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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/495534789.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-138170\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/495534789-640x431.jpg\" alt=\"California Chrome, with exercise rider Willie Delgado up, at Belmont Park. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Chrome, with exercise rider Willie Delgado up, at Belmont Park. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 pm Saturday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Chrome failed to win the Triple Crown, finishing fourth to a horse named Tonalist. California Chrome suffered a gash to his right front foot, possibly at the start of the race, which may have impacted his effort. His trainer says the injury is not serious. Chrome's co-owner, \u003ca href=\"http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/06/california-chrome-owner-triple-crown-belmont\">Steve Coburn told NBC Sports in an emotional post race interview\u003c/a> that he doesn't think any horse will win the Triple Crown in his lifetime. Coburn said it was cowardly for some owners to have their horses to sit out one of the Triple Crown races, in order send a fresh horse to try and take down his horse which competed in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Tonalist, the winner, did not race in the Derby or Preakness. The heavy favorite was running his third tough race in a 5-week span. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nj.com/horse-racing/index.ssf/2014/06/belmont_stakes_2014_twitter_reacts_swiftly_to_california_chrome_co-owner_steve_coburns_rant.html\">Coburn's comments were debated by fans on Twitter.\u003c/a> It has been 36 years since there was a Triple Crown winner. The last horse to do so was Affirmed in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday morning):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My non horse-racing friends are starting to check in now that the Belmont Stakes is near. They want to know if California Chrome can \u003cstrong>really\u003c/strong> win the Triple Crown. Yes, I say, with complete conviction. How do I know this? It’s not because the flashy chestnut from the Central Valley has drawn a good post position (2) for the race, or that he’s training like monster, or that he’s put on weight, even after a grueling series of races. It's not because Chrome’s breeding indicates he’s got just as good a chance as the next horse of staying the distance. And I’m not blindly rooting for him because of how uplifting it would be to see a horse from humble beginnings win The Sport of Kings coveted Triple Crown. Nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrome will win because of Lady Luck. Chrome’s team knows the importance of luck. All race trackers do. They know you can have the fastest horse in the race, the cleverest rider, winningest trainer, and hail from the richest bluegrass barn in Kentucky ... but luck is the factor you can’t control, at any level of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is probably why so many who make a living on the track are superstitious. I learned about this while working on the backstretch at Arlington Park outside of Chicago. Walking horses around in the early morning after they’ve exercised, you start to see what folks do to conjure luck. Avoid black cats, sure. But some folks refuse to eat peanuts in the barn. Others nail horseshoes right-side-up in doorways so their luck doesn’t run out. It’s institutional: Some tracks skip the number 13 when numbering their barns. No horse whatsoever will be found in barn 13 at one of the country’s most venerable tracks — Kentucky’s Keeneland. There wasn’t one at Arlington Park when I worked there either — I actually went looking for it, to make sure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/53764/racetrack-veterans-look-for-luck-in-odd-customs-and-beliefs\">(One trainer takes this to extremes.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrome's lucky talisman for the Triple Crown is a misspelled saddle blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you spell California Chrome? Well, in Kentucky, somehow it got spelled \"Califorina Chrome\" on his saddle blanket, and track officials presented that to the horse when he got to town. Some folks felt it was a slight, maybe done on purpose. Racing writers across the country smirked at Churchill Downs' error. It was embarrassing. Then Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness, did the same thing — on purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Because anything that's worked to get California Chrome to the winners' circle thus far should not be messed with. Chrome won the Kentucky Derby after getting that misspelled saddle blanket. Now it's part of the winning equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153195979&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Chrome arrived in the Big Apple to prep for the third leg of the Triple Crown, naturally, Belmont officials presented his owners with another misspelled saddle blanket. If — ahem — \u003cem>when\u003c/em> he wins, Team Chrome promises to autograph it and auction it for charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/belmont-officials-allow-california-chrome-to-wear-nasal-strip\" target=\"_blank\">nasal strip that caused a brief commotion\u003c/a> two weeks ago. If New York racing officials didn’t let Chrome wear the nasal strip, well then, said trainer Art Sherman, the owners might withdraw from the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perry Martin, he might not run if they say you can’t run with a nasal strip,\" Sherman said, referring to California Chrome's co-owner. \"He’s very funny about things like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.avma.org/News/JAVMANews/Pages/s021500e.aspx\">Nasal strips are not performance enhancing\u003c/a>, and the horse trains without it. So, you'd think his connections wouldn't go to the mat if he couldn't wear it. Thankfully, we never had to find out: Racing officials quickly changed that rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The luck of the possum?