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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Adam Grossberg, Lisa Pickoff-White and Mina Kim\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133441\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 306px\">\u003ca href=\"https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zgZCB-6wwdQg.k-WpoCGxiJqk\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-133441 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-6.01.16-PM-382x640.png\" alt=\"Former and proposed arena locations.\" width=\"306\" height=\"512\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former and proposed arena locations.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:50 a.m., April 22\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts confirmed that the team is moving further inland. Welts said Salesforce offered up the land near Third and 16th streets just last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a very intense six weeks, and we actually finally signed the purchase agreement just this last Saturday,\" Welts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous plan would have had to overcome a local ballot measure, Proposition B, that would limit the height of San Francisco waterfront developments. Campaign co-chair Jon Golinger said the Warriors knew that would be a tough fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Warriors saw the vote on 8 Washington last year, which was a resounding rejection of height limit increases for luxury condos. They saw how quickly we qualified this measure with overwhelming support,\" Golinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 6:40 p.m. April 21\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Edwin M. Lee today issued the following statement on the Warriors’ new arena in Mission Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome the Golden State Warriors back home to San Francisco with a brand-new, privately-financed arena in Mission Bay. This new site on privately-owned land in Mission Bay will provide a spectacular location and a more certain path to bring a transit-rich, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment arena to San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State Warriors today moved closer to a new arena in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/04/warriors_salesforce.php\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Warriors-ditch-Piers-30-32-for-Mission-Bay-arena-5418579.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> report the basketball team is abandoning controversial plans to build an arena on the Embarcadero at Piers 30-32 near the foot of the Bay Bridge, and instead inked a deal to purchase a 12-acre plot in Mission Bay from Salesforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new location eliminates the need for voter approval of stadium plans and avoids other regulatory obstacles. The deal, reportedly agreed upon Saturday night, would be the site of a new 18,000-seat venue ready for the 2018-2019 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem was the there was too much political opposition and too many environmental hurdles that they had to go over for the original site, even though the original site is more desirable,\" Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics at Smith College, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle reports that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Mission Bay site, where Salesforce originally planned to locate its corporate campus, will have a planned waterfront park across from the arena, has a Muni T-Third stop right in front of it, and already has two adjacent parking garages that can hold a combined 2,130 cars.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not only will the Warriors own the property outright, but owner Joe Lacob says the team will privately finance construction of the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It might be the first time that there’s been a clear entire private funding of not only construction but also the land,\" Zimbalist said. \"It looks like Mr. Lacob is going the extra mile to get this deal done. And perhaps breaking new ground in terms of private financing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Warriors' new neighbor, UC San Francisco, has any concerns, a $100 million donation to the university from Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff may have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salesforce had originally planned to use the site as the location for a new corporate campus, but abruptly changed course in February 2012. It recently agreed on a $560 million lease to occupy 30 floors as anchor tenant of the Transbay Tower, which is scheduled to open in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warriors will also have another close neighbor, AT&T Park. Both teams will have to find a way to manage crowds, especially when basketball and baseball seasons overlap. The Giants have also been eyeing a waterfront development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Giants have a proposal that they're working on to build a multi-use development with housing, retail and office space,\" said Wendy Thurm, a writer who covers sports and the business of sports and tweets \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">@hangingsliders\u003c/a>. \"Whether and how these two developments will coexist or benefit each other … remains to be seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warriors routinely sell out at their current home, Oracle Arena in Oakland. But Lacob has been interested in raising the team’s national profile by moving it to San Francisco since he became the majority owner in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Mayor Ed Lee's waterfront redevelopment plan are cheering the new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art Agnos, former San Francisco mayor and supporter of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nowallonthewaterfront.com/news\" target=\"_blank\">Yes on B\u003c/a>, which would limit the height of waterfront development, thinks that political pressure may have helped the Warriors reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what Proposition B is all about — empowering the people of this city to participate in the decisions that affect the waterfront that belongs to all of us. The Warriors have shifted to a smarter alternative because the people, not just the politicians, became involved in the process,\" Agnos said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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This new site on privately-owned land in Mission Bay will provide a spectacular location and a more certain path to bring a transit-rich, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment arena to San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State Warriors today moved closer to a new arena in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/04/warriors_salesforce.php\" target=\"_blank\">SF Weekly\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Warriors-ditch-Piers-30-32-for-Mission-Bay-arena-5418579.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> report the basketball team is abandoning controversial plans to build an arena on the Embarcadero at Piers 30-32 near the foot of the Bay Bridge, and instead inked a deal to purchase a 12-acre plot in Mission Bay from Salesforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new location eliminates the need for voter approval of stadium plans and avoids other regulatory obstacles. 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And perhaps breaking new ground in terms of private financing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Warriors' new neighbor, UC San Francisco, has any concerns, a $100 million donation to the university from Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff may have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salesforce had originally planned to use the site as the location for a new corporate campus, but abruptly changed course in February 2012. It recently agreed on a $560 million lease to occupy 30 floors as anchor tenant of the Transbay Tower, which is scheduled to open in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warriors will also have another close neighbor, AT&T Park. Both teams will have to find a way to manage crowds, especially when basketball and baseball seasons overlap. 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(Harry How/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, as the whole Colin Kaepernick-watching world knows by now — the news has been ricocheting around social media for hours and hours — the 49ers quarterback's name has surfaced in a Miami police report about a \"suspicious incident\" involving a woman and two other pro football players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shock news site TMZ.com was apparently first with the story and headlined it \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/10/colin-kaepernick-49ers-sexual-assault-investigation-miami-viceroy/#continued\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick Investigated for Sexual Assault\u003c/a>.\" The Miami Herald said, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/10/4051537/49pers-qb-colin-kaepernick-2-other.html\" target=\"_blank\">49er QB Investigated for Sexual Assault\u003c/a>.\" Other media picked up the \"Kaepernick investigated for sexual assault\" line and pretty much ran with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49ers have responded with a statement attributed to General Manager Trent Baalke: \"The 49ers organization is aware of the recent media report regarding Colin Kaepernick and is in the process of gathering the pertinent facts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There are gaping holes in the police report. The journalistic response is to describe those holes and ask the police how they’re filling them.'