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But she had a harder time with No. 2, No. 2 being me, and finally opted for our big, sure-handed but quite gay first sacker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nope,” I said. “It’s me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What came next caused a minor identity crisis. “Really?\" she said, crinkling up her nose. \u003cem>You\u003c/em>?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it goes in the world of gay softball, where traditional stereotypes about sexual orientation and its preconceptions survive about as long as a soft line drive to the pitcher. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been thinking of this incident because of the recent buzz over the possibility of an active professional gay athlete imminently declaring his sexuality (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/sports/hockey/nhl-announces-initiative-in-support-of-gay-athletes.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/threads_and_laces/2013/04/nike-has-a-proposal-for-gay-athletes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/maleathletecomingout.html?33426\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>). The speculation started a couple of weeks ago, with an announcement by former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, an \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/brendon-ayanbadejo-gay-rights-usa-today_n_2631729.html\" target=\"_blank\">outspoken supporter of gay rights\u003c/a>, that up to four gay NFL players might come out. \"They're trying to be organized so they can come out on the same day together,\" he said. \"It would be a monumental day if a handful or a few guys come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Indeed it would. Though Ayanbadejo later \u003ca href=\"http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/07/ayanbadejo-now-says-four-gay-players-arent-considering-coming-out/\" target=\"_blank\">backed away a bit from his assertion\u003c/a>, the introduction of the very idea of actual current top athletes who are gay, as opposed to the extremely logical speculation that yes, of course some are, has created a certain excitement, and perhaps even washes away some of the ignorance that continues to ooze out even in this \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.itgetsbetter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">It Gets Better\u003c/a>\" age. You'll recall 49ers cornerback \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/chris-culliver-and-homophobia-in-sports-a-discussion/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Culliver's pre-Super Bowl comments\u003c/a> in January, when asked if he'd ever been approached by gay teammates: \"No, we don't got no gay people on the team,\" he said. \"They gotta get up out of here if they do. ... Nah, can't be in the locker room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comment was more about out-and-out disdain than an assessment of gay athletes' abilities (Culliver later apologized), but I myself have had a number of otherwise open-minded straight friends over the years make directly for the jokes when informed that I play in a gay league. And I should also say that their ignorance at one time mirrored my own. Since I had played baseball in high school, a friend's invitation to join his team in the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsl.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Gay Softball League\u003c/a> immediately prompted the notion that I was going to dominate, since surely everyone threw like a girl. Several years and a couple of benchings later, of that notion I had been disabused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SFGSL: 41 years and counting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league, in which former gay major leaguer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/11/10/premiere-tonight-the-glenn-burke-story/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Burke\u003c/a> once played, has been a haven for gay athletes for 41 years. But it's so welcoming of straight players that it got into hot water a few years back when a top World Series squad was disqualified for having too many heterosexuals on the roster. (That became the subject of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Not-gay-enough-softball-players-settle-suit-2297778.php\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a>.) Teams, including those in two women's divisions, are grouped by skill level, and the upper divisions are extremely competitive. Many of my teammates have played for decades, and lots of them are softball junkies, participating in multiple leagues, hustling off to weekend tournaments. More than one player has told me they've had a relationship go down the drain due to their preoccupation with the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I really had no idea. This was more than an athletic league. It was an entire subculture. A few years back, I interviewed one teammate, a five-tool outfielder with tremendous opposite field power, about what gay softball meant to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time I didn’t know anyone who was gay and who played sports,” he said. “I had my gay friends I’d go out with and my straight friends I’d play sports with. It was hard because a lot of gay guys said by playing sports I was trying to be straight. But when a friend told me about gay softball, I went to a game and it was like, 'Oh my goodness, all these guys play softball?' It was a whole different world. Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic, and that’s how I had been feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's actually a whole network of gay sports leagues in the city. Softball, tennis, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">swimming\u003c/a> (even \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Synchro/Schedule.