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the possum story. A possum scared a lot of people on the track one misty morning at Belmont. The marsupial started ambling across the race track while Chrome was galloping down the stretch. Most high-strung thoroughbreds would spook and possibly injure themselves. Everyone watching held their breath. The possum spooked the horse next to Chrome. But you can see in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85242/california-chrome-unfazed-by-opossum-on-track\" target=\"_blank\">the video from Blood-Horse\u003c/a>, Chrome remains oblivious to the possum. And I consider that very lucky, though assistant trainer Alan Sherman, says, heck, they have coyotes at Los Alamitos, so Chrome wasn’t going to be bothered by a little old possum, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=201lcDRo_dg&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85242/california-chrome-unfazed-by-opossum-on-track\" target=\"_blank\">More information at Blood-Horse\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you discount luck, there is good reason to believe California Chrome will be the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years — and the first ever California-bred to win it. The telltale sign is that he’s putting on weight, and he’s training like he wants more work. He's run a lot of hard races this year. Even good horses might get worn out, become less interested in racing and go off their feed. Not Chrome. He’s pulling his rider around the track in the mornings and still loving to run. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85396/california-chrome-sharp-in-final-belmont-work\" target=\"_blank\">Another video from Blood-Horse\u003c/a> showed his latest workout, which had onlookers raving about him — even some East Coast handicappers who pooh-poohed him before both the Derby and Preakness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9T7-PwGH0&w=420&h=315]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85396/california-chrome-sharp-in-final-belmont-work\" target=\"_blank\">More information at Blood-Horse\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a lot is going Team Chrome's way. And a lot of us want a little piece of that luck. A crowd of 100,000 is expected to show up at Belmont to see him run Saturday. The horse is happy and his humans remain almost naively happy. Every interview is upbeat, every comment about their horse a positive one. They just stand back and admire him, enjoying the ride. They know it’s all up to Chrome — and maybe that saddle blanket.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chrome's lucky talisman for the Triple Crown is a misspelled saddle blanket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you spell California Chrome? Well, in Kentucky, somehow it got spelled \"Califorina Chrome\" on his saddle blanket, and track officials presented that to the horse when he got to town. Some folks felt it was a slight, maybe done on purpose. Racing writers across the country smirked at Churchill Downs' error. It was embarrassing. Then Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness, did the same thing — on purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Because anything that's worked to get California Chrome to the winners' circle thus far should not be messed with. Chrome won the Kentucky Derby after getting that misspelled saddle blanket. Now it's part of the winning equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153195979&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Chrome arrived in the Big Apple to prep for the third leg of the Triple Crown, naturally, Belmont officials presented his owners with another misspelled saddle blanket. If — ahem — \u003cem>when\u003c/em> he wins, Team Chrome promises to autograph it and auction it for charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/belmont-officials-allow-california-chrome-to-wear-nasal-strip\" target=\"_blank\">nasal strip that caused a brief commotion\u003c/a> two weeks ago. If New York racing officials didn’t let Chrome wear the nasal strip, well then, said trainer Art Sherman, the owners might withdraw from the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perry Martin, he might not run if they say you can’t run with a nasal strip,\" Sherman said, referring to California Chrome's co-owner. \"He’s very funny about things like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.avma.org/News/JAVMANews/Pages/s021500e.aspx\">Nasal strips are not performance enhancing\u003c/a>, and the horse trains without it. So, you'd think his connections wouldn't go to the mat if he couldn't wear it. Thankfully, we never had to find out: Racing officials quickly changed that rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The luck of the possum?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the possum story. A possum scared a lot of people on the track one misty morning at Belmont. The marsupial started ambling across the race track while Chrome was galloping down the stretch. Most high-strung thoroughbreds would spook and possibly injure themselves. Everyone watching held their breath. The possum spooked the horse next to Chrome. But you can see in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/85242/california-chrome-unfazed-by-opossum-on-track\" target=\"_blank\">the video from Blood-Horse\u003c/a>, Chrome remains oblivious to the possum. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Samantha Clark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137500\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/8111794267_a67ca672f0_b.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-137500\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/8111794267_a67ca672f0_b-640x395.jpg\" alt=\"The Silicon Valley Rollergirls play BADG Berkeley Resistance. (Mark Nockleby/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silicon Valley Roller Girls play BADG Berkeley Resistance. (Mark Nockleby/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate smells like nacho cheese, plus decades of sweat sealed into the leather of its roller skates and the peeling carpet. “There’s that smell,” someone said as he walked through the doors. Still, the place is cool, with arcade games, rattan '70s-era lamps and a disco ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose Skate on Blossom Hill is closing the doors Saturday, and people want to say goodbye. One woman walked her husband to the rink blindfolded for a surprise date at their old hangout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the first place Sam Carrington could go without parents. She and about 20 friends held a reunion at the rink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened inside these walls, stayed inside these walls,” Carrington said. “At San Jose Skate, it was the first time my lips touched someone else’s for the purpose of romance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrington also met her first boyfriend and then her first girlfriend at San Jose Skate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rink opened as Aloha Roller Palace in 1977, and since then it has hosted countless birthday parties and skating lessons. Now it’s slated for redevelopment as a retail space, said Don Imwalle, president of local developer Imwalle Properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bottom line is that there are just not a lot of people roller-skating,” he said. “While there are some passionate groups, there are not enough people who are patronizing the