirts, as he had requested. He didn’t want his death to be a somber affair. The prior Christmas he had gifted me a Steph Curry jersey, making a point of telling me it was brand-new, which I thought was a bit odd. I’ve never been the jersey-wearing type, as I always kind of thought of it as “big boy cosplay for bros,” but for the occasion I wore the jersey with the Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned so he could see it. I would later find out that it was actually his jersey, which he was sneakily regifting to me, but that just made it more special to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had decided a month in advance that he would take the life-ending medication at 10 a.m., and that, before then, each of his family members would go into his bedroom to have two or three minutes of one-on-one time with him. I was the second-to-last to go in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey! You’re wearing that jersey!” he exclaimed when I came in and sat on the bed next to him. “It looks good on you! Boy, Curry is just amazing. I don’t think there will ever be a better shooter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, he’s great, Dad…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should check my dresser, though, because I used to have a Kobe jersey, too. Did you ever watch him? Man, 81 points in a game! I’ve never seen anything like it! He could score from anywhere…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point I had to interrupt to remind him that these were my last two minutes with him ever, so maybe we should talk about something other than basketball. “Oh yeah, okay, good point, good point,” he said, but he added that if he could, he would try to help the Warriors in their postseason run from the other side. He also thought it would be a good time to take one last selfie together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 561px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\" alt=\"a young man in a blue and yellow warriors jersey next to an older man with grey hair in a white coat, both smiling for the camera.\" width=\"561\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg 561w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y dad’s death was about as sweet and as perfect as any of us could hope for. More importantly, it went just the way he’d hoped. While that helps soften the blow a little, it was still an emotional A-bomb. My dad lived with stage 4 cancer for an incredible 15 years, finally giving up the ghost at the age of 75 (like his father, and his father before him). When I sent out the email to all his friends and relatives, he instructed me to use the subject line, “John has left the building!” He was a funny guy to the very end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve never been religious or prone to magical thinking, but something happens when, minutes before your dad dies, he effectively says, “I’ll try to help the Warriors from the spirit realm.” Even if you don’t really believe it, you’re hoping for some sign or confirmation that your loved one is still out there, existing in one form or another. It wasn’t subtle for me. Starting with Game 2 of the series, the evening after he died, I found myself looking for meaning in every clutch three, like, “Was that you, Dad?” The Warriors won that game by 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I probably don’t have to tell you that the Warriors won the 21/22 Championship. Watching Game 6 in a hotel room in San Diego and wearing the Curry jersey, as a win looked inevitable in late the fourth quarter, I felt like I was losing my mind. The Warriors had been considered underdogs that season. After that final conversation with my dad, it was just too poetic, too storybook-ending to be real. When the final horn blew, I cheered and cried like I never had before while watching any game in any sport in my life. It felt like the closing of a chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"a pair of vintage red, white and black Nike Air Jordans\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s original Air Jordan 1 sneakers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad’s well-used Air Jordan 1s now sit in a case on my bookshelf. To this day, I still watch almost every Warriors game, and now my stepmom and I text about it, like me and my dad did. It’s been the weirdest season for the Dubs — maybe my dad had better things to do in the afterlife than try to shepherd them along to another title. But as the one-year anniversary of his passing arrived, and as the Warriors continue in the playoffs again, watching them has continued to be a great comfort. I still miss him a lot, and I imagine I will for the rest of my life. But when a game is on, I can still hear him hooting and hollering. Remembering his almost cartoonish “Yahoooo!”makes him feel not quite so far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still watching, Dad. I wonder if you are, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brent Rose is a journalist, actor and filmmaker\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Find him online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.brentrose.com\">brentrose.com\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13928761 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man in a flannel shirt and an older man, his father, in a blue button up shirt, with their arms around each other, smiling for the camera at a basketball game\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.WarriorsGame.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father, John, at a Warriors game. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ome of my clearest memories from childhood take place around basketball courts. While I never really played beyond the school yard with friends, my dad did. There was a rec league at his work, and my dad had games every week, it seemed. These games often happened to be on the Tuesdays or every-other-weekends that my brother and I spent with him starting around when I was seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chemical engineer by trade and standing 6’2”, my dad wasn’t an amazing athlete, but he would work his ass off out there. He’d make the occasional shot, but he was an absolute pest on defense. He always took us home straight after the final whistle blew, and the scent of his sweat would take over every cubic inch of airspace in his big brown Buick. It smelled aggressively sweet, somehow, and he never stank, aside from his shoes — the original Nike Air Jordans from 1985. One year he hurt his leg on the court but kept playing for the rest of the game. He only realized that he’d broken it the next day when it swelled up like a balloon, and I believe that was the end of his intramural career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo shows a high school basketball team from the 1960s\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1020x745.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-768x561.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.hs_.team_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s high school basketball team — he’s fourth from the left, No. 5. Chevy Chase, MD, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dad was always looking for cheap things he could do with us when it was his weekend with the boys. We lived about 20 minutes from the Oakland Coliseum, so that meant a lot of bleacher and upper-deck seats for A’s games. But once a year or so we’d get to go see the Warriors as a special treat. This was back during the Run TMC days, when they were so good, yet somehow only ever won a single playoff series. We blamed Don Nelson, who we agreed was a great coach, but somehow also very bad at coaching. I remember seeing Manute Bol taking impossibly long strides down the court, still the tallest human I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. Then our hopes fell to Latrell Sprewell and then Chris Webber to be the team’s savior, but it never panned out. We would still go every year, if only as a pretext for hitting Flint’s BBQ before the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rosy as that all sounds, the truth was my dad and I didn’t get along very well. He and I fought bitterly