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Behind 104 yards and two touchdowns from running back Devonta Freeman,
the No. 12 Seminoles cruised to a 48-7 victory over the Duke Blue Devils
at Doak Cambell Stadium. And by virtue of North Carolina's 43-35 win
over North Carolina State, FSU reclaimed control of its destiny in the
Atlantic Coast Conference's Atlantic Division. "I think they're the best team in the country. I do," Duke coach David Cutcliffe said. "I don't see where the weakness is."
UNC's Giovanni Bernard returned a punt 74 yards for a touchdown in the
final seconds to hand N.C. State its second conference loss, and if
Florida State can win its final two league games -- at Virginia Tech and
at Maryland -- the Seminoles will play in Charlotte on Dec. 1 for their
first ACC title since 2005. "That was always our perspective at
the beginning of the season, but after that devastating loss (to N.C.
State), it was kind of a toss-up," FSU safety Lamarcus Joyner said. "But
now we're put back on that pedestal so we have to take advantage of
it." Duke brought perhaps its most talented team to ever play at
Doak Campbell Stadium and one of the ACC's top passing combos in
quarterback Sean Renfree and receiver Conner Vernon. But the latest
edition of this series looked just like the first 17 meetings --
domination by FSU on both sides of the ball and a lopsided final score.
The Seminoles piled up 560 yards of offense and quarterback EJ Manuel
threw for 282 yards and two touchdowns, despite going just 8-for-16, to
help FSU achieve its first 8-1 start since 2003. Duke,
meanwhile, struggled in nearly every phase. The Blue Devils mustered
only 232 yards of offense, were penalized 10 times for 95 yards and
surrendered a 75-yard punt return for a touchdown to FSU's Tyler Hunter
while the game was still close. "Those of you who hadn't seen us, that's not who we are," Cutcliffe said. "We're a good football team. We were not today."
FSU was hardly perfect, though. After building up a 31-7 lead at
halftime, the Seminoles got careless with the ball, fumbling it away
three times on three consecutive third-quarter possessions. Florida
State lost four fumbles over the course of the game and, after
struggling with ball security in last week's win over Miami, has fumbled
it away six times in two weeks. "That's a total lack of focus
and putting the balls on the ground were just completely -- that's us,"
FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said. "That's my fault as a coach and we're going
to get it fixed." The Seminoles' defense, though, made sure those miscues didn't matter much.
Renfree passed for a season-low 92 yards before leaving the game with a
head injury late in the second quarter. Backup Anthony Boone fared even
worse, connecting on just three of his 15 attempts. Vernon,
meanwhile, will have to wait at least another week to break former FSU
star Peter Warrick's ACC record for career receiving yards. The senior
from Miami came into the game needing 94 yards to reach the milestone
but was held to just 12 yards on three catches, both season lows.
"We try to take out players that are threats," Joyner said. "If you are
a threat and get our attention, we need to take care of that. Being
able to double him and put pressure on his side, that was the game plan
and it went through." NOTES: Dustin Hopkins' 56-yard field goal
in the fourth quarter gave him 80 for his career, tying him with former
Maryland kicker Nick Novak for the most field goals in ACC history ...
Senior linebacker Christian Jones recorded eight tackles in the first
quarter and finished with a team-high 11 ... FSU scored at least 31
points in a first half for the fourth time this season ... James Wilder
Jr.'s 10-yard touchdown in the second quarter gave him 10 scores for the
season, making him the first Seminole to reach that mark since 2009.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
No pressure for Chase leader Keselowski
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Brad Keselowski talks as though racing is simply business as usual.
The 28-year-old leads NASCAR’S Chase for
the Sprint Cup. While his margin on five-time champion Jimmie Johnson
is just seven points and perennial contender Denny Hamlin is only 20
points back, Keselowski dismisses talk that being chased means pressure.
“I feel good about our situation,” he
said. “I love the way we performed over the last few weekends — really
over the Chase. You want to win every race and obviously that hasn’t
happened, but that’s not realistic, either. But we’ve been fortunate to
win two races and be in contention for others. Even when we don’t win,
we seem to be able to find a way to not have a disaster out of it.”