\u003ccite>— Kelly McBride,\u003cbr>\nPoynter Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In that context, it's worth taking a look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/217505156/Miami-Police-Report-Suspicious-Incident-involving-San-Francisco-49ers-quarterback-Colin-Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">the Miami police \"information report\"\u003c/a> (embedded below) that's the basis of all the stories about Kaepernick, the other players (49ers receiver Quinton Patton and Seattle Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette) and the unidentified woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does the document, based on an April 3 police interview with the woman, actually say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cites Kaepernick, Patton and Lockette as suspects in an incident that unfolded the evening of April 1 and early April 2, in a luxury residential hotel on Miami's Brickell Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unnamed woman, who says she has had a previous sexual relationship with Kaepernick, said she went to visit Lockette in his apartment. Patton and Kaepernick were already there when she arrived. The report continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They talked for a while and she mixed some drinks for all of them and gave them shots. advised [sic] that they told her that in order to drink the shots she had to 'hit' the bong which contained marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sat down, talked, and watched the basketball game. She started to feel light headed and went to a bedroom to lie down. [Redacted] took off her jacket and jewelry. Mr. Kaepernick came behind her into the bedroom and started kissing her. She advised they were kissing (mouth) and Mr. Kaepernick started to undressed her [sic]. She got completely naked. Mr. Kaepernick told her that he was going to be right back and left the bedroom. They did not have sex. [Redacted] advised that she was in bed naked and Mr. Patton and Mr. Lockette opened the door and “peeked” inside. She told them 'what are you doing? Where is Colin?;' 'get out!'. They closed the dooer and left. She cannot remember anything after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Redacted] woke up in a hospital and doesn’t remember how she got there or who transported her to the hospital.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, to be clear, nothing there reflects glowingly on Kaepernick or the other players. The disturbing suggestion that's raised, and that media outlets have been quick to seize on, is that the woman was drugged, assaulted and then dumped at a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's a suggestion that comes from filling in the blanks: \"If A and B happened, then C must have happened, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it's important to note that a presumption of innocence is afforded even to pro football players who may comport themselves in a questionable manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the document we're looking at today is what the police are careful to describe as an \"information report.\" It \u003cem>does\u003c/em> describe the woman as a \"victim\" and the players as \"suspects.\" But as \u003ca href=\"http://about.poynter.org/about-us/our-people/kelly-mcbride\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly McBride\u003c/a>, a media ethics specialist at Florida's \u003ca href=\"http://about.poynter.org/about-us/mission-history\" target=\"_blank\">Poynter Institute\u003c/a>, notes: “There are gaping holes in the police report. The journalistic response is to describe those holes and ask the police how they’re filling them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the obvious questions the police document raises, McBride points out, is what the hospital says about the woman's state and condition. How did the woman get to the facility? If she was incapacitated somehow, was a drug test performed? Was a sexual assault suspected?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride said that with so many unanswered questions, it's \"absolutely disingenuous\" for media outlets to characterize the police inquiry as a sexual-assault investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Samuel, an Atlanta attorney who has had a hand in defending high-profile sports figures who faced criminal allegations, says, \"I'm not sure how anyone could even bring a charge,\" based on the information the alleged victim supplied police, \"because we don't know what happened to her. Did she have a bad reaction to the marijuana? Did she fall down the stairs at her home? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cites Kaepernick, Patton and Lockette as suspects in an incident that unfolded the evening of April 1 and early April 2, in a luxury residential hotel on Miami's Brickell Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unnamed woman, who says she has had a previous sexual relationship with Kaepernick, said she went to visit Lockette in his apartment. Patton and Kaepernick were already there when she arrived. The report continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They talked for a while and she mixed some drinks for all of them and gave them shots. advised [sic] that they told her that in order to drink the shots she had to 'hit' the bong which contained marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sat down, talked, and watched the basketball game. She started to feel light headed and went to a bedroom to lie down. [Redacted] took off her jacket and jewelry. Mr. Kaepernick came behind her into the bedroom and started kissing her. She advised they were kissing (mouth) and Mr. Kaepernick started to undressed her [sic]. She got completely naked. Mr. Kaepernick told her that he was going to be right back and left the bedroom. They did not have sex. [Redacted] advised that she was in bed naked and Mr. Patton and Mr. Lockette opened the door and “peeked” inside. She told them 'what are you doing? Where is Colin?;' 'get out!'. They closed the dooer and left. She cannot remember anything after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Redacted] woke up in a hospital and doesn’t remember how she got there or who transported her to the hospital.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, to be clear, nothing there reflects glowingly on Kaepernick or the other players. The disturbing suggestion that's raised, and that media outlets have been quick to seize on, is that the woman was drugged, assaulted and then dumped at a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's a suggestion that comes from filling in the blanks: \"If A and B happened, then C must have happened, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it's important to note that a presumption of innocence is afforded even to pro football players who may comport themselves in a questionable manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the document we're looking at today is what the police are careful to describe as an \"information report.\" It \u003cem>does\u003c/em> describe the woman as a \"victim\" and the players as \"suspects.\" But as \u003ca href=\"http://about.poynter.org/about-us/our-people/kelly-mcbride\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly McBride\u003c/a>, a media ethics specialist at Florida's \u003ca href=\"http://about.poynter.org/about-us/mission-history\" target=\"_blank\">Poynter Institute\u003c/a>, notes: “There are gaping holes in the police report. The journalistic response is to describe those holes and ask the police how they’re filling them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the obvious questions the police document raises, McBride points out, is what the hospital says about the woman's state and condition. How did the woman get to the facility? If she was incapacitated somehow, was a drug test performed? Was a sexual assault suspected?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride said that with so many unanswered questions, it's \"absolutely disingenuous\" for media outlets to characterize the police inquiry as a sexual-assault investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Samuel, an Atlanta attorney who has had a hand in defending high-profile sports figures who faced criminal allegations, says, \"I'm not sure how anyone could even bring a charge,\" based on the information the alleged victim supplied police, \"because we don't know what happened to her. Did she have a bad reaction to the marijuana? Did she fall down the stairs at her home? Did she have an epileptic seizure? ... What is the crime here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the police document doesn't refer to any charges at all and concludes, \"The investigation continues ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it does, maybe those blanks we've been so quick to fill in will be replaced by facts. And then perhaps we'll know what Colin Kaepernick and his buddies were up to that night in Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_51794\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/217505156/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just in time for the opening of baseball season, there’s a new play at the San Jose Repertory Theatre about what it means to be a fan of the game. “Game On,” opening Wednesday, April 2, also explores Silicon Valley’s startup culture at a time when the subject is sizzling-hot on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131393\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131393 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/SJR_GameOn_153_web-e1396471006763.jpg\" alt='Marco Barricelli, Cassidy Brown and Craig Marker in San Jose Rep’s world premiere of \"Game On,\" through April 19. (Photo by Kevin Berne)' width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marco Barricelli, Cassidy Brown and Craig Marker in San Jose Rep’s world premiere of \"Game On,\" through April 19. (Photo by Kevin Berne)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Game On\" is by Dan Hoyle, the critically acclaimed playwright and performer of three solo shows, and Tony Taccone, the artistic director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where Hoyle’s father -- actor and clown Geoff Hoyle -- has often worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger Hoyle approached Taccone about 18 months ago with the idea for a new play about something serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neither of us really wanted to do that,\" Hoyle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which sounds disappointing, except Hoyle said the two “talked baseball the whole meeting. And the next morning Tony called me and asked, 'Do you want to write a play about baseball?' And I was like, ‘Yeah. 