and frequently. By the time I was a junior in high school, I’d stopped going to his house at all, and we didn’t go to games anymore, either. While we’d still see each other, it was better when we kept our distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time has a way of mellowing people, though. We started actively — if casually — working on repairing our relationship when I was in my 20s and living in New York. Then, in 2007, he called me to tell me that he had prostate cancer, and I realized that I needed to try to let go of whatever grudges I still harbored and do my best to enjoy however much time I was going to get with him. He was 60 years old and stage 4, but he assured me that there were a lot of treatment options available, and he was going to do everything he could to stick around for a long time. And he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"a group of four men, two younger, two older, pose behind a sign that reads 'Bright angel trailhead' \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.trail_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author, his father, his brother Matt, and his dad’s best friend Butch after they climbed out of the Grand Canyon for a camping trip to celebrate John’s 70th birthday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved back to California in 2013, and though I lived in LA, visiting the Bay was a whole lot easier. At the same time, my dad started showing interest in the NBA again. “We should go see a Warriors game again next time you’re in town,” he said one day. “They’ve got these three young guys named Steph, Klay, and Draymond, and they’re just amazing!” I think I just harumphed. I hadn’t paid attention to the NBA in years, and I think I flashed back to the close-but-not-quite trio from my youth. I’d been hurt before. But I was still looking for ways to reconnect with my dad, so I said sure. We started going once a year again, and obviously it turned out to be a pretty good era to reemerge from a 20-year basketball coma as a Warriors fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a stretch to say that the Warriors brought us closer together over the next decade. We’d watch games on TV together whenever I was in town. We’d even pick which nights I’d come over based on whether a game would be on. When I was away, if one of us texted the other, “You watching?” we both knew exactly what that meant. If we were both tuned in, we’d text back and forth, or sometimes after the game. “Curry got 51 tonight — did you see it?” (Feb. 25, 2016), or “Klay got something like 51 in 26 minutes (including 14 threes)” (Oct. 29, 2018). Even when we weren’t together, watching those games and talking about them made us feel closer. I got sucked back into NBA fandom, and my bond with my dad was stronger than it had ever been.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I asked him if he was sure he was ready to throw in the towel. “The wheels are coming off, Brent,” he told me. “This body is used up, and it’s just no fun being in it anymore.” How can you argue with that? A couple weeks later he announced that on April 18, he would be making his big exit. California recently became a Death with Dignity / Right-to-Die state, and my brother and my dad’s siblings could all be there the weekend leading up to that Monday. As hard as it was, none of us tried to talk him out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was fortunate that I had booked a TV gig shooting in San Jose that started that January. Since retiring, my dad lived just over the mountains in Santa Cruz, which meant I got to visit him pretty much every week. After their two injury-riddled seasons, the Warriors were finally good again, and we watched any weekend games they played — along with his new wife, who was now hooked on the Dubs, too. Dad was over the moon to see Klay Thompson come back, his wife’s favorite was the promising rookie Jonathan Kuminga, and we all marveled any time Curry was on one. Pops was less mobile by this point, but he could put his feet up, pop an edible, and still enjoy the game, sometimes while donning his inflatable lymphedema compression pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"an older woman and man with grey hair smiling at a dinner table. she wears an orange hoodie over a striped black and white shirt and he wears a blue and yellow warriors jersey\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-768x540.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_-1536x1081.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.teren_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John — wearing the jersey he would later give his son, claiming it was new — and his wife Teren in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last thing we ever watched together was Game 1 of the Warriors’ first playoff series against the Nuggets on April 16. The Warriors won 123 to 107, but my dad had fallen asleep by halftime, and though he had DVR’d it, we never got around to watching the ending. He used every last bit of his energy that weekend spending time with his family, tying up loose ends, and, ever the goofball, wearing gigantic, fuzzy bunny ears on Easter. While going through some boxes in his garage, I found that pair of original Jordans he used to play in. I was amazed that he’d had the good sense to keep them. He said I should have them, and my brother and stepmom agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">On the morning of Monday, April 18, the whole family showed up wearing Hawaiian shirts, as he had requested. He didn’t want his death to be a somber affair. The prior Christmas he had gifted me a Steph Curry jersey, making a point of telling me it was brand-new, which I thought was a bit odd. I’ve never been the jersey-wearing type, as I always kind of thought of it as “big boy cosplay for bros,” but for the occasion I wore the jersey with the Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned so he could see it. I would later find out that it was actually his jersey, which he was sneakily regifting to me, but that just made it more special to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had decided a month in advance that he would take the life-ending medication at 10 a.m., and that, before then, each of his family members would go into his bedroom to have two or three minutes of one-on-one time with him. I was the second-to-last to go in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey! You’re wearing that jersey!” he exclaimed when I came in and sat on the bed next to him. “It looks good on you! Boy, Curry is just amazing. I don’t think there will ever be a better shooter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, he’s great, Dad…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should check my dresser, though, because I used to have a Kobe jersey, too. Did you ever watch him? Man, 81 points in a game! I’ve never seen anything like it! He could score from anywhere…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point I had to interrupt to remind him that these were my last two minutes with him ever, so maybe we should talk about something other than basketball. “Oh yeah, okay, good point, good point,” he said, but he added that if he could, he would try to help the Warriors in their postseason run from the other side. He also thought it would be a good time to take one last selfie together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 561px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13928762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg\" alt=\"a young man in a blue and yellow warriors jersey next to an older man with grey hair in a white coat, both smiling for the camera.