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">synchronized swimming\u003c/a>). My friend Mike from the SFGSL has been playing in some of these for years, and he's coached in both gay and non-gay leagues. When I asked him what it was like for him to play in a \"straight league,\" he took me to task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually don't understand the labeling of gay, lesbian, straight to describe an athlete,\" he said. \"What does sexual orientation have to do with it? I feel when labels are being used it's due to insecurities, by either gays or straights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gay team, straight players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One team in the SFGSL, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesfrenegades.com/The_SF_Renegades/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Renegades\u003c/a>, actually has just four gay players; the other 11 are straight. John Steen, the team's pitcher, said he had concerns at first when he learned of that ratio, but was so inspired by the bonding that's developed between team members of different sexual orientations that he decided to make a \u003ca href=\"http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-renegades-what-team-are-you-on/x/835504\" target=\"_blank\">documentary\u003c/a> about the experience. The film will focus on the relationship between gay and straight men on and off the field.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/64459242?color=f00010\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I [asked] a bunch of friends before I had the idea,\" Steen said, \"do you have any straight male friends that you get together with and go have a drink with? And none of them did. And I’d never had that myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said the friendships he's developed with his straight teammates grew slowly, beginning with a team brunch. \"We had a great time and after ... I kind of wanted to ask them if they wanted to watch the Giants game. But I was too afraid to do that. So I texted one of them, and four of them came over. So I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked one of the straight guys on the team if he wanted to go to the Giants game with me on Tuesday, because it’s my birthday,\" Steen said. \"And I thought, 'Oh my God, a straight guy to hang out with on my birthday.' Stuff like that is happening organically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said there are still gay players in the league who believe in the \"70-30\" rule, which means 70 percent of the team must be gay or bisexual, a regulation that is enforced at the Gay Softball World Series. But he said he has not been able to find anyone who will say so on camera for his documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Are they going to be too aggressive?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My teammate Tony Robbins is a former league official who has been playing for about 10 years. He says he was wary at first when a handful of us straight guys signed on to the squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh f***, this is gonna be nasty,' \" he said. \"It started out kind of bouncy at first. ... The warmup period takes a little while. Maybe gay guys are thinking: 'Are they going to be too aggressive?' [But] I’ve only had one encounter where a straight player got way too aggressive. He just jumped on the umpire, which is a total no-no in our league.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's actually one of the reasons I like playing in the SFGSL. There's a big emphasis on sportsmanship, and if your testosterone happens to get the best of you in terms of your behavior, then that's going to be a problem. I've played in a lot of non-gay leagues where the ultra-competitive attitude borders on the rabid. I mean, I like to win, too, yet I have never felt the need or even the compulsion to trash-talk opponents when there are metal bats in proximity. There's very little if any of that in the SFGSL; at the end of each game, in fact, teams are required to shake hands and thank their opponents with a cheer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">My hope is someone will come out and everybody will go ... 'So? Can you play?' \" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't mean that the competition isn't fierce. Here's a 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.outsports.com/2010/7/18/4050136/a-straight-guy-loves-his-gay-softball-team\" target=\"_blank\">post\u003c/a> from a straight player who played in Boston's gay league. He writes, \"(T)he better teams in the gay league would absolutely wipe the floor with the straight teams I’ve played on and against.\" That has been my experience in San Francisco's league as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a perception that all gays are not as good as straights,\" one gay player told me. \"That's not true. There are some straight players I've played with who would not make some of the gay teams I've been on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike, who has moved comfortably between gay and non-gay leagues, said he's found that even gay players automatically assume straight players have more ability. \"When gay athletes do that, then they're just reinforcing what straight, insecure athletes think of gay athletes -- which is they're a lesser player,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, said John Steen, a lot of gay men have had bad experiences with athletics, and the wounds can run deep. He recounted the time when he'd first joined the SFGSL and his team decided to also play in San Francisco's city league. \"Which was all straight,\" he said. \"And we got demolished every game. A lot of guys on our team had a real hard time being beaten by straight guys like that. I feel like that’s internalized homophobia. A lot of gay guys growing up had a lot of issues with sports. ... This generation is sort of different, though. A lot more are coming out earlier and a lot are quite athletic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awaiting a pro \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the long-awaited announcement by a gay active NFL or MLB player, Mike said he isn't waiting with bated breath. \"Absolutely not a big deal,\" he said. \"I idolize athletes for their body of work and not their personal life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both John Steen and Tony Robbins disagreed. \"I do think it would be a very big deal if that happened,\" said Steen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbins said a pro coming out would be important for younger gay men. \"There are younger gays out there who are looking up to these sports players, saying, 'Hey look, they’re playing with all these guys, so I can play this game, too.' They can look at it as, 'I have a chance, I don’t have to be blacklisted because I’m gay.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is someone will come out and everybody will go ... 'So? Can you play?' This is a professional sport, I’m looking at qualities of what you can do on the field, not who you’re sleeping with.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been thinking of this incident because of the recent buzz over the possibility of an active professional gay athlete imminently declaring his sexuality (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/sports/hockey/nhl-announces-initiative-in-support-of-gay-athletes.