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They’re looking for money at a fundraiser held at a private home in the wealthy Peninsula town of Los Altos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were going to host a very high-end party for a foundation, that’s one of the places you’d want to do it,” said Rick Lombardo, director of the show and the producing artistic director for San Jose Rep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lombardo is directing the production, and he helped shape the play during the writing process. He said Silicon Valley audiences will see some familiar characters on stage, beset by some familiar foibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very interesting hypocrisy of the folks who care a great deal about the world,” Lombardo said, “and are going to give a lot of money for green startups, but who own their own private planes and they put more hydrocarbons into the atmosphere doing that than anything else they do in their lives. But they own a Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play opens at a time when the games that entrepreneurs play are a hot entertainment topic. HBO’s “Silicon Valley” debuts this Sunday, following films like “Jobs” and “The Social Network,” all set in that amorphous geographical area where venture capitalists are king.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Game On\" portrays these money men as not very nice people, so it may seem odd that playwrights Hoyle and Taccone had lots of help from a venture capitalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tony and Dan came to me when they were incubating the idea,\" said Roger Strauch, who speaks fluent startup. He’s chairman of The Roda Group, a venture capital firm in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also a big supporter of Berkeley Rep. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130879\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/130853/a%27s-giants-fans-t-shirts/shirts1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130879\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-130879 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/shirts1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A's fan Jamey Van Dyke designed this shirt to honor infileder Eric Sogard, one of the few major leaguers to wear glasses. (Jamey Van Dyke\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A's fan Jamey Van Dyke designed this shirt to honor infileder Eric Sogard, one of the few major leaguers to wear glasses. (Jamey Van Dyke)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge rivalry preseason series between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants is under way. And in a year when both teams will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1989 World Series in which they met, fans may be expected to indulge in a greater-than-usual amount of smack-talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are also things the teams and their followers have in common, and one of them is an increasing amount of imaginative fan-designed T-shirts and other merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, your choices for fan apparel providers were the team store, or a guy on the street corner or BART bridge selling badly-printed knockoffs of the team store's designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, independent companies like \u003ca href=\"http://adaptadvancers.myshopify.com\" target=\"_blank\">Adapt Clothing\u003c/a> (for the Giants) and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandish.com\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklandish\u003c/a> (for the A's) have expanded the spectrum. And now fans are becoming entrepreneurs, thanks to new technology that's made it easy to work up a design on your computer, market it to other fans on social media, and outsource the printing and shipping to a company like \u003ca href=\"http://www.spreadshirt.com\" target=\"_blank\">Spreadshirt\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.redbubble.com\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bubble\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked with several baseball-fans-turned-entrepreneurs for this story, but I know I've only scratched the surface, so please share your own favorites in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Perillo doesn't use one of the third-party companies for his A's-related shirts at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wedothelean.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">WeDoTheLean.com\u003c/a>. That's because he has an apparel printing business in Contra Costa County, so he does the work in-house. Nevertheless, he says the new print-on-demand system has revolutionized the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of our shirts are printed until they're ordered, which makes it quite economical. It's made it possible for someone who had a design idea, but didn't want to spend two or three hundred dollars on the setup, and then end up with a garage full of the wrong size shirts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perillo started making A's gear two years ago – when fans started doing a dance called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmrCvM8dk0\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Lean\u003c/a> to Oakland outfielder Coco Crisp's walk-up music “Moving Like Bernie”. One of his most popular designs has a simple silhouette of a leaning figure with no text. But sales are not what it's about for Purilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm more about, if I see somebody wearing one of our shirts, it makes me happy. I want to go up and say hi, and talk about the A's with them. It's really an independent culture type of thing. We want to support the team, but we want to do it in an individual way. And it's not either-or; I've got some of our shirts in my closet, I've got A's jerseys and shirts that I bought at the team store, it's mix and match.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designer Curtis Calhoun recently teamed up with Perillo to produce shirts from his brand \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/visualingobrand\" target=\"_blank\">Visualingo\u003c/a>. “I saw a few other fans doing it, I'm a graphic designer by trade and I thought I could come up with some cool ideas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130882\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/130853/a%27s-giants-fans-t-shirts/334375_542713789087842_1785344177_o/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130882\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-130882 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/334375_542713789087842_1785344177_o-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"334375_542713789087842_1785344177_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Lowrie is a cartographer in Petaluma who designed this shirt in honor of the Giants. (Scott Lowrie)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Calhoun's favorites is a tribute to the 1989 World Series, playing on the Bay Bridge rivalry from an A's fan's point of view: “I've Got '89 Problems, But SF Ain't One.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's based off the Jay-Z song “99 Problems” of course, but I put in “SF” instead of a word I wouldn't use on the radio. It came out in February, which is a month when people are not necessarily thinking about baseball, so I had no expectations about it, but it's been my biggest seller yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another A's fan, Jamey Van Dyke, started his \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/perfectgamegear\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Game Gear\u003c/a> just a few months ago. Many of his shirts are tributes to a particular A's player, such as his tribute to infielder Eric Sogard, one of the few major leaguers to wear glasses on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My shirt for Sogard was the first one that really took off. It's a simple design, a baseball with gold seams and glasses on the front of it. It happened that I got it done at the exact same time as the\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/26/as-face-giants-in-spring-opener-after-winning-key-face-matchup/\" target=\"_blank\"> “Face of MLB” thing started\u003c/a>, and our fans showed how creative they are and carried him through that whole competition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the enjoyment is seeing people happy when they get a shirt, but especially the players themselves. I went to spring training with, I think, 11 shirts which I gave to the players and their families. For (relief pitcher) Sean Doolittle I did one called “Headbangers' Ball” from the old MTV show that played nothing but heavy metal music. I know that Doolittle's into metal, so I did the metal hand sign with the hand in front of a baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Lowrie is a cartographer and owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.griffinmapdesign.com/home\" target=\"_blank\">Griffin Map Design\u003c/a> in Petaluma. So it's no surprise that the shirts he designed to honor the San Francisco Giants (and another design for the 49ers) involve geographical representations. “I was playing with ideas, and the concept of “It's a Giant World” just stuck out in my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Lowrie plans to sell his shirts alongside antique and reproduction maps when he opens a gallery and storefront in Petaluma this summer, it isn't part of his business plan. “There isn't really any money in it, when you take into consideration the time I spent working on it. I enjoy seeing people wear them more than anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Wiener is a third-generation Giants fan and freelance illustrator who \u003ca href=\"http://www.redbubble.com/people/swiener?ref=artist_title_name\" target=\"_blank\">sells her shirts through Redbubble.