\" width=\"561\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie.jpg 561w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/BR.Selfie-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author and his father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y dad’s death was about as sweet and as perfect as any of us could hope for. More importantly, it went just the way he’d hoped. While that helps soften the blow a little, it was still an emotional A-bomb. My dad lived with stage 4 cancer for an incredible 15 years, finally giving up the ghost at the age of 75 (like his father, and his father before him). When I sent out the email to all his friends and relatives, he instructed me to use the subject line, “John has left the building!” He was a funny guy to the very end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve never been religious or prone to magical thinking, but something happens when, minutes before your dad dies, he effectively says, “I’ll try to help the Warriors from the spirit realm.” Even if you don’t really believe it, you’re hoping for some sign or confirmation that your loved one is still out there, existing in one form or another. It wasn’t subtle for me. Starting with Game 2 of the series, the evening after he died, I found myself looking for meaning in every clutch three, like, “Was that you, Dad?” The Warriors won that game by 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I probably don’t have to tell you that the Warriors won the 21/22 Championship. Watching Game 6 in a hotel room in San Diego and wearing the Curry jersey, as a win looked inevitable in late the fourth quarter, I felt like I was losing my mind. The Warriors had been considered underdogs that season. After that final conversation with my dad, it was just too poetic, too storybook-ending to be real. When the final horn blew, I cheered and cried like I never had before while watching any game in any sport in my life. It felt like the closing of a chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"a pair of vintage red, white and black Nike Air Jordans\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/br.jordans.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John’s original Air Jordan 1 sneakers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brent Rose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad’s well-used Air Jordan 1s now sit in a case on my bookshelf. To this day, I still watch almost every Warriors game, and now my stepmom and I text about it, like me and my dad did. It’s been the weirdest season for the Dubs — maybe my dad had better things to do in the afterlife than try to shepherd them along to another title. But as the one-year anniversary of his passing arrived, and as the Warriors continue in the playoffs again, watching them has continued to be a great comfort. I still miss him a lot, and I imagine I will for the rest of my life. But when a game is on, I can still hear him hooting and hollering. Remembering his almost cartoonish “Yahoooo!”makes him feel not quite so far away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still watching, Dad. I wonder if you are, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brent Rose is a journalist, actor and filmmaker\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Find him online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.brentrose.com\">brentrose.com\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">R\u003c/span>ight from the start of Game 1 of a highly anticipated NBA game between my Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings, I immediately noticed something was off. And it had nothing to do with basketball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\">As the son of Mexican immigrants and a lifelong hoop head, I’ve always felt at home among Bay Area sports fans. In particular, Warriors fans reflect California’s cultural pluralisms more than just about any other team in the nation — not only in race but in age, gender, and economic class. So when I flipped on the TV on Saturday evening and saw the monolithic crowd, my instincts churned. There were \u003cem>hella\u003c/em> white people at the game in Sacramento — a city \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2021/11/19/new-figures-show-sacramento-maintains-its-coveted-most-diverse-city-title/\">recently celebrated for being the most diverse in the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, the internet blew up in response to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/incarceratedbob/status/1647723610092568578\">footage of Vallejo-raised rapper Earl “E-40” Stevens being ejected from the game\u003c/a>, after what he alleged to be an incident of “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1647618790900006913\">racial bias\u003c/a>.” I was not as shocked as others may have been. Nor was I surprised when Sacramento fans posted comments like “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Moburner314/status/1647738823667859457\">he claimed racism lol\u003c/a>,” and “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mr_zachparker/status/1647695912557334530\">If he had kept his cool, he probably wouldn’t have gotten kicked out\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, NBA sources are claiming E-40 was removed from the game due to “standing excessively.” A smattering of fans online have also chimed in, stating he should’ve stayed seated during the game. But that’s like kicking Stephen Curry out of a basketball gym for making an excessive amount of three-pointers. What else are you supposed to do at a high-octane sporting event? Sit down, stay seated and politely clap with a bourgeoisie delicacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Kings organization have also issued \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/3953777-rapper-e-40-ejected-from-warriors-kings-game-citing-racial-bias/\">an official statement\u003c/a>, promising to investigate the matter. But if E-40’s account is accurate, and he was unfairly targeted by a white woman in a crowd where he was clearly othered — whether by race, fanship, or other factors — then Sacramento had better get ready for an arena-sized apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/linebackrschool/status/1647434178395541504\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve visited NBA arenas around the nation — from Denver and Oklahoma City to Boston and New Orleans — and I know what it feels like to be away from the comfort of a Bay Area crowd. I’ve sat in sections where not only was I wearing the wrong colors, but where no one around me was visibly Latino. No one ever attacked me directly, in part because I made sure not to attract too much attention. But it’s definitely unsettling to be the sole representative of a different group among a large audience, especially as a person of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never been in that situation, then you probably don’t know how strangely hostile and tense it can feel, and how quickly civil decorum can dissolve into a mobbish clamor against your presence. For most white Americans, it’s simply an environment they’ve rarely experienced, and as a result, whenever a person of color brings it up, it usually gets dismissed as an exaggeration or irrelevant complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13907726']Even worse, if you’ve never been pulled over, physically searched, temporarily detained or threatened to be taken to jail — due to nothing more than your physical traits, the clothes you’re wearing or for looking out of place in a certain environment, something I have personally experienced — then you might not fully grasp the levels of anxiety and anger that ensue when a security guard or enforcement officer approaches. Now put that in the context of Saturday night’s game. Race can never be separated from an outcome in this situation, in this country, in a certain body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident also exposed underlying economic and class disparities in California. When the “We Believe” Warriors made it to the playoffs in 2007, I made sure to drop everything and attend two games. Back then, the Bay Area was only beginning its exorbitant cost of living increases, so a first-generation teenager like me was able to hit up games in East Oakland with my single-parent dad and older brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case. Going to this year’s playoff games at the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento means \u003ca href=\"https://www.basketballnews.com/stories/kingswarriors-breaks-record-for-most-expensive-firstround-tickets\">paying prices that’ve never been seen for a first-round playoff match in the league’s history\u003c/a>. The average cost is $688 per seat; in lower-level seats, where E-40 was sitting, fans typically pay thousands of dollars, effectively making them hyper-exclusionary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where race, as always, is a factor. 