business to make it any way viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For skating groups, the loss of a rink leaves them without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten-year-old Sayer McDonald is a competitive inline skater on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Milpitas-Speed-Team/183193556230\">Milpitas Speed Team\u003c/a>. Her mother drove her to south San Jose three days a week for practice. The team’s old rink was demolished for housing, and now Sayer will have to practice outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wind blows, and there can be dog droppings,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate has also been home to \u003ca href=\"http://svrollergirls.com/\">the Silicon Valley Roller Girls\u003c/a> for seven years, which is raising $20,000 to secure a new space. The leagues are saying aloha to the rink by competing in a doubleheader on Saturday. The Silicon Valley Killabytes will take on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FaultlineDerbyDollz\">Faultline Derby Devilz\u003c/a> from Hollister, and the Silicon Valley Dot.Kamikazes will play the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaderbygirls.com/teams/berkeley-resistance\">Bay Area Berkeley Resistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Underground Rock Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-2000s, San Jose Skate was also home to the underground music scene. Local bands and big bands played metal and hard-core rock loudly, often featuring lots of blood-curdling, and unintelligible, screaming. However, when San Jose Skate stopped hosting shows in 2008, the scene died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137685\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/photo-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/photo-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Tucker and Matt Mrizek of North of the Woods play at San Jose Skate one last time. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-137685\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Tucker and Matt Mrizek of North of the Woods play at San Jose Skate one last time. (Samantha Clark/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>High school students and 20-somethings came to hear music at the rink Friday and Saturday nights dressed in black and skinny jeans. They swung their arms in mosh pits, and the neighbors called the cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I told my parents I was going to a metal show, they would say, ‘No you’re not,’ ” said Andrew Tucker who went to the shows when he was in high school. “I could just say I’m going to the roller rink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That crowd is now grown up. Tucker teaches a freshman writing course at San Jose State, where he is also working toward his MFA in creative writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and hundreds of folks from the scene showed up to the rink this weekend for a farewell concert series featuring 17 out of 19 bands that reunited just to play one last time at the venue. Some bands even flew in members from other states to practice, and many practiced daily in the week leading up to San Jose Skate’s last breakdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Skate got them to pick up their guitars and drumsticks again. Tucker’s band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-of-the-Woods/147807758622609\">North of the Woods\u003c/a>, said that even though the shows now are over, they want to keep playing music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t played together in four years,” said Matt Mrizek, a guitarist in the band. “The show kind of kick-started us to get back in the swing of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Kutsenda, a former general manager, used to organize the shows. Now he runs his own online marketing company. But when he heard about San Jose Skate’s sale, he messaged all the bands and booked the lineup the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place that we’ll talk about for the rest of our lives. A lot of people won’t understand it, a lot of people won’t get it, but what we had here was sacred, too,” Kutsenda said. “We hear crazy stories about guys who, like I said earlier, picked up their first guitar because of a band or like, met their now-wife at San Jose Skate. We’ve heard crazy, crazy stories like that, and it just became ingrained with who we all were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kutsenda said that it was important to send off the rink with a proper farewell after being such a part of their adolescence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad because San Jose Skate’s closing is like the last nail in the scene’s coffin,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/491849445.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136468\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/491849445-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"California Chrome, center, heads toward victory in the Preakness States at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. Disputed nasal strip is visible just above Chrome's nostrils. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Chrome, center, heads toward victory in the Preakness States at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. Disputed nasal strip is visible just above Chrome's nostrils. 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The horse's bloodline is weak, especially compared to the horses that fetch millions of dollars for their prestigious heritage. And \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/25/why-california-chrome-should-not-win-the-derby\">the owners\u003c/a>, well they’ve never owned a racehorse before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sport that needs a shot in the arm,” said Drape. “People get excited. They want to see something, you know, that is truly great and that they haven’t seen for almost 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the horse with four white feet, which is apparently considered bad luck in horseracing, continues to defy his history and superstition. The underdog has become the favorite. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-136355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/169010277-640x409.jpg\" alt=\"The Preakness infield has long been a big party scene. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Preakness infield has long been a big party scene. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> California Chrome has won the Preakness, and now has a chance at the first Triple Crown by any horse in 36 years, since 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> This Saturday \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/25/why-california-chrome-should-not-win-the-derby\" target=\"_blank\">California Chrome\u003c/a> will race in the Preakness Stakes, continuing his chase for a spot in the history books after his Kentucky Derby win. Right now the horse is an overwhelming favorite, despite coughing a few times after his workout Thursday morning. Veterinarians have cleared him to race, saying the issue is a small blister in his throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the years that I worked at the Baltimore Sun, I was among the legions of reporters sent to Pimlico on a hot Saturday each May to cover the Preakness Stakes. In the Triple Crown trio of races, the Preakness is the one people often forget about. Lacking the snobbery and cachet of the Kentucky Derby and the historical significance of the Belmont Stakes, the role of the Preakness is often reduced to crushing our collective hopes for a Triple Crown winner. (To be fair, though, in the past decade three horses have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown, leaving even the honor of disappointing the masses to the Belmont Stakes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8f57064210f46fa1f35a72568c3d0794\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside Pimlico, the grandstands on the perimeter of the track are for the wine-and-cheese crowd, drawn to the Preakness by a love of racing, gambling or, more often, the social status associated with being there. Between each race, crowds spill inside the concourse to line up at the betting windows and grab a black-eyed Susan cocktail before returning to their seats for the next race. The cycle repeats every half hour, back and forth, all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the grandstands are for the serious racing fans, you might be tempted to call the infield the cheap seats, but really the people there have come for another reason altogether: live music and booze. For a journalist sent to document the wild spectacle of the whole event, Pimlico is like a custard-filled doughnut — the perimeter is fine and fluffy, but the good stuff is in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first year out, I made my way inside the track early, hoping to get the lay of the land before the crowds filled in. Passing under the racetrack through a tunnel, the infield came into view. Several stages dotted the landscape, a visible sign of how race organizers are working to turn the event into a legitimate music festival, not just a 10-hour drink-a-thon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136351\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-136351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/547404_853348665453_597722191_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"One of the best views of Pimlico is on top of the press box where journalists covering the races often take their lunch. (Photo courtesy of Stokely Baksh)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author on top of the Pimlico press box, where journalists covering the races often take their lunch. (Photo courtesy of Stokely Baksh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Can you take our picture?\" a woman whined, handing me her camera before hurrying back to a group of middle-aged women wearing denim shorts, halter tops and platform sandals. Each donned a wide brim hat, decorated with dollar-store tchotchkes like plastic fruit, a rubber ducky and artificial flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I waved the group into place and steadied the camera. \"One ... Two ...,\" I called out just as one woman pulled down her top, baring her breasts. \"Wooooo!! Go Shannon!\" another woman screamed as she poured a beer over her friend. \"Heck yeah,\" bellowed a man walking by. \"Three ...\" I said, as the shutter clicked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Welcome to the Preakness,\" a colleague told me later as I recounted the story. “Just wait until things really get started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowdy infields are certainly not unique to the Preakness. When I was in college, frat boys and their sorority girl dates would make a pilgrimage every year to the Kentucky Derby infield, returning sunburned and worn out with tales that usually ended with the phrase, “… and then I passed out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Preakness infield is its own Baltimore variety of crazy. Freakness, some call it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than Cinco de Mayo, New Year's Eve or St. Patrick’s Day, the Preakness is the high holy day of binge drinking for Maryland’s party-inclined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A favorite tradition is the Porta-Potty Run (or the Toilet Run, as we journalists are trained to call it since Porta-Potty is a name brand.) Once everybody is sufficiently drunk, the bravest are hoisted on top of the long rows of portable toilets and sent to run from john to john — racing the guy on the adjacent row of potties. It’s a dangerous tradition that has sent at least a few revelers to the hospital, not to mention petrified countless innocent chaps who were just looking to take a whiz in peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some years ago, crews began spacing out the toilets to try and cut down on the tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the jumping started ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hc5basgJ1qczp5ko1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>(GIF by The Baltimore Sun) \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sagging attendance at the 2010 race, Preakness organizers decided to appeal to a younger demographic by bringing in a half-man, half-horse mascot named Kegasus. The “party manimal,” as he was also called, sported an ample beer gut, long hair and a nipple ring. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136252\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/kerr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-136252 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/kerr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Broadcaster and former NBA player Steve Kerr works the game between the Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards in Game Five of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals during the 2014 NBA Playoffs, April 29, 2014 in Chicago. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broadcaster and former NBA player Steve Kerr works Game Five of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals during the 2014 NBA Playoffs. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Your Golden State Warriors have a new head coach. Yesterday, reports surfaced that the team was hiring Steve Kerr — a decorated player and current TV analyst with no coaching experience. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/warriors/2014/05/14/steve-kerr-golden-state-head-coach-joe-lacob-mark-jackson/9104855/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today's Sam Amick points out\u003c/a>, that all sounds surprisingly similar to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/golden-state-warriors-fire-coach-mark-jackson\" target=\"_blank\">recently ousted Mark Jackson\u003c/a>, who was fired last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerr's coaching résumé looks exactly the same as Jackson's did when Warriors owner Joe Lacob gave him his first chance back in 2011. 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He then moved to the front office, serving as general manager of the Phoenix Suns for three seasons from 2007-2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move elicited words like \"Stunner,\" \"Shocker\" and \"Spurned.\" The latter referred to the New York Knicks's attempts to lure Kerr, whose longtime coach, Phil Jackson, has taken over the reins. The deal was thought to be a foregone conclusion, until the Warriors swooped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBA.com's David Aldridge, who broke the story on Twitter Wednesday, had this to say about \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/2014/news/features/david_aldridge/05/14/kerr-aldridge-warriors-coach/index.html?ls=nbahpsplit1\" target=\"_blank\">Kerr's decision to spurn the Knicks and his former coach\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerr, 48, was Jackson's first and only choice to replace Mike Woodson, and for the last couple of weeks, everything pointed toward Kerr joining Jackson, now the Knicks' president of basketball operations, in New York. But Kerr was overwhelmed by the Warriors' talent base, their west coast address and a last-minute pilgrimage the team's brain trust made to Oklahoma City on Monday to change his mind.\u003cbr>\n\"It just felt like the right move on many levels,\" Kerr said by phone Wednesday. \"They have a good young team. The location is ideal. My daughter goes to Cal and plays volleyball. My oldest son is in college in San Diego and our youngest is a junior in high school. It's just a short flight for them.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Ultimately, it was agonizing to say no to Phil because of what I think of him and what he's done for my career,\" said Kerr, who won three titles playing for Jackson in Chicago with the Bulls. \"When Phil Jackson asks you to coach the Knicks, how do you say no? I think they're going to turn it around, but going to be a big undertaking and it's going to take time. The idea of doing that 3,000 miles from home, it just didn't feel right...I told Phil, 'I think I have to pursue this other opportunity,' Kerr said. \"He gave me his blessing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5hj057WrxY&w=560&h=315]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It was bizarre, memorable and sickly compelling: Donald Sterling, the beleaguered owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, viciously attacked Magic Johnson in an interview where he repeatedly insisted that he is not a racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Spike Lee characterized Sterling’s interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, which aired Monday night, as “delusional.” No matter what adjective one applies, the diatribe did nothing but intensify the uproar that erupted on April 25, when TMZ Sports released a recording of a conversation between the 80-year-old team owner and his friend, V. Stiviano, in which he disparaged African-Americans and made one racist remark after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days later, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million. It seemed like things might settle down a bit after that. But not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an account of the interview from The Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — An interview that was supposed to be an attempt at rehabilitation instead had Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling facing fresh rebukes as he went from apologizing for recent racist remarks to slamming Magic Johnson, repeatedly bringing up the ex-NBA star’s HIV status and calling him an unfit role model for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s got AIDS!” Sterling said loudly at one point in the interview, cutting off CNN’s Anderson Cooper as the interviewer attempted to cite Johnson’s accomplishments after Sterling asked, “What has he done, big Magic Johnson, what has he done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments earned Sterling quick condemnation from the league that was already trying to rid itself of the owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Adam Silver, who gave Sterling a lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine two weeks ago, issued a statement saying, “while Magic Johnson doesn’t need me to, I feel compelled on behalf of the NBA family to apologize to him that he continues to be dragged into this situation and be degraded by such a malicious and personal attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The NBA Board of Governors is continuing with its process to remove Mr. Sterling as expeditiously as possible,” the commissioner added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelley Sterling, watched her husband’s interview and told NBC’s “Today” show that he may be losing his mental faculties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not the man I know, or I knew,” she said. “There’s something wrong. I really think, personally, he has dementia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it happened overnight. I think it’s been happening, but nobody really knew the reason. I mean, he gets crazy, and yells, and screams, and hollers one moment. The next moment he’ll … talk about something else. I mean it’s like nothing makes sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who is scheduled to appear on Cooper’s show to reply on Tuesday, wrote on his Twitter account that “I’d rather be talking about these great NBA Playoffs than Donald Sterling’s interview.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson later Tweeted, “After this week, no more Sterling talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling changed course briefly during the interview to call Johnson “a good person,” but soon resumed his criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He acts so holy,” Sterling said. “He made love to every girl in every city in America, and he had AIDS, and when he had those AIDS, I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him, I hope he could live and be well. I didn’t criticize him. I could have. Is he an example for children?