\u003c/a> A few years ago she was stuck for ideas for her design classes at the Academy of Art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It happened to be right about the time when (Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper) had \u003ca href=\"http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/answer-man-brandon-belt-talks-belts-giraffes-roger-185418726--mlb.html\" target=\"_blank\">bestowed the Baby Giraffe nickname on Brandon Belt\u003c/a>. I already had a lot of Giants fan friends on Twitter, and I thought you know, there's a good graphic in there. I thought I could make a good meme, and my friends could pass it around and we could all have a good laugh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She put it up on Redbubble and sold ten shirts in the first day. \"I realized I had lucked into a career of sorts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener thinks the playful nature of the T-shirt boom reflects the sensibilities of the Bay Area teams. \"Both the Giants and the A's have organizations that are mindful and respectful of traditions and legends, and the more serious parts of the game. But they also recognize that it's a game. It's fun. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/d.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/d.jpg\" alt=\"Deanna Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of competitors in gay rodeos across the country. Photo: courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of competitors in gay rodeos across the country. Photo: Courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Matthew Hansen, \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/03/25/gay-competitors-rodeo/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To flip a 700-pound cow off its feet and onto the ground, start with the mouth. Find the space between its teeth, on the rubbery, wet gums, and hook your fingers inside. Or go for a headlock. Or wedge a hip into the soft space between its neck and shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna Trujillo-James recommends trying it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has four pairs of hats, five pairs of boots, good-luck jeans and good-luck shirts. On weekends, she will drive from her home in Oakland to a beaten-up rodeo ground off the highway in Morgan Hill, sign a waiver, and tussle with cattle for hours. At parties, when people ask her hobbies, she tells them, “I wrestle steers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trujillo-James is one of hundreds of amateur contestants who, every February through October, suit up for the gay rodeo circuit, a series of local rodeo competitions that span gay communities across the nation, including an arena near the famed Las Vegas Strip and the state fairgrounds in Oklahoma City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of eight months, competitors work to collect enough points to get the coveted letter in the mail, inviting them to October’s World Gay Rodeo Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. There, the champions walk away with prize money, bragging rights and a collection of the wide, shiny belt buckles that mark rodeo elite in any league. The spectators cheer and party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To compete there,” Trujillo-James said, “takes your breath away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130359\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Judy James and Deanna Trujillo-James both promote and compete in the gay rodeo circuit. Photo: courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy James and Deanna Trujillo-James both promote and compete in the gay rodeo circuit. Photo: Courtesy of Deanna Trujillo-James\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Such moments of grace aren’t common in the sport. Rodeo is an often muddy, sweaty competition, where chutes clang open, competitors thud into paddock dirt, and cattle and horses throw kicks that can break riders’ bones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is also a historic American pursuit, a mix of Spanish and Mexican horsemanship and the frontier skills of the American cowboy — roping, riding, herding. Today, rodeo grounds span the United States and the prairie provinces of Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally a sport of cattle towns, rodeo is both growing and opening up. Within the United States, gay, Native American, black, Hispanic and Hawaiian groups all host rodeos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay rodeo is a smaller, amateur version of the big-money professional rodeo circuit, but with a more pronounced mission. It had humble beginnings in 1975, when the gay community in Reno wanted to throw a rodeo for charity but struggled to find a local rancher who would rent livestock for a gay event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of that first assortment of five cows, a pig and a pony, gay rodeo has become a complex enterprise. This year, 12 states and Canada will host gay rodeos, and “Queens and Cowboys,” an independent documentary about the circuit, is raising awareness of the sport on the film festival circuit. In keeping with tradition, many rodeos still raise money for charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of competitors, Trujillo-James did not grow up watching cowboys bucking bulls. She was a studious kid in Southern California, raised by a single mother with a big extended family. When her family discovered she was dating a woman, she and her mother stopped speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy James is Trujillo-James’ wife, and a gay rodeo promoter. Her father would take her to rodeos in his native Wyoming every year. Like Trujillo-James, coming out was a trial for James. She ran away from home at 17, after her parents found her love letters to another woman. She was legally emancipated from her family just before turning 18, after a family intervention went bad and her father ended up pointing a gun at her, James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rodeo was a bond in both families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their last visit to see James’ father before he died, they took him out to the same rodeo she had visited as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest joy in my life is that father got to meet Dee, and accepted her,” James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130358\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trujillo-James’ mother now regales friends with stories about her cowgirl daughter. For years, she had hoped her daughter’s interest in women was “just a phase,” but now discusses gay rodeo with pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tells people, ‘My daughter’s a gay cowgirl.’ She loves educating people,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets gay rodeo apart from other rodeo leagues is its resolutely amateur nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of competitors — straight and gay — who choose our rodeo because they are going to get challenged off some pretty good livestock, but not as much as the mainstream rodeo where the livestock are just going to knock you out,” Judy James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, gay rodeo is gender-neutral, allowing men and women to compete equally in events. While women are often restricted to barrel racing or other non-contact events in traditional rodeo, women competitors in gay rodeos can bull ride, bareback ride and wrestle steers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay rodeo incorporates the traditional events found in any rodeo, like riding and roping, with decidedly non-traditional ones: putting panties on a goat, or helping a drag queen ride a bull.