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In this scenario, E-40, despite being a hugely successful Black entertainer and entrepreneur, was vastly outnumbered — and then thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1647618790900006913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>-40 has attended countless NBA games for both the Warriors and Kings throughout his years as a superfan, often sitting near the teams’ players — something his business empire’s success allows him to do at this stage in his career. He has regularly appeared on national television during such games, including the NBA Finals. But this is the first time he has been tossed out. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are countless ways to talk about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13914916/stephen-curry-chef-warriors-game-6-nba-finals-2022\">Golden State Warriors megastar, Stephen Wardell Curry\u003c/a>. Champion. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.davidson.edu/news/2022/12/01/home-team-stephen-curry-10-improbable-journey-began-davidson\">Improbable\u003c/a>.” Future Hall of Famer. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/ridiculous-steph-curry-slingshot-pass-resulted-perfect-steve-kerr-reaction\">Absurd\u003c/a>.” Humble. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joxzF51REAE\">So inspirational\u003c/a>.” Father. No singular descriptor can capture \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flm-cZ7r6eE\">the Three-Point God\u003c/a> in all of his matrix-bending dimensionality, but perhaps one word comes close: underrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how can the best shooter in basketball’s history — who boasts one of the sport’s best resumes as a two-time league MVP, four-time NBA champion, eight-time All-NBAer and nine-time All-Star, who has definitively splashed the most three-point field goals of all-time — be undervalued, even underappreciated? It’s a question that Bay Area filmmaker, Peter Nicks, set out to investigate with his latest documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/event/opening-night-stephen-curry-underrated-2/\">\u003ci>Stephen Curry: Underrated\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13926757']Premiering April 13, on the opening night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13926757/2023-sffilm-festival-bay-area-guide\">2023 SFFILM Festival\u003c/a>, the visual biography takes viewers on an intimate ride-along from the early moments of Curry’s high school days to the present — hot off a triumphant 2022 NBA Finals run. The film presents a story of redemption and endurance, sacrifice and celebration, disappointment and euphoria. At its core, it’s the most human depiction you’ll likely ever get of the global phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basketball isn’t at the forefront of this film: a messy, perseverant human life is. There are scenes of Curry doing homework after NBA practice to earn his college degree. There are moments with his three children that teeter between frustration and playfulness. And there are flashbacks — lots of flashbacks — to his years as a scrawny, unknown, often-dismissed teenager who went unrecruited by the nation’s top basketball programs and settled for the only option he had: Davidson College, a small liberal arts school in suburban North Carolina with zero basketball notoriety. It was a program he would drastically transform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his herculean achievements, Curry has remained largely “underrated.” He’s never embodied the desired stature or cocky attitude of a dominant athlete. It’s fitting, then, that Nicks — a Bay Area storyteller who has been documenting Oakland’s institutions for the past decade — would be the perfect person to share Curry’s inspiring story with a national audience. Nicks sat down with KQED to talk about his own journey to becoming a filmmaker and the process of creating \u003ci>Underrated\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13927574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Four men stand smiling in front of Sunday step-and-repeat\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Producer Ryan Coogler, director Peter Nicks, Stephen Curry, and producer Erick Peyton at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Chazaro: How did your sports fandom influence or inform your approach to this film? Did you grow up rooting for the Warriors?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Nicks:\u003c/b> I grew up a hardcore sports fan from Boston. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQUel1Ssq8\">“We Believe” team\u003c/a> was the first time I kinda got shaken out of my complacency and started to pay closer attention [to the Warriors]. The Bay Area in the 2000s was just an incredibly exciting place to be a sports fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t making sports documentaries; I was making films about a community facing challenges — education, criminal justice, healthcare. I noticed that Bay sports arenas were filled with wildly diverse groups of people from all walks of life. I always fantasized making a film about the A’s that celebrated the Bay and the community and how people can come together — like church. Sporting events are a time when people come together for a common purpose. To capture that in film was something I wanted to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>When did the actual recording and interviews happen? What were you most interested in capturing during those moments?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was several months prior to last year’s season. I met with Steph and explained to him my philosophy of storytelling, which involves observation without filming: hanging out and understanding the ecosystem. If it’s an institution, I spend time with doctors, nurses, patients. In this case, it was with Steph and his family. In a way, he has become his own Bay Area institution, a superstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can we make a film about a very well-known athlete that feels unique? Immediately, the first time I met Steph, he got his phone out and started sharing photos and videos from college. He just lit up and you could sense a nostalgia for that moment in his life. You got the sense that this piece of the story hadn’t really been told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steph and the Warriors ended up winning the NBA Finals in 2022, which aligned perfectly with the theme of Steph’s resilience at Davidson. How did that unlikely Warriors championship shape your filmmaking in the moment? Did the plot evolve while shooting? No pun intended.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13820054']It wasn’t a thought. I encouraged people in meetings to keep a gentle eye on the season. Documentaries are wildly unpredictable. For my film about the police department in Oakland [\u003ci>The Force\u003c/i>], we had to re-edit the entire thing in the final hour because an OPD scandal broke out and it became an integral part of the film. With \u003ci>Homeroom \u003c/i>[about Oakland High School], COVID hit and Black Lives Matter went international. You can’t predict those in a documentary, but if you position yourself to allow those unexpected things to happen and you’re prepared to make a shift in the narrative, that’s where the magical moments happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The championship was not integral to our narrative. This documentary is a coming-of-age story about an underrated, undersized player who couldn’t even get the opportunity to play at his parent’s alma mater, [Virginia Tech]. The fact that he went on a run in the NBA Finals and it dovetailed with his failed effort in the 2008 [NCAA] tournament was really poignant. It’s beyond serendipity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What are the challenges of piecing all those years and scenes together to tell a coherent narrative?