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/threads_and_laces/2013/04/nike-has-a-proposal-for-gay-athletes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/maleathletecomingout.html?33426\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>). The speculation started a couple of weeks ago, with an announcement by former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, an \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/brendon-ayanbadejo-gay-rights-usa-today_n_2631729.html\" target=\"_blank\">outspoken supporter of gay rights\u003c/a>, that up to four gay NFL players might come out. \"They're trying to be organized so they can come out on the same day together,\" he said. \"It would be a monumental day if a handful or a few guys come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Indeed it would. Though Ayanbadejo later \u003ca href=\"http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/07/ayanbadejo-now-says-four-gay-players-arent-considering-coming-out/\" target=\"_blank\">backed away a bit from his assertion\u003c/a>, the introduction of the very idea of actual current top athletes who are gay, as opposed to the extremely logical speculation that yes, of course some are, has created a certain excitement, and perhaps even washes away some of the ignorance that continues to ooze out even in this \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.itgetsbetter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">It Gets Better\u003c/a>\" age. You'll recall 49ers cornerback \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/chris-culliver-and-homophobia-in-sports-a-discussion/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Culliver's pre-Super Bowl comments\u003c/a> in January, when asked if he'd ever been approached by gay teammates: \"No, we don't got no gay people on the team,\" he said. \"They gotta get up out of here if they do. ... Nah, can't be in the locker room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comment was more about out-and-out disdain than an assessment of gay athletes' abilities (Culliver later apologized), but I myself have had a number of otherwise open-minded straight friends over the years make directly for the jokes when informed that I play in a gay league. And I should also say that their ignorance at one time mirrored my own. Since I had played baseball in high school, a friend's invitation to join his team in the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsl.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Gay Softball League\u003c/a> immediately prompted the notion that I was going to dominate, since surely everyone threw like a girl. Several years and a couple of benchings later, of that notion I had been disabused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SFGSL: 41 years and counting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league, in which former gay major leaguer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/11/10/premiere-tonight-the-glenn-burke-story/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Burke\u003c/a> once played, has been a haven for gay athletes for 41 years. But it's so welcoming of straight players that it got into hot water a few years back when a top World Series squad was disqualified for having too many heterosexuals on the roster. (That became the subject of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Not-gay-enough-softball-players-settle-suit-2297778.php\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a>.) Teams, including those in two women's divisions, are grouped by skill level, and the upper divisions are extremely competitive. Many of my teammates have played for decades, and lots of them are softball junkies, participating in multiple leagues, hustling off to weekend tournaments. More than one player has told me they've had a relationship go down the drain due to their preoccupation with the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I really had no idea. This was more than an athletic league. It was an entire subculture. A few years back, I interviewed one teammate, a five-tool outfielder with tremendous opposite field power, about what gay softball meant to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time I didn’t know anyone who was gay and who played sports,” he said. “I had my gay friends I’d go out with and my straight friends I’d play sports with. It was hard because a lot of gay guys said by playing sports I was trying to be straight. But when a friend told me about gay softball, I went to a game and it was like, 'Oh my goodness, all these guys play softball?' It was a whole different world. Playing gay softball helped me accept my lifestyle a lot more, because I saw I wasn’t the only guy out there who was gay and was athletic, and that’s how I had been feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's actually a whole network of gay sports leagues in the city. Softball, tennis, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">swimming\u003c/a> (even \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftsunami.org/Synchro/Schedule.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">synchronized swimming\u003c/a>). My friend Mike from the SFGSL has been playing in some of these for years, and he's coached in both gay and non-gay leagues. When I asked him what it was like for him to play in a \"straight league,\" he took me to task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually don't understand the labeling of gay, lesbian, straight to describe an athlete,\" he said. \"What does sexual orientation have to do with it? I feel when labels are being used it's due to insecurities, by either gays or straights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gay team, straight players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One team in the SFGSL, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesfrenegades.com/The_SF_Renegades/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Renegades\u003c/a>, actually has just four gay players; the other 11 are straight. John Steen, the team's pitcher, said he had concerns at first when he learned of that ratio, but was so inspired by the bonding that's developed between team members of different sexual orientations that he decided to make a \u003ca href=\"http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-renegades-what-team-are-you-on/x/835504\" target=\"_blank\">documentary\u003c/a> about the experience. The film will focus on the relationship between gay and straight men on and off the field.