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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/07/as-stadium-news-of-the-week-legal-manutemporary-insanity/rs6758_181574858-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128794\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-128794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS6758_181574858-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. 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The mayor of Phoenix threw out the first pitch on opening day, and concession stands around the park sell souvenir cups and pins with the Phoenix Muni logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be the only time in the 21st century that an A's stadium transition happens smoothly or amicably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, A's part-owner and managing partner Lew Wolff \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/03/07/as-owner-wolff-explores-temporary.html\" target=\"_blank\">was quoted by the Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> as saying that he'd asked his architects to explore the possibility of building a temporary ballpark for the A's if it became impossible for them to stay at the Oakland Coliseum when their current lease expires at the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way it's a situation most of us have encountered at some point, in moving from one apartment or house to another: What do you do if the new place isn't ready on the day you have to move out of the old one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most obvious solution is the \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080330&content_id=2467286&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy\" target=\"_blank\">Yankee Stadium model\u003c/a>: build the new ballpark next to the old one and move when it's ready. But that may not work for the A's, largely because they share their current home with the Oakland Raiders. This is where it gets to be like a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">15-puzzle\u003c/a> — that's the term for those annoying plastic toys with the numbered squares that you need to shift around to get in the right order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Raiders strike a deal with Oakland to build a new football stadium on the exact footprint of the current Coliseum (which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24037189/raiders-stadium-site-preference-could-hasten-exit\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly their preference\u003c/a>), then the A's might have to find a temporary home while their new ballpark is built. The Raiders would have the same problem, since there's no way the construction could take place in a single NFL off-season. But they would have the option of temporarily playing at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A's owner Lew Wolff floats a new idea: a temporary stadium if the team can't renew its lease at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the A's could play a season or two at AT&T Park. San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. And building a safe facility in a seismically active region isn't any easier simply because the structure is temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of San Jose's legal battle with Major League Baseball shifts to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that last year, San Jose got tired of waiting for baseball and its commissioner, Bud Selig, to make a decision on whether the A's would be allowed to move to San Jose, and filed a lawsuit. Last October, a federal court judge in San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the suit's challenge\u003c/a> to Major League Baseball's \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust exemption\u003c/a> (a second part of the suit, alleging that baseball officials broke state law by interfering with the city's contract with the A's, was allowed to proceed). U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte ruled, in effect, that it's up to Congress, not the courts, to deal with the antitrust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city appealed Whyte's antitrust ruling and last week filed an 83-page brief arguing its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get more perspective on how the city is going to press its antitrust claim, I talked to lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm\u003c/strong>: San Jose appears to be taking the position that the scope of the antitrust exemption is a question of fact, for a jury to decide. That's pretty unusual. It's not something that San Jose argued in the district court. I can understand from a strategic perspective why San Jose would do that, because it allows the court of appeal, if they're so inclined, to take an intermediate step and send the case back to the district court. And then it would open it up for discovery, back in the district court, which would lead to a whole range of documents and sworn testimony from MLB executives. I've never seen that argument before, and it strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen: \u003c/strong> That's been a theory when people talk about this case — that MLB will do anything to avoid discovery, that they don't want to open up their books, that Bud Selig doesn't want to go into court. Do you think there is that much that's shocking or proprietary about baseball's inner workings that they want to conceal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> I've always heard that speculation, too — that not just MLB, but the individual owners would much prefer to keep their financials private, and the owners would pressure MLB to get rid of the lawsuit, down the road if it ever came to that. There's the additional