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper corrected Sterling, explaining that Johnson was HIV-positive but did not have “full-blown AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling briefly adjusted his language but not his tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of a guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he catches HIV. Is that someone we want to respect, and tell our kids about?” Sterling said. “I think he should be ashamed of himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More on the Sterling interview:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports lawyer Michael McCann wrote \u003ca href=\"http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20140513/donald-sterling-anderson-cooper-cnn-la-clippers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a column on Sports Illustrated’s website\u003c/a> about the potential legal fallout from the interview. McCann said it was stunning that Sterling’s handlers would have approved it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cooper surprisingly revealed that Sterling was without legal counsel and public relations advisers for the interview. While “Sterling unscripted” may have been the real deal, genuineness was probably the wrong approach for someone with Sterling’s cantankerous style and cringeworthy worldview. Indeed, Sterling used the interview as much to apologize as to savagely attack Johnson and offer archaic and ignorant generalizations about race. He also referred to the 31-year-old Stiviano as a “girl” rather than a woman. This was not a man who seemed “coached” by his handlers at all. Unfortunately for Sterling, he likely scored no points with the scorers: the other 29 controlling owners of NBA teams.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/05/13/what-donald-sterling-gets-wrong-about-magic-johnson-hiv-and-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post column,\u003c/a> Alyssa Rosenberg wrote about the enormous impact of Johnson’s relevation in 1991 that he was HIV-positive and of how he provided a radically different image of what it meant to live with the virus — a true role model instead of an embarrassment, as Sterling described him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>That is an ugly, retrograde sentiment that shames people who contracted the virus because of their sexual history. And Sterling also profoundly misunderstands the ways in which Johnson’s HIV diagnosis actually led him to make enormous contributions. Johnson has not just been a role model to the “children of Los Angeles” Sterling said should be his focus, but also an ambassador who changed America’s understanding of his disease.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2014/05/12/sterlings-crime-now-is-hes-bad-for-business/9010645/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today\u003c/a> said the interview effectively killed any shred of sympathy that other NBA owners might have felt for Sterling, and it reminded people of exactly why he has to go:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Already a pariah for his vile and racist comments, it didn’t seem possible that the Los Angeles Clippers owner could further damage his own image and, by association, that of the NBA. Yet that’s exactly what he did in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that aired Monday night, throwing gasoline on a fire the NBA had only just begun to get under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his repeated insistence that he’s not a racist, everything else Sterling said showed him to be an ignorant and hate-filled person. He trashed Magic Johnson, claiming – wrongly – that the Lakers Hall of Famer has done nothing for the black community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/05/jon-stewart-breaks-down-donald-sterlings-apology/370071/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wire\u003c/a> noted that Sterling’s latest performance — in which he apologized for saying horrible things by saying even more horrible things — has inspired a new segment from Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show,” which is called “Wow, Did Not See That Coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart said the interview with Sterling served another purpose as well: It has reminded everyone what the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowardly_Lion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cowardly Lion\u003c/a> looks like without makeup.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s got AIDS!” Sterling said loudly at one point in the interview, cutting off CNN’s Anderson Cooper as the interviewer attempted to cite Johnson’s accomplishments after Sterling asked, “What has he done, big Magic Johnson, what has he done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments earned Sterling quick condemnation from the league that was already trying to rid itself of the owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Adam Silver, who gave Sterling a lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine two weeks ago, issued a statement saying, “while Magic Johnson doesn’t need me to, I feel compelled on behalf of the NBA family to apologize to him that he continues to be dragged into this situation and be degraded by such a malicious and personal attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The NBA Board of Governors is continuing with its process to remove Mr. Sterling as expeditiously as possible,” the commissioner added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelley Sterling, watched her husband’s interview and told NBC’s “Today” show that he may be losing his mental faculties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not the man I know, or I knew,” she said. “There’s something wrong. I really think, personally, he has dementia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it happened overnight. I think it’s been happening, but nobody really knew the reason. I mean, he gets crazy, and yells, and screams, and hollers one moment. The next moment he’ll … talk about something else. I mean it’s like nothing makes sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who is scheduled to appear on Cooper’s show to reply on Tuesday, wrote on his Twitter account that “I’d rather be talking about these great NBA Playoffs than Donald Sterling’s interview.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson later Tweeted, “After this week, no more Sterling talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling changed course briefly during the interview to call Johnson “a good person,” but soon resumed his criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He acts so holy,” Sterling said. “He made love to every girl in every city in America, and he had AIDS, and when he had those AIDS, I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him, I hope he could live and be well. I didn’t criticize him. I could have. Is he an example for children?