That might be harder Sunday at
Martinsville Speedway, where Johnson is on the pole, Hamlin will start
fifth and the two have combined to win 10 times. Keselowski has never
finished better than ninth; he’ll roll off 32nd, back where mayhem can
ruin a driver’s day quickly.
Johnson and Hamlin have started back in
the field and rallied to good finishes. Johnson started 22nd here in the
spring and contended for the victory before fading to 12th.
This time around, he’d love to see
Keselowski struggle early because the leader typically reaches the tail
end of the field and starts lapping cars before 20 laps have been
completed. That makes it critical for a contender starting near the back
to drive his way out of trouble quickly.
“You have got to go,” Johnson said.
“Everybody around you has that same mentality, too, so it can be pretty
cut- throat back there.”
Even if Keselowski rallies into
contention, Hamlin figures the air of calm surrounding the season’s
final three races will be harder to maintain the longer it lasts.
“You can put that iron-clad armor around
you and think that it’s not going to affect you, but it will
eventually,” Hamlin said. “It doesn’t matter whether you are going from
the divisional game to the championship series; it just continues to
build and get harder to block out everything that you hear.”
Hamlin finished third in the Chase in
2006 and was second in 2010. He and Keselowski share the series lead
with five victories, and Hamlin thinks No. 6 would put him right in the
thick of things.
“If we win, then it is going to be huge
momentum,” he said. “If for some reason we can lead the most laps and
win the race, that’s half of our deficit that we’ve got that we can
knock out in one week. This place will build momentum, or it will take
it. You just hope you are on the first side of that.”
Thanks to his history of closing the deal, Johnson would seem to be the favorite.
“When it gets playoff time, things happen,” he said. “I don’t want to put my guard down.”
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Giants on to World Series With 9-0 Win Over Cards
After all the Giants had overcome to get back to the World Series, a late shower wasn't about to dampen their celebration.
All right, it was a driving downpour.
So reliever Sergio Romo danced through the raindrops, Tim Lincecum helped lead a soaked victory lap around the ballpark and Angel Pagan stayed on the field with his daughter long after his teammates took the party indoors.
Hunter Pence got the Giants going with a weird double, Matt Cain pitched his second clincher of October and San Francisco closed out Game 7 of the NL championship series in a rainstorm, routing the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 on Monday night.
"The rain never felt so good," series MVP Marco Scutaro said. "We're going to the World Series, this is unbelievable."
San Francisco won its record-tying sixth elimination game of the postseason, completing a lopsided rally from a 3-1 deficit.
The Giants, who won it all in 2010, will host reigning AL MVP and Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, Triple Crown slugger Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 on Wednesday night.
Verlander is set to pitch Wednesday's opener at AT&T Park. Giants manager Bruce Bochy insisted before Monday's game he had not planned any further in advance.
Scutaro produced his sixth multihit game of the series and matched an
LCS record with 14 hits and Pablo Sandoval drove in a run for his fifth
straight game.
"These guys never quit," Bochy said. "They just kept believing and they got it done."
After falling behind 3-1 in the series at Busch Stadium, the Giants outscored the wild-card Cardinals 20-1 over the final three games behind stellar starting pitching from Barry Zito, Ryan Vogelsong and Cain.
They also benefited from some strange bounces.
On Pence's double that highlighted a five-run third, his bat broke at the label on impact, then the broken barrel hit the ball twice more. That put a rolling, slicing spin on the ball and caused it to change directions — leaving shortstop Pete Kozma little chance to make the play. Kozma broke to his right, figuring that's where the ball would go, but it instead curved to left-center.
"It was going to go in the hole and it ended up going up the middle," Kozma said.
Injured closer Brian Wilson, with that out-of-control bushy black beard, danced in the dugout and fans in the sellout crowd of 43,056 kept twirling their orange rally towels even through rain in the late innings — a downright downpour when Romo retired Matt Holliday on a popup to Scutaro to end it.