pressure point, for the league as a whole, of putting the antitrust exemption at risk. Major League Baseball is the only one of the four professional sports that still hangs on to this exemption from antitrust law, and in particular as it relates to team location and relocation. MLB doesn't want to lose that, and has had to fight for it in Congress and in the courts. They're a long way from having to give up documents or losing that exemption, but I see both those as pressure points. Which is why the way the district court case played out really couldn't have been any better for Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> By dismissing it quickly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Yes. Now San Jose was successful in getting an expedited appeal, and I was quite surprised that the 9th Circuit agreed to do that. So what normally would take a year to 18 months, between the briefings, and being assigned to a panel, and having oral arguments -- that process is going to move along much more quickly in the 9th Circuit, and we're likely to get at least an initial decision sometime this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> So do you have a guess about what's likely to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Ultimately I think the 9th Circuit will affirm the district court's decision (to dismiss San Jose's case). But it will be interesting to see, if they affirm, how aggressive they might be on whether they think the law ought to be changed and whether the case law ought to be overturned, to set it up so that the Supreme Court might be interested in taking it. What's so interesting about this is that events on the ground have changed. 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San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128777\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/07/bocce-at-social-clubs-keeps-older-italians-tied-to-their-roots-but-younger-members-are-scarce/bocce1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128777\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-128777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/BOCCE1-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Lencioni (right) and other members of San Mateo's Peninsula Italian American Social Club during weekly bocce league play. (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Lencioni (right) and other members of San Mateo's Peninsula Italian American Social Club during weekly bocce league play. (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/138478528&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sport of bocce ball is played all over the world. In Northern California, it has traditionally been an Italian game, but as the community of Italian immigrants continues to shrink, one San Mateo social club is struggling to keep the tradition alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday nights it’s league play at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.peninsulasocialclub.org/\">Peninsula Italian American Social Club\u003c/a>. Two dozen people fill the echo-prone hall that houses the club’s two bocce courts. One wall is painted to look like the view from a Tuscan veranda -- with stone archways and rolling hills. The other is covered with team photos dating back to the ‘70s when the bocce league first got started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight, Nerina DiBella’s team is winning. She stands at one end of a court made of sand and crushed oyster shells that’s a little shorter than a bowling lane. “Come on, Bruno! Come on, come on!” she shouts, bracing as her teammate takes a shot. It’s green team versus red team, and DiBella is watching Bruno try to roll his green balls closer to the pallino – the little white ball that’s their target. “It’s a good one,” she says. “He’s going to make it. Done!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teams play year-round at the club. These aren’t pros. In fact, most of the players are in their 70s, and they don’t play for big prizes. They play for fun -- mostly. “Sometimes you play for a dollar here and you’d think their life was riding on it,” says Joseph Lencioni, aka Joe, the resident jokester. “They get down on their knees and they’re checking it and they’re like, ‘Don’t touch it,’ and oh boy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Conti runs the league. “Just because you’re Italian doesn’t make you a good bocce player, let me tell you,” he says, “It’s like any other game – either you have it or you don’t.” Being Italian does help get you into this social club. When it was started in the ‘30s it was called the New Deal Italian American Federation. At first they held meetings in members’ basements. Now it’s mostly a place where people socialize at dinners and cultural events.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Players say the social club keeps them tied to their roots, to their families and to their dwindling Italian-American community. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mario and his wife, Nella, were born in Italy and grew up in the Bay Area. Nella Conti remembers the South San Francisco of her childhood as a tight-knit Italian community. The city was completely Italian, she says, “It was like being in Italy almost. It was great.” Mario Conti remembers it the same way. “You go to the bank, everyone spoke Italian,” he says. “Just like now you walk downtown South San Francisco, everyone speaks Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contis say the social club keeps them tied to their roots, to their families and to their dwindling Italian-American community here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alberto Biancalana, who’s originally from Lucca, Italy, this club is one of the best in the Bay Area. He points out that the club has more than 800 members, and it’s just one of many in the area. But they’re all in trouble if young people don’t show interest. “If the young people don’t come in, we are an endangered species,” he says. “If the young people don’t carry on with the tradition, what are you gonna do? Everything’s gonna end, see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on this night, there were no young players in sight, but Biancalana is hopeful that it will change. “I bet you my son would like to play if he ever felt like coming here to try,” he says. “Because that’s what it takes-- it takes a little bit to try and then you get hooked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nerina DiBella watches as her teammate is inches from hitting the pallino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got 2 points now!” she says. “This is it -- it’s game! We won both games. We did it, Bruno!”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/474733245.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-127769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/474733245-640x435.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's infielder Eric Sogard, the face that sunk Buster Posey. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A's infielder Eric Sogard, the face that sunk Buster Posey. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6:50 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Well, the results are in, and in the end Oakland A's fans could not out-tweet New York Mets partisans in the \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll. 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(And yes, of course, \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/02/28/as-fans-claim-conspiracy-as-sogard-narrowly-misses-face-of-mlb-title/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracy theories\u003c/a> have emerged to explain Wright's win.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We believe on perfectly objective grounds that Sogard's visage still emanates an irresistible charm, a slightly goofy, enthusiastic, kidlike radiance undimmed by this setback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7:45 a.m. Thursday Update: \u003c/strong> Yes, I am going to sit here with a straight face and tell you that this is news: Followers of the Oakland Athletics — a franchise known for its on-field overachievements, passionate fan base and tepid attendance — have made bespectacled infielder Eric Sogard, a certified non-celebrity, a finalist in \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" contest. Because Sogard wears glasses, A's fans have dubbed him a nerd and his home plate appearances are accompanied by the scoreboard legend \"Nerd Power.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sogard is in the finals against New York Mets third baseman David Wright. Fans vote by Twitter at the Face of MLB site linked above (or, look, \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">here's another link\u003c/a>!). If this is the sort of thing you're interested in, you have until 5 a.m. PST Friday to vote. Currently, the vote is a dead heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's remarkable in the Sogard \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">Face of MLB\u003c/a>\" saga is that he has outpolled a series of much-better-known players — the Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo, the Colorado Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki and the San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey — Buster Posey, for crying out loud — on his way to the finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now back to the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:30 p.m. Wednesday Update:\u003c/strong> Well, just to close the loop: Not that it means much, Oakland fans, but your A's cruised in their Cactus League opener with the Giants, 10-5. We will take note of two ugly (but also perhaps meaningless) pitching performances for the Giants: Starter Yusmeiro Petit got knocked around for four runs in the first, and reliever Sergio Romo got hammered for six runs on seven hits in the fourth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and there was this: The Athletics' Josh Reddick made \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/oak/as-josh-reddick-astounds-with-two-dazzling-catches-to-rob-giants-michael-morse?ymd=20140226&content_id=68383732&vkey=news_oak\" target=\"_blank\">two ridiculous catches in right\u003c/a>, both times reaching over a 10-foot fence to rob the Giants' Michael Moore of home runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other news:\u003c/strong> The race between Eric Sogard of the A's and the Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista to make it to the final of \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll is looking like a cliff-hanger with just six hours of voting to go. Sogard led Bautista 68-32 percent Wednesday afternoon. Tonight that margin is down to 53-47 percent. Not that we care. At all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's are launching spring training play this afternoon at the Giants' home field in Scottsdale, Ariz. You can divine the desperate import of this inaugural Cactus League contest by the two starters for the game. Long reliever \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chaveje01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Chavez\u003c/a> took the mound for Oakland. Non-household-name \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/petityu01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Yusmeiro Petit\u003c/a>, a 29-year-old journeyman starter who compiled a 4-1 record with the Giants last year, including a shutout, started for San Francisco. (Petit didn't fare so well, giving up four runs in the top of the first, the only inning he worked.