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/64459242?color=f00010\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I [asked] a bunch of friends before I had the idea,\" Steen said, \"do you have any straight male friends that you get together with and go have a drink with? And none of them did. And I’d never had that myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said the friendships he's developed with his straight teammates grew slowly, beginning with a team brunch. \"We had a great time and after ... I kind of wanted to ask them if they wanted to watch the Giants game. But I was too afraid to do that. So I texted one of them, and four of them came over. So I’m sitting here on my couch and two of the guys are sitting on the couch with me, and I just freaked -- oh my God, this is the first time ... I'd hung out with straight guys by myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked one of the straight guys on the team if he wanted to go to the Giants game with me on Tuesday, because it’s my birthday,\" Steen said. \"And I thought, 'Oh my God, a straight guy to hang out with on my birthday.' Stuff like that is happening organically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steen said there are still gay players in the league who believe in the \"70-30\" rule, which means 70 percent of the team must be gay or bisexual, a regulation that is enforced at the Gay Softball World Series. But he said he has not been able to find anyone who will say so on camera for his documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Are they going to be too aggressive?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My teammate Tony Robbins is a former league official who has been playing for about 10 years. He says he was wary at first when a handful of us straight guys signed on to the squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh f***, this is gonna be nasty,' \" he said. \"It started out kind of bouncy at first. ... The warmup period takes a little while. Maybe gay guys are thinking: 'Are they going to be too aggressive?' [But] I’ve only had one encounter where a straight player got way too aggressive. 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While the players and coaches involved say they will still strive to maintain the Spirit of the Game, players will not longer make their own calls -- officials will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MLU is trying to make the game more understandable to fans, something some Dogfish players are grateful for, since it means spectating will be easier for friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it will be interesting to see the sport evolve a bit as it's professionalized,\" said Adam Farren, a Dogfish player. \"To play with referees, to play on a bigger field, to play in front of paying spectators -- I think that will add an edge to the game that will be fun.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas Dallmann, another player, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a sport I love and it's a sport I'd like generations after us to love,\" he said. \"Bringing my grandpa out to the games is really exciting. 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Neither had held those titles at any level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition has not always been smooth. Fans battered Lacob with boos last season during Hall of Famer Chris Mullin's jersey retirement ceremony after the team traded fan favorite Monta Ellis for center Andrew Bogut, who is just starting to regain his past form following left ankle surgery that sidelined him most of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embarrassed at the time, Lacob is able to laugh at that moment now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What booing?\" he said, chuckling. \"Maybe a little bit (of vindication). But you can't worry about that. I understand why people did that. We have to move on from that, and we've got to be tougher than that. I've got to be tougher than that, and we've got to move forward. And we're going to get to where we want to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson also took his share of criticism for promising the playoffs before the team finished 23-43 during last year's labor lockout-shortened season. The biggest lesson he learned from his first year on the sideline was simple: \"You better get talent,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's just what Myers and his team did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warriors sent Dorell Wright to Philadelphia in a three-team trade that netted Sixth Man of the Year candidate Jarrett Jack from New Orleans. They signed free agent Carl Landry, drafted Harrison Barnes seventh overall and found role players in rookies Festus Ezeli and Draymond Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Stephen Curry's twice-surgically repaired right ankle has held up. David Lee turned in an All-Star season, and Bogut is getting back to being the player that Milwaukee drafted No. 1 overall in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm happy for our players and our fans. Well deserved, and a long time coming,\" Myers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Warriors upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks to advance to the second round in 2007, only five current players were even in the NBA. Another five were still in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So forgive the Warriors for dancing around the locker room for what 16 of 30 NBA teams get to celebrate each April. Many never had the chance before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand this is a small step, but it is a huge accomplishment for a lot of guys in this locker room,\" Curry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacob sure savored the moment from courtside, listening to chants of \"Playoffs! Playoffs!\" from a 30th straight sellout crowd while standing on the same floor he had been booed off of last year. He also congratulated each player at his locker and thanked every coach and staff member for a job well done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, his son, assistant general manager Kirk Lacob, even questioned why the team was celebrating so much. Lacob had to remind him: \"You've got to celebrate the little moments, too. Every step counts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very nice accomplishment,\" Lacob said. \"Everybody should be proud. It's a great reflection on the entire organization and all the changes we made, a lot of really hard work by a lot of people. At the end of the day, these players made it happen and they deserve all the credit in the world. This is the first step. Now we've got to take it to the next step.