Romo embraced catcher Buster Posey as fireworks went off over McCovey Cove beyond right field.
"It's just very fitting the way everything has gone for us this season," Romo said of ending in the rain. "The ups and downs, the injuries, the personal issues, whatever. What a ride for us all. It's very, very fitting that it rained right there."
The NL West champion Giants won their first postseason clincher at home since the 2002 NLCS, also against the Cardinals.
These 2012 Giants have a couple of pretty talented castoffs of their own not so different from that winning combination of 2010 "castoffs and misfits" as Bochy referred to his bunch — with Scutaro right there at the top of the list this time around.
All right, it was a driving downpour.
So reliever Sergio Romo danced through the raindrops, Tim Lincecum helped lead a soaked victory lap around the ballpark and Angel Pagan stayed on the field with his daughter long after his teammates took the party indoors.
Hunter Pence got the Giants going with a weird double, Matt Cain pitched his second clincher of October and San Francisco closed out Game 7 of the NL championship series in a rainstorm, routing the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 on Monday night.
"The rain never felt so good," series MVP Marco Scutaro said. "We're going to the World Series, this is unbelievable."
San Francisco won its record-tying sixth elimination game of the postseason, completing a lopsided rally from a 3-1 deficit.
The Giants, who won it all in 2010, will host reigning AL MVP and Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, Triple Crown slugger Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 on Wednesday night.
Verlander is set to pitch Wednesday's opener at AT&T Park. Giants manager Bruce Bochy insisted before Monday's game he had not planned any further in advance.
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"These guys never quit," Bochy said. "They just kept believing and they got it done."
After falling behind 3-1 in the series at Busch Stadium, the Giants outscored the wild-card Cardinals 20-1 over the final three games behind stellar starting pitching from Barry Zito, Ryan Vogelsong and Cain.
They also benefited from some strange bounces.
On Pence's double that highlighted a five-run third, his bat broke at the label on impact, then the broken barrel hit the ball twice more. That put a rolling, slicing spin on the ball and caused it to change directions — leaving shortstop Pete Kozma little chance to make the play. Kozma broke to his right, figuring that's where the ball would go, but it instead curved to left-center.
"It was going to go in the hole and it ended up going up the middle," Kozma said.
Injured closer Brian Wilson, with that out-of-control bushy black beard, danced in the dugout and fans in the sellout crowd of 43,056 kept twirling their orange rally towels even through rain in the late innings — a downright downpour when Romo retired Matt Holliday on a popup to Scutaro to end it.
Romo embraced catcher Buster Posey as fireworks went off over McCovey Cove beyond right field.
"It's just very fitting the way everything has gone for us this season," Romo said of ending in the rain. "The ups and downs, the injuries, the personal issues, whatever. What a ride for us all. It's very, very fitting that it rained right there."
The NL West champion Giants won their first postseason clincher at home since the 2002 NLCS, also against the Cardinals.
These 2012 Giants have a couple of pretty talented castoffs of their own not so different from that winning combination of 2010 "castoffs and misfits" as Bochy referred to his bunch — with Scutaro right there at the top of the list this time around.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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Peyton Manning is looking like an MVP again; who else?
And Manning's second-half magic provided a fitting comeback within his own remarkable return from four surgical procedures on his neck.
"I felt like I was watching the Peyton from back in 2003 through 2009. His performance was spectacular," Manning's former offensive coordinator Tom Moore told USA TODAY Sports Tuesday. "Don't ever count Peyton Manning out."
Manning hit 13 of 14 passes for 167 yards and three touchdowns during his second-half clinic. He has 14 touchdowns and four interceptions, with three of those picks coming in one quarter of a Week 2 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
Manning's 21-yard TD strike Monday night to Brandon Stokley's fingertips, a beat ahead of cornerback Marcus Gilchrist, underscored that Manning is not only Comeback Player of the Year frontrunner, but he is the lead MVP candidate six weeks into the season. And if the race is close at the end, he will be a heavy sentimental favorite.