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the two teams have already been face to face in their first real confrontation of the 2014 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. The Athletics' Eric Sogard, a popular, bespectacled infielder, came out on top of Giants' catcher and 2012 National League Most Valuable Player Buster Posey in the just-for-fun \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow, the smooth-fielding and sometimes-clutch-hitting Sogard outpolled the godlike Posey 55 percent to 45 percent in the contest. One theory is that A's fans are conducting a well-organized underground campaign in the vote-by-Twitter contest. Another is that Giants' fans are really not so plugged in and really couldn't be bothered to engage in such an undignified popularity contest (they'll wait for the All-Star Game voting to do that). Those propositions are not mutually exclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lean toward the power of Sogard's glasses to win the hearts of fans who want a regular guy to win something for once. Whatever the explanation, the grinning Sogard is currently in the Face of Major League Baseball semifinals against the \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-27T06:39:50+00:00\">smiling\u003c/del> stern-faced Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays. With voting continuing through 5 a.m. PST Thursday, Sogard is currently drawing 66 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever wins that semifinal will face David Wright of the New York Mets in the Face final.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now back to the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:30 p.m. Wednesday Update:\u003c/strong> Well, just to close the loop: Not that it means much, Oakland fans, but your A's cruised in their Cactus League opener with the Giants, 10-5. We will take note of two ugly (but also perhaps meaningless) pitching performances for the Giants: Starter Yusmeiro Petit got knocked around for four runs in the first, and reliever Sergio Romo got hammered for six runs on seven hits in the fourth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and there was this: The Athletics' Josh Reddick made \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/oak/as-josh-reddick-astounds-with-two-dazzling-catches-to-rob-giants-michael-morse?ymd=20140226&content_id=68383732&vkey=news_oak\" target=\"_blank\">two ridiculous catches in right\u003c/a>, both times reaching over a 10-foot fence to rob the Giants' Michael Moore of home runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other news:\u003c/strong> The race between Eric Sogard of the A's and the Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista to make it to the final of \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll is looking like a cliff-hanger with just six hours of voting to go. Sogard led Bautista 68-32 percent Wednesday afternoon. Tonight that margin is down to 53-47 percent. Not that we care. At all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's are launching spring training play this afternoon at the Giants' home field in Scottsdale, Ariz. You can divine the desperate import of this inaugural Cactus League contest by the two starters for the game. Long reliever \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chaveje01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Chavez\u003c/a> took the mound for Oakland. Non-household-name \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/petityu01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Yusmeiro Petit\u003c/a>, a 29-year-old journeyman starter who compiled a 4-1 record with the Giants last year, including a shutout, started for San Francisco. (Petit didn't fare so well, giving up four runs in the top of the first, the only inning he worked.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the two teams have already been face to face in their first real confrontation of the 2014 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. The Athletics' Eric Sogard, a popular, bespectacled infielder, came out on top of Giants' catcher and 2012 National League Most Valuable Player Buster Posey in the just-for-fun \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow, the smooth-fielding and sometimes-clutch-hitting Sogard outpolled the godlike Posey 55 percent to 45 percent in the contest. One theory is that A's fans are conducting a well-organized underground campaign in the vote-by-Twitter contest. Another is that Giants' fans are really not so plugged in and really couldn't be bothered to engage in such an undignified popularity contest (they'll wait for the All-Star Game voting to do that). Those propositions are not mutually exclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lean toward the power of Sogard's glasses to win the hearts of fans who want a regular guy to win something for once. Whatever the explanation, the grinning Sogard is currently in the Face of Major League Baseball semifinals against the \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-27T06:39:50+00:00\">smiling\u003c/del> stern-faced Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays. With voting continuing through 5 a.m. PST Thursday, Sogard is currently drawing 66 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever wins that semifinal will face David Wright of the New York Mets in the Face final.