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are things you’re just not going to find anywhere but a gay rodeo,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the pro leagues, no one is going to make a living off gay rodeo. Competitors often pay nearly as much in entry fees as they will make in prize money, sometimes more than $100 per weekend for a $250 prize. But Judy James says the finances are beside the point. Instead, it’s an opportunity — even outside the arena — to be a part of a deeper culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a Batman lifestyle,” she said. “This is who we are. I may not wear a cowboy hat here, but it’s still a part of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in San Francisco’s Castro District, an epicenter for gay fashion and culture, a cowboy hat and a pair of boots turns heads. Within the Bay Area’s gay community, rodeo competitors are a small, tight-knit group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in their full Western outfits, they sometimes become objects of fascination on nights out. “It’s a reversal. Now we’re the grand dames of the ball because there are eight of us in a room full of hundreds of drag queens,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1013-300x200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1013-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Lyle feeds his rodeo bulls in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Lyle feeds his rodeo bulls in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Photo: Matthew Hansen/Peninsula Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the small towns in the Bay Area where they sometimes compete — like the mountain town of La Honda in San Mateo County — the reaction is similar. “When we show up, people shout, ‘Gay cowboys are here!’ We bring in a lot of business to these small communities,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rodeo world is changing around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Lyle is an old hand at the sport; He rode his first bull at 14 and aches from old competition injuries. Today he runs the rodeo grounds where Trujillo-James trains in Morgan Hill, and supplies bulls for gay and traditional rodeos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyle has seen rodeo wax and wane in popularity. Its peak saw riders seduced by movies such as “Urban Cowboy” in 1980, he said, but the Professional Bull Riders craze has swept a lot of interest away from the traditional competition. Now, when he hosts a rodeo, it’s usually in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and rodeo promoter KC Andersen worry about the future of the sport in a rapidly urbanizing Bay Area. Andersen said the rodeo world tends to stick together, though, and that bodes well for the sport’s longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gay rodeos, black rodeos, Hispanic rodeos, we all support each other,” she said. “We’re all trying to keep the heritage going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy James agrees, but is optimistic for the future of the sport: “We have competitors who have children, who are teenagers now and are getting ready to start competing. It’s what they know. It’s the way it should be.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of eight months, competitors work to collect enough points to get the coveted letter in the mail, inviting them to October’s World Gay Rodeo Finals in Fort Worth, Texas. There, the champions walk away with prize money, bragging rights and a collection of the wide, shiny belt buckles that mark rodeo elite in any league. The spectators cheer and party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To compete there,” Trujillo-James said, “takes your breath away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130359\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/las-vegas-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Judy James and Deanna Trujillo-James both promote and compete in the gay rodeo circuit. 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She was legally emancipated from her family just before turning 18, after a family intervention went bad and her father ended up pointing a gun at her, James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rodeo was a bond in both families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their last visit to see James’ father before he died, they took him out to the same rodeo she had visited as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest joy in my life is that father got to meet Dee, and accepted her,” James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130358\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/DSC_1023-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill, Calif. in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rodeo bull waits to be fed at Bill Lyle’s rodeo grounds in Morgan Hill in February 2014. Many of these bulls will be used in area rodeos, including gay rodeo competitions. Photo: Matt Hansen/Peninsula Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trujillo-James’ mother now regales friends with stories about her cowgirl daughter. For years, she had hoped her daughter’s interest in women was “just a phase,” but now discusses gay rodeo with pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She tells people, ‘My daughter’s a gay cowgirl.’ She loves educating people,” Trujillo-James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets gay rodeo apart from other rodeo leagues is its resolutely amateur nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of competitors — straight and gay — who choose our rodeo because they are going to get challenged off some pretty good livestock, but not as much as the mainstream rodeo where the livestock are just going to knock you out,” Judy James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, gay rodeo is gender-neutral, allowing men and women to compete equally in events. 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"content": "\u003cp>By all accounts, Barry Bonds' short stint as a Giants spring training coach went well. \"I thought he had some good information that he shared with us,\" Buster Posey \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25355921/barry-bonds-his-week-giants-and-quick-batting\">told the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122935\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 282px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-122935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/112154407-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"Barry Bonds leaves the San Francisco Federal Building in April 2011 after his conviction for obstructing a grand jury investigation. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"282\" height=\"189\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry Bonds leaves the San Francisco Federal Building in April 2011 after his conviction for obstructing a grand jury investigation. 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Last week, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckPhiyahf8\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Olbermann got all Keith-Olbermanny on Bonds\u003c/a>, and while he does not necessarily speak for the average fan, he probably does represent the average Bonds hater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We begin tonight with the shame of the San Francisco Giants,\" Olbermann soft-pedaled in the segment below. He went on to call Bonds \"the man who hit more home runs and in all likelihood more PED-nullifed home runs in Major League Baseball history, scorned or dismissed or laughed at in every baseball town except San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cheated the game; you dishonored the game. The game has been better off with you forgotten, with you in the wilderness, with your statistics as meaningful as video game numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reacting to Bonds' comment that \"things had calmed down a little bit\" in terms of his legal circumstances, Olbermann said: \"If you think things have calmed down, if you think this is right, you are not only a cheat and a liar, sir, you are a fool.\" At that point, I thought he was going to challenge Bonds to a duel, but he settled for calling him \"disgusting\" and communicating his personal satisfaction that Bonds' failure to make the Hall of Fame would torment him for the rest of his life. He ended with, \"I have advice for you: Get lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/VckPhiyahf8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, I don't feel qualified to condemn a man to a lifetime of anguish for cheating at baseball -- only God and TV news hosts can do that. It should be noted, however, that Bonds' on-field transgressions are only part of the story in terms of his most-hated-man-in-baseball status. San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Scott Ostler addressed that aspect last week in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Scary-Bonds-just-an-act-5321160.php\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a>....\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was weird to watch Barry Bonds at his comeback news conference talk about his old alter ego, Scary Bonds. Barry explained that the condescending and contemptuous lout who ruled the Giants' clubhouse from his reclining leather throne was an act. He created that character in order to play baseball better....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry wants us to believe he made himself Scary for two decades (he was a jerk in college, too) so he could hit more homers? That he allowed himself to sink so deeply into his character that he willingly carried that personality into his everyday life, inflicting it on teammates, family and \"friends\"?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's true, man, you talk about selling your soul.