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody expects the Warriors will even come close to reaching basketball's biggest stage this season — not even Lacob, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who bought the franchise along with movie mogul Peter Guber for an NBA-record $450 million in 2010. But if they want to make any more noise this year, they'll need to finish out the regular season strong.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden State (45-33) remains a game ahead of Houston (44-34) for the Western Conference's sixth seed, which is critical to avoid powerhouses Oklahoma City and San Antonio in the first round. Both teams have four games remaining, and the Rockets own the tiebreaker after taking three of four against the Warriors this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden State has no time to relax, either. The defending conference champion Thunder visit Oracle Arena on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tears of Joy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warriors coach Mark Jackson shed tears in an emotional locker room celebration after beating Minnesota 105-89 on Tuesday night to clinch a playoff berth. He tried to gather himself and deliver a message he hopes resonates with his players, many of whom have never been to the playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told them, 'Don't you dare go to the baggage claim, because this is just a layover. This is not our final destination,\" Jackson said. \"Celebrate that we got here, but this is not our final destination.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even still, it's a milestone first stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners overhauled the franchise by hiring Jackson, a former NBA point guard, off the ESPN broadcast table. They also lured sports agent Bob Myers as assistant general manager, then relieved Larry Riley as GM last year to give Myers the top role. Neither had held those titles at any level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition has not always been smooth. Fans battered Lacob with boos last season during Hall of Famer Chris Mullin's jersey retirement ceremony after the team traded fan favorite Monta Ellis for center Andrew Bogut, who is just starting to regain his past form following left ankle surgery that sidelined him most of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embarrassed at the time, Lacob is able to laugh at that moment now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What booing?\" he said, chuckling. \"Maybe a little bit (of vindication). But you can't worry about that. I understand why people did that. We have to move on from that, and we've got to be tougher than that. I've got to be tougher than that, and we've got to move forward. And we're going to get to where we want to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson also took his share of criticism for promising the playoffs before the team finished 23-43 during last year's labor lockout-shortened season. The biggest lesson he learned from his first year on the sideline was simple: \"You better get talent,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's just what Myers and his team did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warriors sent Dorell Wright to Philadelphia in a three-team trade that netted Sixth Man of the Year candidate Jarrett Jack from New Orleans. They signed free agent Carl Landry, drafted Harrison Barnes seventh overall and found role players in rookies Festus Ezeli and Draymond Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Stephen Curry's twice-surgically repaired right ankle has held up. David Lee turned in an All-Star season, and Bogut is getting back to being the player that Milwaukee drafted No. 1 overall in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm happy for our players and our fans. Well deserved, and a long time coming,\" Myers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Warriors upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks to advance to the second round in 2007, only five current players were even in the NBA. Another five were still in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So forgive the Warriors for dancing around the locker room for what 16 of 30 NBA teams get to celebrate each April. Many never had the chance before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand this is a small step, but it is a huge accomplishment for a lot of guys in this locker room,\" Curry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacob sure savored the moment from courtside, listening to chants of \"Playoffs! Playoffs!\" from a 30th straight sellout crowd while standing on the same floor he had been booed off of last year. 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The result ensures an all-Big East Conference final in the league's last season in its current form: Louisville will play Connecticut, which beat Notre Dame 83-65, one night after the Louisville men's team plays Michigan for the championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cardinals are the 10th school to have both basketball teams reach the Final Four in the same season. Only UConn won both titles in the same season, back in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way I look at it, I think the men are trying to feed off of our success,\" Walz said with a smirk before adding on a serious note that he'd received word from Atlanta that the Louisville men \"were in the hotel lobby jumping up and down and cheering for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Layshia Clarendon scored 17 for Cal (32-4), which had won the Spokane Region as a second seed. Gennifer Brandon added 12 for the Golden Bears and Brittany Boyd added 10 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Credit Louisville, which obviously has been really hot,\" Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. \"They outfought us in the second half.