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you watch the movie, the credit [goes to] JD Marlow, the editor who did a remarkable job, it’s the weaving of three storylines. Maybe four if you count Steph’s relationship with Coach [Bob] McKillop about someone fulfilling their full potential. There’s always a mentor who isn’t a parent in those situations. An uncle, cousin, coach. It makes a difference. In that arc of the Davidson Wildcats, it also tracked the Warriors’ improbable run to a championship and Stephen’s promise to his mom [to complete his college degree].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a very difficult task — to weave them together in a coherent way, with pace and entertainment. JD Marlow was the architect behind that. The poignancy of the parallels comes into focus in terms of how [Steph and Coach McKillop] were both able to finally achieve what they couldn’t back in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I’m a Warriors diehard and Steph loyalist, yet even I learned so much and enjoyed lots of the recovered footage in this film. What’s the process of collecting intimate moments to share with an audience? Were you always in the room interviewing Steph?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13914916']I typically don’t do interviews in my movies. It’s observational filming, sometimes filming myself. Hanging out with Steph for an afternoon, he might be working out or with his kids, and it becomes a way to show a behind-the-scenes picture of what it’s like to navigate a crushing schedule while being a husband and father. You don’t know what those scenes are going to ultimately say until you’ve shot them and then watch them with editors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We knew we’d shoot Steph with as much access as we could get. We knew we would interview his parents and the people in his life going back to Davidson to try to understand the impact he had and tell the story of that 2008 run. We interviewed scores of former students from that time to retell that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last pieces are archival — personal, family, stuff that students had shot or collected. That was challenging. Matt Fisher was our archival editor; he scraped the internet and reached out to alumni groups, the university, Steph’s family. NCAA and NBA footage [are used] as well. You collect all that stuff and sort of have an idea of where you’re going and then you start putting it together in the editing room. And as the everyday narrative unfolds during the NBA season, you start to shift the narrative more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13926767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"Young Black man with short hair against blurry background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-800x502.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-1020x640.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-768x482.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-1536x964.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Stephen Curry in a still from Pete Nicks’ ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFFILM)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>This film is largely about Steph Curry as a fallible, unlikely hero, rather than an invincible superstar. What were the challenges in telling the story in a way that allows audiences to see him — one of the most accomplished players in NBA history — as being underrated? Some would argue he is actually overrated.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title emerged pretty early. Most of us have gone through some time in our life when we’ve felt underrated, misunderstood, maybe had a chip on our shoulder and felt we had something to prove. Even with a superstar on Steph Curry’s level that can exist. As we got deeper into the details of his early career in high school and him not getting any recognition from D-I schools, we recognized the depth of the lack of vision that people had for his potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Peter Nicks']‘It goes back to the notion that all of us are connected and that we all need a sense of family and community to represent us.’[/pullquote]In a subtle way, I’ve been exploring that theme in Oakland. What’s at stake when people do not fully see you? Ryan [Coogler, this film’s producer,] told a story with extreme stakes with Oscar Grant — a young Black kid in a hoodie — about the consequences of not being seen as a whole person. Steph’s story is a version of that notion of how we only see the surface — a skinny kid, undersized, might get pushed around. With scouts and journalists, there’s a knee-jerk judgment there that gets layered on top of someone’s potential future. When that happens, it’s very difficult to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found out how whenever family and a community see you and lift you up, and a mentor steps in and believes in you, powerful things happen. We’ve been unpacking that notion of being underrated and how it applies to athletes, communities, universities. It became a driving idea for \u003ci>Underrated\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In his lowest moments, Steph Curry had his family and Coach McKillop. Who was your mentor, and in what ways have you felt underrated?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In college, I had a significant drug problem and was arrested and sent to federal prison. When I got out, I was getting my life back together and went to Howard to study creative writing. That wasn’t even six years removed from me being in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got it in my head to study documentaries. UC Berkeley was a great place for that. \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/else/\">Jon Else\u003c/a> was a filmmaker there, and had been nominated for Oscars. He was a producer for the seminal PBS series about Civil Rights, \u003ci>Eyes on the Prize\u003c/i>. I didn’t think I’d get in because of my grades and my record. [John Else] talked to me, he listened, he heard my story about why I was there and what I was hoping to achieve, what I had planned for the next five years. He advocated for my admission and I got in. That changed my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I was seen, despite what had happened to me and despite me not meeting the eye test, so to speak, I was nevertheless seen. I thought about that while making this movie: the parallels. I’m 6-foot-2. Steph is 6-foot-2. I’m mixed race. Steph is mixed race. I was born in Akron, Ohio. Steph was born in Akron, Ohio. How do you explain that? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are countless ways to talk about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13914916/stephen-curry-chef-warriors-game-6-nba-finals-2022\">Golden State Warriors megastar, Stephen Wardell Curry\u003c/a>. Champion. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.davidson.edu/news/2022/12/01/home-team-stephen-curry-10-improbable-journey-began-davidson\">Improbable\u003c/a>.” Future Hall of Famer. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/ridiculous-steph-curry-slingshot-pass-resulted-perfect-steve-kerr-reaction\">Absurd\u003c/a>.” Humble. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joxzF51REAE\">So inspirational\u003c/a>.” Father. No singular descriptor can capture \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flm-cZ7r6eE\">the Three-Point God\u003c/a> in all of his matrix-bending dimensionality, but perhaps one word comes close: underrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how can the best shooter in basketball’s history — who boasts one of the sport’s best resumes as a two-time league MVP, four-time NBA champion, eight-time All-NBAer and nine-time All-Star, who has definitively splashed the most three-point field goals of all-time — be undervalued, even underappreciated? It’s a question that Bay Area filmmaker, Peter Nicks, set out to investigate with his latest documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/event/opening-night-stephen-curry-underrated-2/\">\u003ci>Stephen Curry: Underrated\u003c/i>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Premiering April 13, on the opening night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13926757/2023-sffilm-festival-bay-area-guide\">2023 SFFILM Festival\u003c/a>, the visual biography takes viewers on an intimate ride-along from the early moments of Curry’s high school days to the present — hot off a triumphant 2022 NBA Finals run. The film presents a story of redemption and endurance, sacrifice and celebration, disappointment and euphoria. At its core, it’s the most human depiction you’ll likely ever get of the global phenomenon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basketball isn’t at the forefront of this film: a messy, perseverant human life is. There are scenes of Curry doing homework after NBA practice to earn his college degree. There are moments with his three children that teeter between frustration and playfulness. And there are flashbacks — lots of flashbacks — to his years as a scrawny, unknown, often-dismissed teenager who went unrecruited by the nation’s top basketball programs and settled for the only option he had: Davidson College, a small liberal arts school in suburban North Carolina with zero basketball notoriety. It was a program he would drastically transform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his herculean achievements, Curry has remained largely “underrated.” He’s never embodied the desired stature or cocky attitude of a dominant athlete. It’s fitting, then, that Nicks — a Bay Area storyteller who has been documenting Oakland’s institutions for the past decade — would be the perfect person to share Curry’s inspiring story with a national audience. Nicks sat down with KQED to talk about his own journey to becoming a filmmaker and the process of creating \u003ci>Underrated\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13927574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Four men stand smiling in front of Sunday step-and-repeat\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1458963294_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Producer Ryan Coogler, director Peter Nicks, Stephen Curry, and producer Erick Peyton at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alan Chazaro: How did your sports fandom influence or inform your approach to this film? Did you grow up rooting for the Warriors?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Peter Nicks:\u003c/b> I grew up a hardcore sports fan from Boston. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQUel1Ssq8\">“We Believe” team\u003c/a> was the first time I kinda got shaken out of my complacency and started to pay closer attention [to the Warriors]. The Bay Area in the 2000s was just an incredibly exciting place to be a sports fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t making sports documentaries; I was making films about a community facing challenges — education, criminal justice, healthcare. I noticed that Bay sports arenas were filled with wildly diverse groups of people from all walks of life. I always fantasized making a film about the A’s that celebrated the Bay and the community and how people can come together — like church. Sporting events are a time when people come together for a common purpose. To capture that in film was something I wanted to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>When did the actual recording and interviews happen? What were you most interested in capturing during those moments?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was several months prior to last year’s season. I met with Steph and explained to him my philosophy of storytelling, which involves observation without filming: hanging out and understanding the ecosystem. If it’s an institution, I spend time with doctors, nurses, patients. In this case, it was with Steph and his family. In a way, he has become his own Bay Area institution, a superstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can we make a film about a very well-known athlete that feels unique? Immediately, the first time I met Steph, he got his phone out and started sharing photos and videos from college. He just lit up and you could sense a nostalgia for that moment in his life. You got the sense that this piece of the story hadn’t really been told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Steph and the Warriors ended up winning the NBA Finals in 2022, which aligned perfectly with the theme of Steph’s resilience at Davidson. How did that unlikely Warriors championship shape your filmmaking in the moment? Did the plot evolve while shooting? No pun intended.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It wasn’t a thought. I encouraged people in meetings to keep a gentle eye on the season. Documentaries are wildly unpredictable. For my film about the police department in Oakland [\u003ci>The Force\u003c/i>], we had to re-edit the entire thing in the final hour because an OPD scandal broke out and it became an integral part of the film. With \u003ci>Homeroom \u003c/i>[about Oakland High School], COVID hit and Black Lives Matter went international. You can’t predict those in a documentary, but if you position yourself to allow those unexpected things to happen and you’re prepared to make a shift in the narrative, that’s where the magical moments happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The championship was not integral to our narrative. This documentary is a coming-of-age story about an underrated, undersized player who couldn’t even get the opportunity to play at his parent’s alma mater, [Virginia Tech]. The fact that he went on a run in the NBA Finals and it dovetailed with his failed effort in the 2008 [NCAA] tournament was really poignant. It’s beyond serendipity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What are the challenges of piecing all those years and scenes together to tell a coherent narrative?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you watch the movie, the credit [goes to] JD Marlow, the editor who did a remarkable job, it’s the weaving of three storylines. Maybe four if you count Steph’s relationship with Coach [Bob] McKillop about someone fulfilling their full potential. There’s always a mentor who isn’t a parent in those situations. An uncle, cousin, coach. It makes a difference. In that arc of the Davidson Wildcats, it also tracked the Warriors’ improbable run to a championship and Stephen’s promise to his mom [to complete his college degree].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a very difficult task — to weave them together in a coherent way, with pace and entertainment. JD Marlow was the architect behind that. The poignancy of the parallels comes into focus in terms of how [Steph and Coach McKillop] were both able to finally achieve what they couldn’t back in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I’m a Warriors diehard and Steph loyalist, yet even I learned so much and enjoyed lots of the recovered footage in this film. What’s the process of collecting intimate moments to share with an audience? Were you always in the room interviewing Steph?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I typically don’t do interviews in my movies. It’s observational filming, sometimes filming myself. Hanging out with Steph for an afternoon, he might be working out or with his kids, and it becomes a way to show a behind-the-scenes picture of what it’s like to navigate a crushing schedule while being a husband and father. You don’t know what those scenes are going to ultimately say until you’ve shot them and then watch them with editors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We knew we’d shoot Steph with as much access as we could get. We knew we would interview his parents and the people in his life going back to Davidson to try to understand the impact he had and tell the story of that 2008 run. We interviewed scores of former students from that time to retell that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last pieces are archival — personal, family, stuff that students had shot or collected. That was challenging. Matt Fisher was our archival editor; he scraped the internet and reached out to alumni groups, the university, Steph’s family. NCAA and NBA footage [are used] as well. You collect all that stuff and sort of have an idea of where you’re going and then you start putting it together in the editing room. And as the everyday narrative unfolds during the NBA season, you start to shift the narrative more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13926767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"Young Black man with short hair against blurry background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-800x502.