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/26/127782/rs4896_curryleewarriors-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-127883\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-127883\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS4896_CurryLeeWarriors-scr-e1393461408508.jpg\" alt=\" Stephen Curry #30 and David Lee #10 of the Golden State Warriors embrace after losing to the San Antonio Spurs in Game Six of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NBA Playoffs on May 16, 2013. (StephenDunn/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry, left, and David Lee of the Golden State Warriors embrace after losing to the San Antonio Spurs in Game Six of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NBA Playoffs on May 16, 2013. (StephenDunn/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca title=\"Warriors versus Trail Blazers \" href=\"<a%20href=\">Golden State Warriors game\u003c/a> against the Portland Trail Blazers last November, the sold-out crowd chanted M-V-P, M-V-P, as Stephen Curry stepped to the free throw line. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Q-NNV8gRc\">It's been going on for years\u003c/a>, and it is not exactly an uncommon occurrence to hear a partisan crowd chant for the team's superstar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://stats.nba.com/playerProfile.html?PlayerID=201939\">Curry\u003c/a> is a true superstar. As I sat there in the Oracle Arena that night, I even chimed in on the chanting. I knew he wasn't going to win the league's best player award (he hadn't even made the 2013 All-Star team), but still, Curry had captured my heart. And I wanted to chant M-V-P until I could believe it. And I almost did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the BART ride home (after a crushing defeat) with a train car full of Warriors fans, I ran through scenarios on how Curry could win the NBA's Most Valuable Player award this season. Essentially, I was trying to rule out a few of the NBA's biggest names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant started scoring like a madman, chalking up \u003ca href=\"http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400489565\">12 30-point games in a row\u003c/a>. In the process he matched some of the greatest players of all time. And in one game became the front-runner for this year's MVP award. Against the Miami Heat, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/games/20140129/OKCMIA/gameinfo.html#\">Durant scored 33\u003c/a> points, with many coming while the best player in the world, LeBron James, was guarding him. James was just outmatched guarding Durant. But still, \u003cem>King James\u003c/em> scored 34 points in that loss to the Thunder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing about MVP is that you don't have to be the best player in the world to win it. Otherwise, LeBron James would win it every year. He is the best player in the league. And if your life rested on one player currently in the NBA making a shot or winning a game, James is the guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much so that fans, pundits and maybe even players just take him for granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some years, there are players who rise up, capture our attention and lead their teams to victories, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2011-05-03/its-official-bulls-g-derrick-rose-is-nba-mvp\">Derrick Rose for the Chicago Bulls in the 2010-11 season \u003c/a>or Durant this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So under that thinking, Curry has a chance. His team is clearly better with him playing. He makes other guys better. And he puts up top-notch statistics. But the Warriors won't lead the league in wins like Rose's Bulls did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could a little respect from another superstar inspire an MVP swing voter to Curry? The aforementioned \u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/durant-calls-curry-best-shooter-ever-play\">Kevin Durant recently tweeted: \u003cem>Steph any day, best shooter to ever play\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> (Your opinion on that often depends on how old you are.) As nice as that was for Durant to say, he didn't say best player or even best point guard. He just said best shooter. Meaningful? Yes. Impactful? Apart from one day's worth of material for screaming pundits on television and radio shows, not really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is Stephen Curry an MVP candidate? Yes, a candidate, but he's not going to win the award this time around. It is hard to write that, especially because there are a couple dozen games left to play. And I want to point out all the reasons he should, but I am not sure I have enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Kevin Durant recently tweeted: \u003cem>Steph any day, best shooter to ever play\u003c/em>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Through 54 games, he leads the league in \u003ca href=\"http://stats.nba.com/leadersGrid.html?Season=2013-14&PerMode=PerGame&Scope=S&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&StatCategory=AST&pageNo=1&rowsPerPage=25\">assists per game\u003c/a>, three pointers made and is seventh in points. And he did make this year's All-Star team. But critics point out that \u003ca href=\"http://stats.nba.com/leadersGrid.html?Season=2013-14&PerMode=PerGame&Scope=S&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&StatCategory=TOV&pageNo=1&rowsPerPage=25\">he leads the league in turnovers\u003c/a>. Of course, Kevin Durant is second in turnovers and LeBron James is fifth. And if you're going to be \u003cem>the man\u003c/em>, then you have to have the ball. And if you have the ball often enough, you're going to turn it over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But MVP isn't about stats alone. The award is not voted on in a vacuum. It also matters how the team plays. Rarely do athletes in any sport on losing teams win MVP awards, even if they might deserve it. The problem for Curry is that the Warriors aren't quite good enough right now to have him in the conversation. Some days the team is exciting\u003cbr>\nand fun to watch, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/games/20140130/LACGSW/gameinfo.html\">January beat-down of the Los Angeles Clippers.