A look at the early MVP contenders:
QB Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos
He now has 47 game-winning fourth-quarter drives, by the way.
Why he'll win: He is completing 67.8% of his passes and figures to get even better with his new cast.
Why he won't: He must cover for a defense that has issues against the run.
QB Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers
The reigning league MVP answered critics with a six-touchdown torching of Houston's vaunted defense.
Why he will win: With 16 TDs and a league-best 105.4 rating, he's the game's most talented passer.
Why he won't win: The lack of a run game could haunt him on an off-day.
QB Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons
He was the leader in the clubhouse until three INTs Sunday against a woeful Oakland Raiders secondary.
Why he'll win: He has lethal weapons in WRs Roddy White and Julio Jones and tight end Tony Gonzalez.
Why he won't: Under pressure, he's vulnerable to making poor decisions.
QB Eli Manning, New York Giants
The two-time Super Bowl MVP has never been a regular-season MVP, but he's still getting better at 31.
Why he will win: Ahmad Bradshaw's running has removed the need for all those comebacks.
Why he won't win: He'll never put up stratospheric numbers.
Leading candidates for other awards
Rookie of the Year: Redskins QB Robert Griffin III is the league's most exciting player, with 6 rushing scores, 5 passing TDs and only two interceptions.
Defensive Player of the Year: Houston Texans DE J.J. Watt leads the league with 9 1/2 sacks and has an uncanny knack for batting down passes.
Coach of the Year: Despite injuries, Giants coach Tom Coughlin and his defending Super Bowl champs made a statement by thrashing San Francisco.
Driving All the Way to Detroit for a First Date With the Tigers’ Park
Carlos Osorio/Associated Press
Comerica Park, which opened in 2000, has been described by critics as a “cookie-cutter.”
Carlos Osorio/Associated Press
The Tigers’ old ballpark hosted games from 1912 until 1999.
Many in Detroit still miss Tiger Stadium.
What’s the source of this dread I’m feeling? It’s not the fact that I
left my Alphabet City apartment in the predawn dark on Tuesday and
pointed the snout of my rust-bucket 1989 Mazda west toward my hometown,
Detroit, 600 miles distant. It’s not even the sheer lunacy of my day’s
itinerary — across the George Washington Bridge and the Garden State,
then over the corduroy hump of Pennsylvania, and finally across that
enormous dinner plate of a battleground state called Ohio. All of this
just to go back home to see my beloved Detroit Tigers take on the
Yankees on Tuesday night in Game 3 of the American League Championship
Series.
(Wait a minute, you’re thinking, a man in the 21st century wants to get
from New York to Detroit to see a baseball game, and he drives? Well,
yes, because I was born and raised in Detroit, and when a Detroit guy
wants to go somewhere, he gets into a car and drives there. It beats
showing up at La Guardia six hours before your scheduled departure and
then being treated like a criminal. I rest my case for keeping my wheels
on the road.)
Most surprising of all, my dread is not coming from a feeling that the
Yankees’ batters are going to wake from their collective coma and start
Ping-Ponging hits all over the park.
No, my dread comes from something much simpler, a question: What if my
very first visit to Comerica Park stinks? What if the successor to Tiger
Stadium is a “cookie cutter,” as I’ve heard it described? What if the
fans are obnoxious? What if the whole experience is just another dreary
episode in The Great Overpriced American Racket of Keeping the People
Entertained?
To fully understand my anxiety, you need to understand that I grew up in
Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s, attending baseball and football games
at a glorious old pile of a stadium that hosted its first game in 1912, a
few weeks after the Titanic sank. It was called Navin Field back then.
When I first visited, it was known as Briggs Stadium, and the name was
changed again in 1961 to Tiger Stadium. It was a great green open-air
room that held about 50,000 fans but somehow felt intimate because
everyone was close to the action. The stadium was enclosed, meaning you
couldn’t see anything but the game that was being played before your
eyes. The world went away for a few hours when you were in that place,
and that was a big part of its magic.