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-1020x640.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-768x482.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/STEPHEN-CURRY_2_COVER-1536x964.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Stephen Curry in a still from Pete Nicks’ ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFFILM)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>This film is largely about Steph Curry as a fallible, unlikely hero, rather than an invincible superstar. What were the challenges in telling the story in a way that allows audiences to see him — one of the most accomplished players in NBA history — as being underrated? Some would argue he is actually overrated.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title emerged pretty early. Most of us have gone through some time in our life when we’ve felt underrated, misunderstood, maybe had a chip on our shoulder and felt we had something to prove. Even with a superstar on Steph Curry’s level that can exist. As we got deeper into the details of his early career in high school and him not getting any recognition from D-I schools, we recognized the depth of the lack of vision that people had for his potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a subtle way, I’ve been exploring that theme in Oakland. What’s at stake when people do not fully see you? Ryan [Coogler, this film’s producer,] told a story with extreme stakes with Oscar Grant — a young Black kid in a hoodie — about the consequences of not being seen as a whole person. Steph’s story is a version of that notion of how we only see the surface — a skinny kid, undersized, might get pushed around. With scouts and journalists, there’s a knee-jerk judgment there that gets layered on top of someone’s potential future. When that happens, it’s very difficult to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found out how whenever family and a community see you and lift you up, and a mentor steps in and believes in you, powerful things happen. We’ve been unpacking that notion of being underrated and how it applies to athletes, communities, universities. It became a driving idea for \u003ci>Underrated\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In his lowest moments, Steph Curry had his family and Coach McKillop. Who was your mentor, and in what ways have you felt underrated?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In college, I had a significant drug problem and was arrested and sent to federal prison. When I got out, I was getting my life back together and went to Howard to study creative writing. That wasn’t even six years removed from me being in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got it in my head to study documentaries. UC Berkeley was a great place for that. \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/else/\">Jon Else\u003c/a> was a filmmaker there, and had been nominated for Oscars. He was a producer for the seminal PBS series about Civil Rights, \u003ci>Eyes on the Prize\u003c/i>. I didn’t think I’d get in because of my grades and my record. [John Else] talked to me, he listened, he heard my story about why I was there and what I was hoping to achieve, what I had planned for the next five years. He advocated for my admission and I got in. That changed my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because I was seen, despite what had happened to me and despite me not meeting the eye test, so to speak, I was nevertheless seen. I thought about that while making this movie: the parallels. I’m 6-foot-2. Steph is 6-foot-2. I’m mixed race. Steph is mixed race. I was born in Akron, Ohio. Steph was born in Akron, Ohio. How do you explain that? It goes back to the notion that all of us are connected and that we all need a sense of family and community to represent us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Louisiana State University beat the University of Iowa in the women’s NCAA tournament final on Sunday in a matchup full of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/02/1167668881/lsu-iowa-ncaa-basketball\">historic firsts\u003c/a> and dramatic moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most-talked about moves happened late in the game and involved two star players, John Cena’s wrestling catchphrase and a social media frenzy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what happened: LSU forward Angel Reese celebrated the Tigers’ fourth-quarter lead (and imminent victory) by waving one hand in front of her face — a gesture popularized by the wrestler as “You Can’t See Me” — and tapping her ring finger while looking pointedly at Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/espn/status/1642650038886170624\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moment quickly went viral, with commentators and observers criticizing Reese for what they perceived as unsportsmanlike taunting of Clark. The word “classless” even \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=classless&src=typed_query\">trended on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese is Black and Clark is white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both players have been standouts at this year’s March Madness: Reese, 20, was named \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/36048786/content-not-fit-narrative-lsu-reese-last-laugh\">Most Outstanding Player\u003c/a> on Sunday, while 21-year-old Clark — who had already been named 2023 Player of the Year by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrg.com/2023/03/31/caitlin-clark-wins-another-national-player-year-award/\">several associations\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2023-04-01/caitlin-clarks-record-breaking-ncaa-tournament-run-numbers\">broke multiple records\u003c/a> at the tournament. She finished with 191 points, the most ever scored by any man or woman in a single NCAA tournament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both players have used the same gesture at this year’s March Madness: Clark waved a hand in front of her face two games earlier when Iowa beat Louisville to enter the Final Four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she didn’t get criticism for it. In fact, she earned praise, including \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnCena/status/1640774822626992139?s=20\">from Cena himself\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JohnCena/status/1640774822626992139\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Reese faced backlash for returning the gesture, many people, including professional athletes, took to Twitter to point out the racist double standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919506']And this is far from the only time that’s happened, \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> sports columnist and ESPN panelist Kevin Blackistone \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167683199/lsu-is-the-womens-ncaa-basketball-champion-mens-winner-decided-tonight\">told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> on Monday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example: Jack Johnson, who became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-Johnson\">first Black heavyweight boxing champion\u003c/a> early in the 20th century, was called cowardly for the same defensive style of boxing that earned white fighters praise for using their guile. Blackistone later \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ProfBlackistone/status/1642847805080322049/photo/1\">tweeted that\u003c/a> NFL halfback Joe Lilliard was “a standout in the league in the early 1930s and just as cantankerous as many white players back then, but was castigated for being so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been conditioned into judging similar, if not the same, behavior by white athletes and Black athletes differently,” Blackistone told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>. “And this was another anecdote to go along with that qualitative evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RGIII/status/1642652287154761728\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where does the gesture come from?