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I have no doubt Scary Bonds was real. One local sportswriter I met in my personal life basically described the slugger as one of the worst human beings he'd met in his entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50227\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50227\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/barry_bonds-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"artalog/Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">artalog/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at this point, I'm going to risk condemnation by the Internet community, which comprises a decent portion of the human race, by saying that I remained a huge admirer of Bonds well after I was reasonably certain he had embarked on his better-hitting-through-chemistry approach. It's just amazing what 73 home runs will do to a fan's moral compass. I remember talking to someone, a doctor, who said, \"I \u003cem>know\u003c/em> Barry, he wouldn't do that,\" referring to the slanderous notion the man was enjoying a little extra PED-enabled oomph. Yeah, I know him, too. He \u003cem>hits \u003c/em>like a real paragon of virtue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not the only reason I liked Bonds. The fact is, I'd met him personally, and the experience belied everything I'd ever read or heard about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was back in the ’90s. How long ago was that? Well, the World Trade Center was still standing, Afghanistan was a country no one could locate on a map, and a great deal of money could be made in the stock market by investing in random ticker symbols. I mean, this was so long ago, Yahoo, where I worked, was the No. 1 Internet company, and when most people heard the word google, they thought you were imitating a baby. Yahoo's biggest competitor back then was something called Excite.com, now long defunct. Both companies fielded softball teams in a Silicon Valley league, and I was our squad’s first baseman. One day, arriving at the field for a big intra-company game, I ran smack into a mysteriously dense wall of spectators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going on?” I asked a teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excite’s playing Barry and Bobby Bonds against us,” he said, nonsensically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? I waded through the crowd to the diamond, and there indeed stood Barry and his father, Bobby, warming up alongside the Excite team. Awash in cognitive dissonance, I soon discovered Bonds had signed a promotional deal to make an appearance on Excite’s behalf. Bobby was just along for fun. Excite had also brought a photographer and a PR dude to chronicle the surefire shellacking they were going to administer to us Yahoos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot of the event, as it is permanently etched in my mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Barry hit a ball that almost tipped the top of my glove at first base, then kept rising to shoot out over the fence in right field.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We won the game, despite the presence in the opposing lineup of one of the game’s great hitters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barry Bonds couldn’t have been more gracious, hospitable, friendly and relaxed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Yep, Bonds treated our little softball game with respect. He proceeded to sign autographs, pose for pictures and chat with us for close to an hour. Sure he was being paid, but that shouldn’t have been enough to prevent him from acting like an ass; we were just a bunch of local fans, after all, swarming around him trying to get a little face time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I even shared a moment with Bonds alone. He came to bat one inning, and we intentionally walked him. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/IBB_season.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Major League Baseball pitchers soon routinely imitated our strategy\u003c/a>.) I smiled at him, and he grinned back. Then I shook his hand, and he smiled wider. The 12-year-old fan in me went all oogly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds' demeanor impressed everyone. And that night, one could argue, this sports superstar, a local boy who'd played high school ball in San Mateo, was a genuine part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can I say, Keith Olbermann? Isn’t the heart of the matter that we see some sports hero on TV or in interviews, or if we're lucky play against him in a meaningless softball game, and we think we have some insight into him? Or even “know” him? And in our childish identification, we choose to know him as a \u003cem>friend\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I still like Bonds, and I was glad to see him back in the Giants' fold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay was published in another form in 2010.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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He ended with, \"I have advice for you: Get lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/VckPhiyahf8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, I don't feel qualified to condemn a man to a lifetime of anguish for cheating at baseball -- only God and TV news hosts can do that. It should be noted, however, that Bonds' on-field transgressions are only part of the story in terms of his most-hated-man-in-baseball status. San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Scott Ostler addressed that aspect last week in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Scary-Bonds-just-an-act-5321160.php\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a>....\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was weird to watch Barry Bonds at his comeback news conference talk about his old alter ego, Scary Bonds. Barry explained that the condescending and contemptuous lout who ruled the Giants' clubhouse from his reclining leather throne was an act. He created that character in order to play baseball better....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry wants us to believe he made himself Scary for two decades (he was a jerk in college, too) so he could hit more homers? That he allowed himself to sink so deeply into his character that he willingly carried that personality into his everyday life, inflicting it on teammates, family and \"friends\"?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's true, man, you talk about selling your soul.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I have no doubt Scary Bonds was real. One local sportswriter I met in my personal life basically described the slugger as one of the worst human beings he'd met in his entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50227\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50227\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/barry_bonds-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"artalog/Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">artalog/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at this point, I'm going to risk condemnation by the Internet community, which comprises a decent portion of the human race, by saying that I remained a huge admirer of Bonds well after I was reasonably certain he had embarked on his better-hitting-through-chemistry approach. It's just amazing what 73 home runs will do to a fan's moral compass. I remember talking to someone, a doctor, who said, \"I \u003cem>know\u003c/em> Barry, he wouldn't do that,\" referring to the slanderous notion the man was enjoying a little extra PED-enabled oomph. Yeah, I know him, too. He \u003cem>hits \u003c/em>like a real paragon of virtue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not the only reason I liked Bonds. The fact is, I'd met him personally, and the experience belied everything I'd ever read or heard about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was back in the ’90s. How long ago was that? Well, the World Trade Center was still standing, Afghanistan was a country no one could locate on a map, and a great deal of money could be made in the stock market by investing in random ticker symbols. I mean, this was so long ago, Yahoo, where I worked, was the No. 1 Internet company, and when most people heard the word google, they thought you were imitating a baby. Yahoo's biggest competitor back then was something called Excite.com, now long defunct. Both companies fielded softball teams in a Silicon Valley league, and I was our squad’s first baseman. One day, arriving at the field for a big intra-company game, I ran smack into a mysteriously dense wall of spectators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going on?” I asked a teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excite’s playing Barry and Bobby Bonds against us,” he said, nonsensically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? I waded through the crowd to the diamond, and there indeed stood Barry and his father, Bobby, warming up alongside the Excite team. Awash in cognitive dissonance, I soon discovered Bonds had signed a promotional deal to make an appearance on Excite’s behalf. Bobby was just along for fun. Excite had also brought a photographer and a PR dude to chronicle the surefire shellacking they were going to administer to us Yahoos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot of the event, as it is permanently etched in my mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Barry hit a ball that almost tipped the top of my glove at first base, then kept rising to shoot out over the fence in right field.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We won the game, despite the presence in the opposing lineup of one of the game’s great hitters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barry Bonds couldn’t have been more gracious, hospitable, friendly and relaxed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Yep, Bonds treated our little softball game with respect. He proceeded to sign autographs, pose for pictures and chat with us for close to an hour. 