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the third straight upset by Louisville, which had to beat defending national champion Baylor and the powerful Lady Vols just to get to the Big Easy. They will need to summon one more to win it all. Not that they're worried about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one expects us to be here,\" Slaughter said. \"No one expects us to be in the championship game. Just come together as a team and win as a team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shoni Schimmel, who had been one of the stars of the tournament, struggled early for Louisville, but finished with 10 points, including a clutch transition pull-up that gave Louisville a 57-54 lead with 2:06 left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarendon responded with a left win 3 of her own to tie it, but Sara Hammond, playing with four fouls for the last 7:20, gave the Cardinals the lead for good with a strong move inside as she was fouled. Suddenly, Cal was forcing desperate 3s and not hitting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After shooting 58. 6 percent (17 of 29) in the first half, Cal shot only 30 percent (9 of 30) in the second, negating the Bears' 38-26 advantage in rebounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the first half we got out a lot on the run. We didn't get a chance to run at all (in the second half) because we weren't getting stops,\" Clarendon said. \"We made a lot of mistakes. It's not like we played somebody who was too good and just flat out beat us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday night, the Louisville's men's team had to erase a 12-point second-half deficit against Wichita State, so the women didn't need much inspiration when they went into halftime trailing 37-27. They came out and quickly narrowed their deficit with a 7-0 run that began with Schimmel's 3. Smith added a mid-range jumper and Hammond scored inside to make it 37-34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal was back up 47-39 when Clarendon spun into the lane for a pull-up jumper, but the Cardinals then scored the next seven points, starting with Slaughter's deep 3 and ending with Jude Schimmel's free throws that made it as close as 47-46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cardinals finally pulled back into the lead when Hammond's free throws made it 53-52 with 3:40 left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We come out, we executed perfectly to start the second half,\" Walz said. \"Once we took the lead, I could see it in our kids' eyes, the excitement, 'Hey, we can do this, we're going to do this.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're playing our best basketball at the end of the year and that's all that matters,\" Walz added. \"We're figuring out a way to pull them out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before tip-off, Walz had the relaxed look of a coach who had been there before, which of course he had in 2009, when Louisville climbed out of a 12-point hole to beat Oklahoma State in the national semifinals before falling to Connecticut in the title game. He walked over to the Cal bench for a friendly chat with Gottlieb, giving her a hug before he walked back toward his bench, and then went across the court to welcome some fans in the front row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walz's team also appeared more composed in the first few minutes, racing to an 8-2 lead with the help of Slaughter's first 3 and a pair of layups by Smith. Smith's third basket inside the first five minutes gave Louisville a 10-6 lead, then Cal started to look more comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talia Caldwell's putback marked the beginning of a 12-1 run, capped by Clarendon's transition jumper that gave the Golden Bears an 18-11 lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jude Schimmel's 3 got Louisville as close as 25-22 midway through the half, but the Cardinals had trouble keeping pace while Shoni Schimmel, their leading scorer, missed six of her first seven shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal, which had won with strong rebounding all season, also controlled the game in that department, 23-11 overall and 8-3 in offensive rebounds in the first half. Complicating matters for Louisville was that Hammond, their leading rebounder (6.5 per game), sat out most of the half with two fouls.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco's AT&T Park hosts the final three games of the \u003ca href=\"http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">World Baseball Classic\u003c/a> beginning on Sunday, March 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003cimg class=\" \" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2013/03/15/wbcnetherlands20130315a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infielder Andrelton Simmons #9 of Netherlands throws his signed balls to fans after the World Baseball Classic Second Round Pool 1 game between Japan and the Netherlands at Tokyo Dome on March 12, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The WBC is Major League Baseball's effort to promote America’s pastime as a sport around the world. Last September, 28 teams entered the qualifying rounds of the World Baseball Classic, and the final round will feature just four: the Dominican Republic, Japan, the Netherlands, and the winner of Friday night's game between the U.S. and Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japan won both previous rounds of the WBC in 2006 and 2009. The Dominican Republic is well-known as a baseball powerhouse. But the Netherlands has taken the baseball world by surprise. It's their first trip to the final round, after they came from behind to beat the Cuban national team last Monday night. Now the Oranj, as they're known, have become the lovable underdogs of the WBC. The Dutch word for baseball, \u003cem>honkbal\u003c/em>, is a trending topic on Twitter whenever the team is playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Miller of Oakland Tweets and records podcasts about baseball as part of the team \u003ca href=\"http://productiveouts.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Productive Outs\u003c/a>, and he's also a contributor to Baseball Prospectus, where he \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=19793\" target=\"_blank\">wrote \u003c/a>about his conversion to the cult of honkbal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Initially it was just how comical [the word] honkbal was,\" Miller said. \"What they did was just literally translate English-language baseball terms into Dutch. \u003cem>Honkbal\u003c/em> literally means baseball. They have things like \u003cem>tweede honkman\u003c/em>, which is second baseman, \u003cem>kortestop\u003c/em>, shortstop, and \u003cem>werper\u003c/em> is pitcher. I can't root for the favorite. I have to root for the underdog, and that has a lot to do with why I threw my lot in with the Dutch. And I needed to throw my lot in with a team, so why not pick these guys who were making me laugh?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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