If you loved the Tigers in the years of my youth, it was a given that
you also despised the Yankees. In the first decade of my life, the
Yankees won the American League all but two times — in 1954, when Bob
Feller and the Cleveland Indians awoke, briefly, and in 1959 when the
Chicago White Sox had a rare and uncharacteristic summer of success.
Tiger Stadium played a large part in breeding an undying sense of
loyalty in the team’s fans. Understandably, they howled when ownership
and local politicians started talking about abandoning the old barn at
the corner of Michigan and Trumbull and building a new stadium. A group
called the Tiger Stadium Fan Club came together to fight the demolition.
The stadium was in need of some major work, they agreed, but it was
structurally sound. Coleman Young, the former mayor, disagreed, saying,
“The damned thing is falling down.”
The fan club’s efforts failed. The Tigers moved into Comerica Park in
2000, and for the next nine years, a new group called the Old Tiger
Stadium Conservancy fought to preserve the abandoned ballyard. They met
with failure, too. The wrecking crew went to work in 2009.
The next year, a native Detroiter, a postal worker named Tom Derry, went
to the Corner, as it’s known locally, and was shocked by what he saw.
“It looked awful — it was just weeds,” Derry says. “I called some
friends, and we took our mowers down and went to work. It looks much
better now.”
Derry and Company call themselves the Navin Field Grounds Crew. Theirs
is a curiously Detroit kind of mission: caring for a treasure that was
allowed to vanish. “We’re very passionate about preserving the field and
the history,” Derry says.
My long trip is almost over. As I send these words through the ether to
the sports desk, I’m getting ready to make the right turn at Toledo. My
Mazda, with 215,000 miles and change on the odometer, is running like a
sewing machine. Soon I’ll hit the Michigan state line and I’ll be able
to pick up the pregame sports radio chatter coming down from Detroit.
Maybe I’ll get to spend the rest of this Tuesday with Mitch Albom. Or
maybe not.
Either way, I’ll soon know if my dread about my first visit to Comerica
Park was well founded, or if it was just the silly fretting of a
lifelong Tigers fan. Which is a delicate way of admitting that I’m an
incurable pessimist.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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ONTARIO, Calif. -- Over the past couple of days Kobe Bryant has commented on or mentioned the following people: himself, Dwight Howard, Shaquille O'Neal, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Andrew Bynum, Smush Parker, Phil Jackson, Kwame Brown, Lamar Odom, Chris Paul, and a litany of others.
He has spoken openly about his inevitable retirement in a few years. He has offered candid opinions on the legends he has played with, played against or stood alongside.
It has been like his own version of "A Christmas Carol," where the narrator goes on a journey of self-reflection as he's visited by the ghosts of Christmas' past, present and future.
It's
not hard to see why he has been in this contemplative place lately: At
34, with a torchbearer (Dwight Howard) to groom and then hand off to, he
can see the end of his road in the NBA.
Yes, there are a lot of games to be played and titles to be won. There is a legacy to polish.
But more than at any point in the decade I've covered him, Bryant seems at peace. He has set his terms for how he'll pass the franchise to Howard. He has decided he's only going to do this as long as he can be one of the best players in the game.
There's a certain kind of freedom that comes with making decisions like this. You say what you want to say, not what you're supposed to say anymore.
There was another guy like that in these parts not too long ago. A coach by the name of Phil Jackson. And on more than one occasion recently, Bryant has reminded me and other longtime Los Angeles Lakers observers of the way Jackson became in his final years on the sideline.
Raw and somewhat bulletproof.
Take this from before Wednesday night's game as Bryant reflected on the lean seasons from 2005 to 2007: "I told Steve [Nash], 'You may have won an MVP, but I was playing with Smush Parker. He played with Barbosa and all those guys. I played with Smush and Kwame [Brown]. My goodness.
"Smush was the worst. He shouldn't have been in the NBA but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard so we let him walk on and had Tierre Brown back him up."
And there's more.
"Kwame, he's a great defensive player. He's one of the best defensive big men I've ever seen. But in terms of offense, he was challenged."