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper corrected Sterling, explaining that Johnson was HIV-positive but did not have “full-blown AIDS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling briefly adjusted his language but not his tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of a guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he catches HIV. Is that someone we want to respect, and tell our kids about?” Sterling said. “I think he should be ashamed of himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More on the Sterling interview:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports lawyer Michael McCann wrote \u003ca href=\"http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20140513/donald-sterling-anderson-cooper-cnn-la-clippers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a column on Sports Illustrated’s website\u003c/a> about the potential legal fallout from the interview. McCann said it was stunning that Sterling’s handlers would have approved it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cooper surprisingly revealed that Sterling was without legal counsel and public relations advisers for the interview. While “Sterling unscripted” may have been the real deal, genuineness was probably the wrong approach for someone with Sterling’s cantankerous style and cringeworthy worldview. Indeed, Sterling used the interview as much to apologize as to savagely attack Johnson and offer archaic and ignorant generalizations about race. He also referred to the 31-year-old Stiviano as a “girl” rather than a woman. This was not a man who seemed “coached” by his handlers at all. Unfortunately for Sterling, he likely scored no points with the scorers: the other 29 controlling owners of NBA teams.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/05/13/what-donald-sterling-gets-wrong-about-magic-johnson-hiv-and-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post column,\u003c/a> Alyssa Rosenberg wrote about the enormous impact of Johnson’s relevation in 1991 that he was HIV-positive and of how he provided a radically different image of what it meant to live with the virus — a true role model instead of an embarrassment, as Sterling described him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>That is an ugly, retrograde sentiment that shames people who contracted the virus because of their sexual history. And Sterling also profoundly misunderstands the ways in which Johnson’s HIV diagnosis actually led him to make enormous contributions. Johnson has not just been a role model to the “children of Los Angeles” Sterling said should be his focus, but also an ambassador who changed America’s understanding of his disease.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2014/05/12/sterlings-crime-now-is-hes-bad-for-business/9010645/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today\u003c/a> said the interview effectively killed any shred of sympathy that other NBA owners might have felt for Sterling, and it reminded people of exactly why he has to go:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Already a pariah for his vile and racist comments, it didn’t seem possible that the Los Angeles Clippers owner could further damage his own image and, by association, that of the NBA. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_X6NTIzi0?rel=0&w=640&h=360]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-california/#02-preview-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Update, 5 p.m. Monday\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.teamsky.com/profile_news/0,27292,17578,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Wiggins\u003c/a>, the 2012 Tour de France champion who goes by the name of \"Sir,\" won the 20-kilometer Stage 2 time trial to take the lead in the Tour of California. Here's \u003ca href=\"http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/05/news/wiggins-wins-stage-2-amgen-tour-california_327535\" target=\"_blank\">the summary of the finish from VeloNews\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins asserted himself at the Amgen Tour of California Monday, winning the stage 2 time trial in Folsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins (Sky) set a winning mark of 23:18 on the mostly flat, 12.4-mile course to beat Rohan Dennis (Garmin-Sharp) by 44 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing) was third, at 52 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the win, the 2012 Tour de France champion took the overall lead in the eight-day tour, which concludes Sunday in Thousand Oaks.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From steephill.tv: \u003ca href=\"http://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-california/#spoiler\" target=\"_blank\">the stage results and overall standings\u003c/a>. Tuesday, the race starts in San Jose, summits Mount Hamilton, plunges down the back side of the Bay Area's highest mountain, and finishes with a climb of Mount Diablo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stage 1:\u003c/strong> For me, there was only one thing certain as the first stage of the Tour of California sped toward a sprint finish in downtown Sacramento on Sunday: Sooner or later, the race commentators would break out the nickname \"Manx Missile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That moment came when the Missile — \u003ca href=\"http://www.omegapharma-quickstep.com/en/team/rider/mark-cavendish\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Man native Mark Cavendish\u003c/a> — began to surge to the front about 250 meters from the end of the 120-mile stage. Cavendish, the winner of more than 120 races and individual stages in his career, moved alongside German rider John Degenkolb, who was hanging on to the lead after moving to the front about 300 meters from the finish line. (The video above, \u003ca href=\"http://www.steephill.tv/tour-of-california/\" target=\"_blank\">from steephill.tv\u003c/a> shows the last few miles of the race; fast forward to 5:45 for the final kilometer of the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here comes the Manx Missile!