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(Kat Snow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday Update\u003c/strong>: Why the eight \"play-in\" games, determining the last four teams to make the dance, \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dayton-does-matter/\">really matter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday Update\u003c/strong>: Silver \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/we-have-a-1-in-6001225228-chance-of-winning-buffetts-billion/\">computes\u003c/a> his own odds of winning Warren Buffett's challenge as one in 7,419,071,319.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you were thinking of taking on Warren Buffett's \u003ca href=\"http://fansided.com/2014/03/17/march-madness-legally-win-billion-dollars-warren-buffett/\">billion-dollar challenge\u003c/a> to fill out a perfect bracket for the 2014 NCAA Tournament, Nate Silver has some data that you might want to check out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver is the statistician and writer who correctly predicted the presidential election outcomes in all 50 states in 2012; he has relaunched his website, \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/\">FiveThirtyEight.com\u003c/a>, funded by ESPN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's loaded with articles on everything from how statisticians could help refine the search for that \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-statisticians-could-help-find-flight-370/\">missing Malaysian Airlines jet\u003c/a> to which of the 68 teams have the best odds of \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/\">winning the NCAA Tournament\u003c/a> this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First to the latter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Silver and computer programmer Matthew Conlen, only 14 teams have any appreciable statistical (better than 1 percent) chance to prevail to the very end of March Madness. (Stanford, it should be noted, is not among them.) The chance of success is expressed as a percentage and listed next to each team:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Louisville (15)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Florida (14)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Arizona (13)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michigan State, Virginia, Kansas (6)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wichita State, Duke (5)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Villanova (4)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michigan, Creighton, Wisconsin (3)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kentucky, Ohio State (2)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Silver's model for predicting the brackets, which is in its \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/how-we-made-our-n-c-a-a-picks/\" target=\"_blank\">fourth year\u003c/a>, is principally based on a composite of five computer power ratings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ken Pomeroy’s \u003ca href=\"http://kenpom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">ratings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeff Sagarin’s \u003ca href=\"http://kenpom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">“predictor” \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaab/sagarin/\" target=\"_blank\">ratings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sonny Moore’s \u003ca href=\"http://sonnymoorepowerratings.com/m-basket.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ratings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Joel Sokol’s \u003ca href=\"http://sonnymoorepowerratings.com/m-basket.htm\" target=\"_blank\">LRMC \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/%7Ejsokol/lrmc/\" target=\"_blank\">ratings\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/%7Ejsokol/lrmc/\" target=\"_blank\"> ESPN’s \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bpi\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball Power Index\u003c/a>, which is a new addition this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Good luck with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding a Lost Airplane\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the mystery surrounding Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared just off the Malaysian coast on March 8, Silver's associate \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/carl-bialik/\">Carl Bialik\u003c/a> writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics\">\"Bayesian\u003c/a> statisticians are particularly helpful in a search operation. Their methods allow hunters to update their estimates of the probability of finding their target in any latitude-longitude combination — or even in three dimensions, accounting for depth in the water. Bayesians helped hunt \u003ca href=\"http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130705/C4ISR02/307050013/Search-theory-big-data-Applying-math-sank-U-boats-today-s-intel-problems\" target=\"_blank\">U-boats in World War II\u003c/a>, a U.S. submarine in the 1960s and an Air France jet in 2011.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem in this case may be the vast distances that need to be searched since the plane disappeared. The Malaysian government seems to have no idea to which end of the earth the Boeing 777 proceeded before sending its last-known signal to a satellite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to take a wild guess here and say someone, someday will locate that airplane. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/478435513.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129433\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/478435513-640x489.jpg\" alt=\"Jaren Sina of Seton Hall celebrates win over Villanova in Big East tournament. (Elsa/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"489\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaren Sina of Seton Hall celebrates win over Villanova in Big East tournament. (Elsa/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My housemate knocks on my door early Thursday morning. His knock is slightly less than firm, with a measured rhythm. I register this with curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the playful knock when he’s wanting to tell me a funny story about our resident labradoodle, Oscar the Wonderful Dog. It’s also not the hurried knock to ask if I want something from the store or which wastebasket is it that gets emptied into the compost, again? (He asks this every week, when we clean.) I can also tell it’s not a teasing knock that would indicate he’s about to call me out on something I did or didn’t do that he thinks will get me all up in my thing and will roust us into a good-natured (usually) bout of needling, because that knock is usually accompanied by a lilting, “Oh, Kaaaat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The less-than-firm-knock-with-a-measured-rhythm conveys to me that it’s something important and serious that lacks momentum. There’s a kind of wilted feeling to it. The way people talk when they’ve left anger behind two hours ago and are asking yet another person at the cable company, “Can you help me understand why my Wi-Fi keeps dropping out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come in,” I say. Buck opens the door and stands with the television remote in his hand, holding it out to me as if it were a ticket to a find-your-inner-whatever workshop. Something he has no desire to touch and has a vague hope I might want to take from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A household hoops crisis: A crucial tournament game is going on and my roommate can’t get the TV to work.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s the Big East, it’s not the N-C-double-A, but it’s their chance to be seeded No. 1, but the television doesn’t work and the cable won’t go on,” he says, in a rush of words that have no spaces between them. A palette of vulnerable expressions plays over his body, the hands droopy, leather jacket sagging off his shoulders, feet moving restlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although my only interest in sports is to cheer for my nieces and nephews, I’ve lived with Buck long enough to know exactly what the problem is. Something to do with \u003ca href=\"http://www.villanova.com/sports/m-baskbl/nova-m-baskbl-body.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Villanova men’s basketball\u003c/a> — his father’s alma mater. It didn’t actually take very long living with him to know that’s the answer to many problems that burst into the winter air of our home in strings of invective. It took about a day. Plus, even \u003cem>I\u003c/em> know there’s a thing called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March Madness\u003c/a> that saturates the space-time continuum of most males I know, each spring. If Occupy Wall Street had just done brackets for competitive prosecutions of the architects of the 2008 economic collapse, we’d have them all convicted by now. So I figure Buck is trying to record a basketball game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big East Playoff Takes Back Seat to Deadline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First you have to press the button for TV, then power,” I say, “then you have to press cable and then power.” He knows this, but sometimes when he’s focused on something ahead of him in time, he forgets what to do in the present to get there. He gives me a withering look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129492\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/photo-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-129492\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/photo-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"March Madness mission control: Big comfy chair? Check. Big-screen TV? Check ... (Kat Snow/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">March Madness mission control: Big comfy chair? Check. Big-screen TV? Check … (Kat Snow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh,” I say. “Sorry. I’m on deadline; can I come in 10 minutes?” Even though Buck kills so many fatted calves* during March Madness that there can’t be any left for McDonald’s, it doesn’t occur to me that it’s an emergency, that he’s actually trying to watch a game. It’s 8:45 in the morning. Who plays basketball at 8:45 in the morning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(*This is a metaphor. In case you work for PETA. Same with any references to dead chickens and first-borns. We swim in sacrificial blood during the so-called Sweet 16.