\u003c/a> Other days, it is mind-numbingly awful basketball, like the this month's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/games/20140204/CHAGSW/gameinfo.html\">home loss to the Charlotte Bobcats\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is 35-22 as of Feb. 26, and is currently the sixth seed in the strong Western Conference. (The top eight teams from each conference make the playoffs.) By contrast, Durant's team is in first place in the West and James' squad is second in the East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This whole post is, in a way, unfair to Stephen Curry. He's not LeBron James or Kevin Durant. He never claimed to be. Curry is a pretty humble guy and personable, too. His postgame interviews are filled with wry little smiles, as if one of his teammates is behind the reporter making a funny face. More importantly, Curry is about team (as are James and Durant, by the way). As mentioned, he leads the league in assists, giving the ball to a teammate to score, not that Curry doesn't take his fair share, too, of course. He broke the record last year for \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkQ3ht_MFI\">most 3-pointers made in NBA history.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, as the Warriors continue through the season, there is a blossoming of talent. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Warriors-bench-comes-up-big-in-win-over-Pistons-5264259.php\">Some players are coming off the bench \u003c/a>and contributing much more that earlier in the season. That was desperately needed. And when the team is in rhythm, it can roll over even the best teams in the NBA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm partial here because I love watching the Warriors, especially at Oracle Arena (or \u003ca href=\"http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g32810-d2024006-r164101471-Oracle_Arena-Oakland_California.html\">the Roaracle Arena\u003c/a>). Fans there hang on every shot and pass. The fans deserve a winner. And that's my big hope: Curry leads a team full of talent to success. 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The aforementioned \u003ca href=\"http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/durant-calls-curry-best-shooter-ever-play\">Kevin Durant recently tweeted: \u003cem>Steph any day, best shooter to ever play\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> (Your opinion on that often depends on how old you are.) As nice as that was for Durant to say, he didn't say best player or even best point guard. He just said best shooter. Meaningful? Yes. Impactful? Apart from one day's worth of material for screaming pundits on television and radio shows, not really.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is Stephen Curry an MVP candidate? Yes, a candidate, but he's not going to win the award this time around. It is hard to write that, especially because there are a couple dozen games left to play. And I want to point out all the reasons he should, but I am not sure I have enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Kevin Durant recently tweeted: \u003cem>Steph any day, best shooter to ever play\u003c/em>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Through 54 games, he leads the league in \u003ca href=\"http://stats.nba.com/leadersGrid.html?Season=2013-14&PerMode=PerGame&Scope=S&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&StatCategory=AST&pageNo=1&rowsPerPage=25\">assists per game\u003c/a>, three pointers made and is seventh in points. And he did make this year's All-Star team. But critics point out that \u003ca href=\"http://stats.nba.com/leadersGrid.html?Season=2013-14&PerMode=PerGame&Scope=S&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&StatCategory=TOV&pageNo=1&rowsPerPage=25\">he leads the league in turnovers\u003c/a>. Of course, Kevin Durant is second in turnovers and LeBron James is fifth. And if you're going to be \u003cem>the man\u003c/em>, then you have to have the ball. 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By contrast, Durant's team is in first place in the West and James' squad is second in the East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This whole post is, in a way, unfair to Stephen Curry. He's not LeBron James or Kevin Durant. He never claimed to be. Curry is a pretty humble guy and personable, too. His postgame interviews are filled with wry little smiles, as if one of his teammates is behind the reporter making a funny face. More importantly, Curry is about team (as are James and Durant, by the way). As mentioned, he leads the league in assists, giving the ball to a teammate to score, not that Curry doesn't take his fair share, too, of course. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-2000.