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cena has been doing the “You Can’t See Me” move since he brought it to the WWE in \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/lHm6mgOMyEE\">the early 2000s\u003c/a>, waving an open hand across his face to suggest he’s too fast for his opponents to see him coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHm6mgOMyEE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also the title of Cena’s 2005 \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbnation.com/wrestling/2014/8/8/5792278/listening-to-john-cenas-rap-album-in-the-year-2014\">debut rap album\u003c/a>, which included “The Time is Now,” his now-iconic \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svjMiqVeiG8\">entrance song\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cena may have popularized the gesture, but he didn’t create it from scratch. He publicly credits rapper and G-Unit member Tony Yayo with doing it first, in his 2005 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqEncKFd7M8\">“So Seductive” music video\u003c/a> with 50 Cent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqEncKFd7M8&t=91s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did it get into Cena’s hands? He’s brought that story to several talk show stages in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/__gMSsaGNA0?t=70\">told Jimmy Fallon\u003c/a> last year that when he was working on his 2005 album, his younger brother Sean was “always our litmus test” and never satisfied with any of the songs. 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But when other people do it, y’all don’t say nothing,” Reese said. “So this is for the girls that look like me, that want to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you. It was bigger than me tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that Twitter will always “go in a rage,” but she feels happy for all that she’s done to help grow women’s basketball this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sportingnews/status/1642671282767507456\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nick_rothschild/status/1642664982172295170?s=20\">said at a postgame briefing\u003c/a> that she had “no idea” that Reese was taunting her, adding that she was “just trying to get to the handshake line and shake hands and be grateful that my team was in that position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just trying to spend the last few moments on the court with especially the five people that I’ve started 93 games with, and relishing every second of that,” Clark added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said at that same conference that “we’re all different people and we all have different ways to show our emotions,” adding she could only focus on what she can control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are others saying?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EmmanuelAcho/status/1642651280211603456?s=20\">athletes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PeterBurnsESPN/status/1642650651439034373?s=20\">commentators\u003c/a> and fans are calling out the people who have criticized Reese, questioning why they didn’t take issue with the gesture when Clark did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910698']“If you didn’t say it was classless when Caitlin Clark did it to her opponents then don’t say it about Angel Reese either,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RGIII/status/1642655304180531201?s=20\">tweeted former Baylor quarterback\u003c/a> and Heisman winner Robert Lee Griffin III.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired NBA player \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/etanthomas36/status/1642656571061678080?s=20\">Etan Thomas\u003c/a> called people out for finding it “cute” when Clark did it. “So don’t be all outraged and talking about class and sportsmanship when Angel Reese does the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others encouraged people who had that reaction to interrogate the bias behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you celebrated Clark for doing this but not Angel Reese you gotta take a long, long look in the mirror,” tweeted \u003cem>The Athletic \u003c/em>writer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itsmeglinehan/status/1642663520830464008?s=20\">Meg Linehan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others still urged people to move away from the conversation and, as one women’s basketball \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WBBWorldWide/status/1642655683010076672?s=20\">fan account\u003c/a> put it, “let these women trash talk!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports journalist Holly Rowe \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sportsiren/status/1642662230708609024?s=20\">called on people\u003c/a> to stop bashing the players, no matter whose side they took.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unapologetically confident young women should be celebrated NOT hated,” she added. “Get used to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. 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And the difficulty with that is being in white culture with Eurocentric beauty standards, navigating what their response to that was at 15 years old and not knowing how to fight back against that, really outside of saying, ‘No, this is just what I want to do.’ And that became a very difficult conversation and situation, navigating that both with my family, with my community, with coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"Five comic book panels depict a young man going to get his hair braided for the first time. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-scaled.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaepernick describes how NBA champion Allen Iverson was an inspiration. \u003ccite>(Kaepernick Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took me, I think, about 14 years before I grew my hair back out. 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One, to make sure that we don’t have a never-ending book, because there’s a lot of story to tell. But the other part of it is we wanted to create a defining moment that younger kids and high school kids could identify with, which is that transition and decision of what to do after high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for me, at that point in time, baseball was the obvious decision for everyone around me. I have multiple offers. I had the MLB come and sit down in my living room and tell me they wanted to draft me. There was an obvious career path there. And I had not a single offer for football at this point, but it was what I loved and what I wanted to do. I made the decision that that’s what I was going to chase, in spite of everyone else telling me I should go a different direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether the NFL has changed for the better over the past six years\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I haven’t seen any substantial change. 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And the difficulty with that is being in white culture with Eurocentric beauty standards, navigating what their response to that was at 15 years old and not knowing how to fight back against that, really outside of saying, ‘No, this is just what I want to do.’ And that became a very difficult conversation and situation, navigating that both with my family, with my community, with coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"Five comic book panels depict a young man going to get his hair braided for the first time. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1020x1532.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/change-the-game_14_custom-d454f2cca4f4e4d000a493dc79d18d786e9cecef-scaled.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaepernick describes how NBA champion Allen Iverson was an inspiration. \u003ccite>(Kaepernick Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took me, I think, about 14 years before I grew my hair back out. 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