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buck doesn’t seem to hear me about the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something in the upper-left corner. I can’t get out of it,” he says. He gestures toward his upper left, his arms floppy like noodles, and stumbles through a few attempts at describing the rude square of minimalist text that’s holding the Villanova Wildcats captive. He looks down the hallway toward the room of our sleeping housemate, Emily, and then up at the ceiling, and then at me, his three sources of possible rescue. In men’s college basketball season, he’s as close to leaving atheism as he ever gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I actually do know how to solve this problem of the text in the upper-left corner. But I’m on deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be there in 10 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then sees me with the computer on my lap, sitting on the air mattress that currently serves as my desk, and realizes there’s no help here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Okaaay,” he says. His gravelly voice drifts off in a thin, throaty croak as he turns sideways and pulls my door shut, a man facing the miasma in the next room with only a useless TV clicker for help. He’s consigned me to the same realm as the rest of the possibly-omnipotent-but-patently-absent-every-time-it-matters beings in the cosmos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I emerge, deadline met, desperate for a toilet (why do journalists deny our own bodies?), I see Buck in his leather chair, pulled in front of the TV, watching the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, you got it,” I say, not lingering for a response and realizing belatedly that it had been an emergency. Buck grouses at the television, “Well, he can’t be tired, he just had five days off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Next Up: The Brackets, With No Love for Duke\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next — how many days is March Madness? — I’ll learn a lot about men’s college basketball. I’ll probably even bug Buck to fill out a bracket with me. First time we did it, we were in the top three until Georgetown lost to Kansas: 2008, loyalty over good sense. I love our animated conversations picking the upsets and deciding when we’re going to dump out on Duke, which we inevitably do (apologies to our new senior editor for political coverage, John Myers).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes I won’t be able to help learning it because all conversations with the television during men’s college basketball happen at the volume of the Blue Angels. Other times I’ll wander in to watch a game and Buck, happy to educate me, will run commentary about the players (their height, weight, college record, prospects, personal challenges overcome) and plays (strategy, coach’s strengths and weaknesses, rules of the game, what the ref’s missing), while he’s hand-sewing a quilt or maybe a patch onto his jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Thursday morning alone I learned the following facts, useful in the days ahead:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.villanova.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/jayvaughn_pinkston_697905.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pinkston (JayVaughn\u003c/a>, a ‘Nova forward) usually makes his free throws, though not in the game against Seton: “Aghghghghgh, ya bird-head!” (No, I’m not just making this family-friendly. Buck uses a delightfully broad range of epithets. And he’s as likely to say “phooey-gabooey” as %@$#.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.villanova.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/josh_hart_852448.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hart (Josh\u003c/a>, a ‘Nova guard) usually doesn’t make his free throws, but did.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Commentators reliably don’t know anything: “Of course they’re playing for 1-seed; what the *$&# you talking about?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The word “Bonus” under the team’s score means the team has been fouled by the other team at least seven times for the half, and the team that’s been fouled gets: a) to go immediately to the free-throw line; and, b) bonus free throws.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It’s usually a mistake to dribble away four of the final seven seconds, when you have the ball and are behind and have a timeout left. Although Seton Hall did this and still won, so it’s not necessarily a deadly mistake.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If I watch the game I start swearing, too. (Three seconds to go: Seton Hall inbounds the ball, \u003ca href=\"http://www.shupirates.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/sterling_gibbs_849397.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sterling Gibbs\u003c/a> hits a “step-back jumper” from the top of the key — and yes, I do know where the key is — that drops into the basket as the buzzer sounds. I say, “OH *@#&! How did they let that happen?” Buck says, preternaturally calm, “I just called it. Didn’t I just call it?” Which he had. When \u003ca href=\"http://www.villanova.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/darrun_hilliard_760838.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darrun Hilliard\u003c/a> gave ‘Nova the lead with seven seconds to go, Buck had said, “They can still win it.” It takes some finesse to know who “they” are when you’re hanging with sports people.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Lesson in How to Take a Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s all over, I notice something I really like about sports people: If their team plays badly, they accept the loss. They might be stricken, but they accept it as right that the win went to the team who played best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After arguing with the commentators and coaches and yelling at the players for, oh, let’s say a couple of hours, Buck says, about Gibbs’ game-winning shot, “That was a helluva play.” He pauses. “They played a great game. And we played awful. Awful. I’ll clean up the chickens in the backyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ignore the sacrificial chickens and feel a swell of love for this man, my housemate, landlord and friend. Affordable housing organizer by day, Villanova fan 24-7. And for my nephew and niece, and my sister, and everyone I’ve ever heard accept a crushing defeat while acknowledging the skill of their opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the thing I’ve noticed about sports people …,” I start to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to predict their insanity?” Buck says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, no. It’s easy to predict their insanity. It revolves around the game and is gone when it’s over. Now that you mention it, my insanity is much harder to predict; it revolves around a dream I had, or whether I forgot someone’s birthday, or how long it’s going to take when I finally get around to calling Covered California to be sure my doctor’s on the plan I picked, or any number of things no one else could possibly guess at. 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If Occupy Wall Street had just done brackets for competitive prosecutions of the architects of the 2008 economic collapse, we’d have them all convicted by now. So I figure Buck is trying to record a basketball game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big East Playoff Takes Back Seat to Deadline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First you have to press the button for TV, then power,” I say, “then you have to press cable and then power.” He knows this, but sometimes when he’s focused on something ahead of him in time, he forgets what to do in the present to get there. 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And he’s as likely to say “phooey-gabooey” as %@$#.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.villanova.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/josh_hart_852448.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hart (Josh\u003c/a>, a ‘Nova guard) usually doesn’t make his free throws, but did.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Commentators reliably don’t know anything: “Of course they’re playing for 1-seed; what the *$&# you talking about?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The word “Bonus” under the team’s score means the team has been fouled by the other team at least seven times for the half, and the team that’s been fouled gets: a) to go immediately to the free-throw line; and, b) bonus free throws.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It’s usually a mistake to dribble away four of the final seven seconds, when you have the ball and are behind and have a timeout left. Although Seton Hall did this and still won, so it’s not necessarily a deadly mistake.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If I watch the game I start swearing, too. 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