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-2000-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area Curling Club instructor Joseph Tang shows aspiring curler Nancy Carruth of San Francisco the basics at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area Curling Club instructor Joseph Tang shows aspiring curler Nancy Carruth of San Francisco the basics at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been listening to public radio during the Olympics, you may have noticed a lot of stories about curling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PRI’s “The World” has offered “\u003ca href=\"http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/canadian-curling-legend-going-gold-coach-chinas-curling-team-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Canadian Curling Legend Is Going for Gold as Coach of China’s Curling Team\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-22/norways-curling-team-brings-its-fancy-pants-back-sochi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norway’s Curling Team Brings Its Fancy Pants Back for Sochi\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR’s “Morning Edition” has aired “\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/01/23/264884316/7-facts-and-3-gifs-hellooo-curling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 facts and 4 GIFs: Hellooooo Curling\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/02/18/278952312/curlers-try-to-get-younger-people-interested-in-the-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School Students Are Invited to Try Curling\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why, you may ask, do public radio reporters and editors love curling? \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s a real easy sport to get started, and be decent. It’s a real hard sport to get good at.’\u003ccite>— Brian Davidson,\u003cbr>\nCurling club member\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In part, I think it’s because curling seems more approachable than some of the other Olympic events. Although many of the longtime members of the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club I spoke with are from Canada or states along the U.S.-Canada border, and thus grew up with some exposure to the sport, even Olympic-level curlers don’t need to have started training when they were toddlers, the way that top figure skaters or snowboarders do. There’s no such thing as a professional curler in the United States — the Olympic squads will return from Sochi to their regular jobs, such as teaching school, working in doctors’ offices and managing restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, I think we’re influenced by social media. My Twitter stream has been full of comments from people who have stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to watch the live stream of a curling match between Switzerland and Russia. KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief Scott Detrow even found a match playing on one of the TVs at the California Emergency Management Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also — and I did not realize this until I went to record a clinic for beginners — curling is quite possibly the most radiophonic of the winter sports. It combines the interesting percussive sounds of sweeping with the haunting rumble of stones gliding over the ice. And then there’s the yelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Davidson, one of the curling club’s senior members, informed the novices in attendance: ” ‘Sweep! Go! Hurry hard! Hard!’ All of those mean ‘sweep.’ Usually, as a team, you decide on what the commands are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another club member, Ryan Alvarado, had heard a very polite variation. “One of my skips said, ‘Yes, yes.’ And one said, ‘Yes, please. Yes, please. Yes, please.’ So you knew it was him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being able to pick out the voice of your skip, or team leader, from a confusing hubbub of other voices yelling at different teams is part of the art of curling. The skip is down at one end of the sheet of ice, and the rest of the team is at the other end — one throwing the stone and two others sweeping the ice in its immediate path, hoping to affect its speed and trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/135918632&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty good at yelling and being loud,” San Jose native Sergio Soria told me. He’d been meaning to come to a learn-to-curl clinic over the last several Olympiads, and finally got around to it this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Baptista made the trek in to the Oakland Ice Center from the Central Valley. “My wife got me, for Christmas, a present to come here with my buddy and go curling,” he said. “Because I’ve been watching it on TV for years, and I just really love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Carruth of San Francisco likes the Olympics, too, but she and her husband were motivated by a challenge thrown down by her Canadian relatives. “They called us and said, ‘We signed you up for a mixed doubles bonspiel (curling tournament) in April,’ ” she said. “So we figured we’d better come try it first, before we have to go compete!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime club member Jay Diamond of Menlo Park said the homey simplicity of the curling gear can be deceptive. “Everyone sees the brooms and they think it’s light housekeeping,” he said. “But it’s actually interval cardio. It’s a really good workout. Two hours of heavy sweeping is as good as any day I spend in the gym.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t have to be a gym rat, his fellow club member Kate Garfinkel said. “Anyone can do it. We have people of all ages and body types. On Friday nights we have two middle-schoolers curling with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Davidson put it this way: “It’s a real easy sport to get started, and be decent. It’s a real hard sport to get good at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127151\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-clinic-320.