\" shouted NBC Sports race announcer Phil Liggett. \"But has he got the legs? And the answer is no, he has not! As John Degenkolb comes up to the line, it's going to be right on the line, Degenkolb will get it, Cavendish will be second on the line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, actually ... Cavendish managed to throw his bike across the line and won by the width of a tire and a little more. But it was so close that neither of the men who contested the sprint was sure who won. So instead of \u003ca href=\"http://www.bicycling.co.za/race-news/tour-de-france/tour-features/bizarre-victory-salutes/6/\" target=\"_blank\">arms thrown in the air, pumped fists, baby-rocking, bow-drawing, or any of the other victory celebrations we usually see\u003c/a>, we got a picture of two exhausted cyclists waiting for the official finish-line photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final minutes of the race call by Liggett and Paul Sherwen — assisted by retired race veteran Christian Vande Velde — featured one moment of pure Sherwen poetry. Here, he describes the plight of a breakaway rider, Kiel Reijnen, fighting to stay away from the peloton as the stage entered its final stretch:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sherwen:\u003c/strong> It's a long, hard ride here. The next time he comes up to the line he should hear the bell indicating one lap to go. And that will be sweet music to his ears, but the pain in his legs will still be singing out to him, 'Please stop, please give me a break.' But you can't, when you're in a situation like this, you've got to give it everything, you can't look back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can see, if you look back down the road there, you can start to see that black mass of the main field, waiting like a hawk in the sky, waiting to come out of the sun and pounce on their prey, and they will spit him out of the back of that main field as if he was nothing at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vande Velde: \u003c/strong>I really hope not ...\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the Associated Press write-up on Sunday's opening stage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Antonio Gonzalez\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — Mark Cavendish has more than 100 wins around the world, including 25 stages in the Tour de France, but he never had a victory like the one he had Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135653\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/489626653.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-135653\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/489626653-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Cavendish, left, edges ahead of John Degenkolb, right, at finish of the first stage of the Tour of California in Sacramento on Sunday. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\" width=\"426\" height=\"284\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Cavendish, left, edges ahead of John Degenkolb, right, at finish of the first stage of the Tour of California in Sacramento on Sunday. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cavendish edged ahead of John Degenkolb in a thrilling sprint to win the first stage of the Tour of California in the closest finish in the event's nine-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the first time in my career I really didn't know the result until it was confirmed to me,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Degenkolb surged ahead of the most decorated Tour de France sprinter ever in the final stretch before Cavendish — a native of the Isle of Man dubbed the \"Manx Missile\" — burnished his legacy again. The two raced shoulder-to-shoulder as Cavendish came up along the right side and edged Degenkolb by the width of a tire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was so close that neither rider celebrated until learning the results, which were confirmed by photos, though Degenkolb looked dejected waiting for the final word. After the results were announced, he congratulated Cavendish with a heartbreaking hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that I lost,\" said Degenkolb, a German riding for Team Giant-Shimano. \"Sometimes it's really just 1 or 2 centimeters, but normally you feel it straight away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavendish completed the 120-mile stage in 4 hours, 44 minutes, 7 seconds for the Omega Pharma-Quick Step Cycling Team. Moreno Hofland of the Netherlands and Belkin Pro Cycling was third. Slovak sprinter Peter Sagan, who has dominated Tour of California sprints the last several years and won a record 10 stages, got buried in the pack and finished fifth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longest stage of the eight-day, 720-mile journey through California's eclectic climates came down to a drama-filled finishing stretch just steps away from the state Capitol — and even then it took a minute to know who actually won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the bell rang for one lap to go around the tree-lined downtown circuit, the teams of the big sprinters pulled to the front. Cavendish appeared to wait too long to attack — and had to work harder after teammate Mark Renshaw recovered from a punctured tire — before finally getting free and churning his legs for a powerful closing burst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rode along the right of Degenkolb and lowered his helmet to the line. Cavendish, who announced in April he would skip the Giro d'Italia — where he won five stages last year — for the Tour of California and Tour de Suisse after an illness, also won the Sacramento stage in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This fits in perfectly for what I want to do this year,\" he said. \"I should be fresh enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Small of the Specialized-lululemon team won the women's circuit race. The Tour of California resumes with a time trial in Folsom on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race, which has evolved into North America's most prestigious cycling event, has lived up to the billing so far. This year's field includes several world-class talents, including Cavendish and 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Tejay van Garderen, the winner last year, is not competing, instead focusing on cycling's marquee race in July. But his BMC Racing Team still has aspirations of challenging Wiggins, who will no doubt be the man to beat on the mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overall winner figures to be sorted out on those steep climbs, including the Stage 3 ascent up Mount Diablo on Tuesday — when a heat wave is expected to send temperatures into the upper 90s — and the Stage 6 ride up Mountain High on Friday. The race ends May 18 over the same circuit in Thousand Oaks that concluded the 2010 edition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the opening stage, a blue sky and undulating hills on the edge of California's Central Valley provided a more serene backdrop. But the big breezes — which came from every direction on the circuitous route — added an unexpected twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no shortage of wind,\" Canadian rider Will Routley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was one of six riders — Matt Cooke, Charles Planet, Thomas Leezer, Tao Geoghegan Hart and Isaac Bolivar Hernandez — who were part of an early breakaway. 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