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-clinic-320.jpg\" alt=\"Wannabe curlers got an introduction to the sport from Bay Area Curling Club members at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wannabe curlers got an introduction to the sport from Bay Area Curling Club members at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, if you just want to stay at the decent level, club member Jesus Barajas said, that’s fine. As long as you’re having fun, your fellow curlers will not judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You spend two hours on the ice, and it’s sort of a chess match, a lot of strategy,” he said. “Then afterwards you follow the First Rule of Curling: Take your beverage and talk through with your teammates how the game went. And then you can talk about the rest of life, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, no curling clinic, or story about curling, is complete without that famous First Rule of Curling: “Winner buys beverages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If previous groups of Olympic-season curling fans are any judge, about 20 percent of those who show up at a learn-to-curl event will come back for more lessons, and half of those will stay with the club for the long haul. Brian Davidson said the growth has been steady enough to allow the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacurling.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club\u003c/a> to secure its own dedicated ice facility, which will open later this year. Right now, like most American clubs outside the traditional curling heartlands of the Upper Midwest and Northeast, the local curlers buy time at ice arenas, competing with hockey teams and skaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dedicated ice for league curlers is the Nirvana to which one aspires,” said Davidson. “It’s the right kind of ice, so it curls very nicely. You’re able to leave your stones on the ice, you have locker rooms, you have your own bar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, their own bar. Where the First Rule will be applied strictly, no doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dedicated facility may help aspiring Bay Area Olympic curlers. Davidson said one member, who started at a learn-to-curl clinic several years ago, has made it to Olympic trials. But in order to find practice time, she had to fly up to Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The club is offering \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacurling.com/intro-to-curling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn-to-curl clinics\u003c/a> in Oakland and San Jose through the middle of March.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He was a prep school star at \u003ca href=\"http://ehs.alamedausd.ca.schoolloop.com/\">Encinal High School\u003c/a> in Alameda. He would bounce around a couple community colleges before landing at \u003ca href=\"https://www.unlv.edu/\">UNLV\u003c/a>. There he would average 29.1 points per game his senior year, second in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota drafted him with the fifth overall pick in 1993. He would make the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nba.com/history/awards_allrookieteams.html\">All-Rookie First Team\u003c/a> by averaging more than 19 points that season. He was a scorer, who had the “it” factor: His explosiveness on the court was fun to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rider was explosive off the court, too. And he would pay the price. As he bounced around the league from Minnesota to Portland to Atlanta to Los Angeles to Denver (all in the space of a nine-year career), trouble popped up along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \u003ca href=\"http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1997/NBA-suspends-Rider-three-games-for-spitting-at-fan/id-1c3917a257becbe8d688e7dd27863d9e\">spit on a fan in Detroit.\u003c/a> He was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/isaiah-rider/featured/2\">accused of assaulting a female bar manager\u003c/a>. And he was notoriously late to team meetings and events. Sometimes \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/28/sports/sp-18244\">he fought with his own teammates and the league\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I reached out to Rider to talk about the dunk, life after basketball and his \u003ca href=\"http://skyriderfoundation.org/\">foundation to get kids active in extracurricular activities.\u003c/a> But I never heard back. I am not sure what I wanted to say to him or ask him. I suppose I wanted to tell him about the moment I saw him do the “East Bay Funk Dunk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I am not excusing his bad behavior, I just wanted to let him know that there was this kid in \u003ca href=\"http://www.wv.gov/Pages/default.aspx\">West Virginia\u003c/a> (as well as kids and adults all over) whose jaw dropped. He already knew that, though, I’m sure. Anyway, I called my best friend, Michael, when I saw it and neither one of us could believe it. It was pure joy (in someone else’s incredible accomplishment).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s sports. At their least, they give us a sense of community and distraction from the real problems in our real lives. At their best, they make us believe anything is possible, even if that feeling is soon squashed by a brutal world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Rider’s dunk 20 years ago didn’t change the landscape of sports. It’s perhaps not even the best dunk in dunk contest history. It didn’t guarantee him a long and successful career, even though he played for \u003ca href=\"http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rideris01.html\">nine seasons, averaging nearly 17 points a game.\u003c/a> But for me, a boy barely in his teens watching that night, it was the extension of a childhood naiveté that those we idolize are perfect and everything we want to be. He took the pressure of the competition and delivered. The crowd roared with approval. 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