Reminded Kwame Brown was still in the league, Bryant laughed and said, "Somehow he talked Philly into giving him $7 million a year. Then they want to lock us out?"
In two minutes he'd managed to take shots at Lakers ownership, the new collective bargaining agreement and every other NBA owner. There might not be another player in the league who could speak truth to power with such blistering honesty. Outside of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich or Denver Nuggets coach George Karl, I can't think of any other coach who'd let it rip like this.
But this is Bryant's status in the game now.
You already think what you think of him. There's no bending it anymore. And really, the days when changing minds was important to him are long behind him.
This is his time now, to spend as he wants. To do as much as he can. To say what he wants to say. To finish on his own terms.
"Normally it's not weird for a guy to talk about [retirement] when a guy's pretty much got it made up in his mind that these are going to be his last two years," teammate Antawn Jamison said. "It's just weird that you hear it from Kobe. This is guy who is invincible. He never shows weakness, never shows his card at all.
"You wouldn't expect him, of all people, to say that at all. But this is the new Kobe. It's kind of fun, actually."
The comparisons to Michael and Magic don't seem bother him anymore. Bring up Shaquille O'Neal any time you want. Just say the name Smush Parker and it's like he's swinging off a tee. After Wednesday's game he even offered an opinion on the Yankees' decision to pinch hit for Alex Rodriguez in the ninth inning of their win over the Baltimore Orioles. "I don't like that," he said with the serious face of a concerned friend. "That's not good for the chemistry of the team. I'm going to have to call him."
There are people who will read Bryant's comments and find them cruel or mean-spirited. But read 'em again. The part about Brown being one of the best defensive big men he has ever seen. He meant every word.
"He was really quick. He understood defensive concepts," Bryant said of Brown. "He might have actually showed Andrew [Bynum] a few things, especially on screen-and-roll coverages and one-on-one defense."
He didn't have to say any of it, but he was in the mood to say all of it, the good and the bad. How he really feels. What he really thinks.
When people get to the end of a career like Bryant's, they go one of two ways. Some hang on too long, refusing to accept any reality but the one they've known. Others find a peace with knowing they have a say in how things end, even if it doesn't always feel that way.
What Kobe Bryant has been saying over the past few days is pretty simple: He only wants to be Kobe Bryant for as long as he can be Kobe Bryant.
"In all honestly, he can play the next five or six years," Jamison said. "But maybe not at the level he wants to compete at, and to play for a championship-caliber team."
How will it all end? That's three years down the road. But you can bet it'll go however Bryant says it will.
He has spoken openly about his inevitable retirement in a few years. He has offered candid opinions on the legends he has played with, played against or stood alongside.
It has been like his own version of "A Christmas Carol," where the narrator goes on a journey of self-reflection as he's visited by the ghosts of Christmas' past, present and future.
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Noah Graham/Getty ImagesKobe Bryant has been covering a lot of ground in the media recently.
Yes, there are a lot of games to be played and titles to be won. There is a legacy to polish.
But more than at any point in the decade I've covered him, Bryant seems at peace. He has set his terms for how he'll pass the franchise to Howard. He has decided he's only going to do this as long as he can be one of the best players in the game.
There's a certain kind of freedom that comes with making decisions like this. You say what you want to say, not what you're supposed to say anymore.
There was another guy like that in these parts not too long ago. A coach by the name of Phil Jackson. And on more than one occasion recently, Bryant has reminded me and other longtime Los Angeles Lakers observers of the way Jackson became in his final years on the sideline.
Raw and somewhat bulletproof.
Take this from before Wednesday night's game as Bryant reflected on the lean seasons from 2005 to 2007: "I told Steve [Nash], 'You may have won an MVP, but I was playing with Smush Parker. He played with Barbosa and all those guys. I played with Smush and Kwame [Brown]. My goodness.
"Smush was the worst. He shouldn't have been in the NBA but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard so we let him walk on and had Tierre Brown back him up."
And there's more.
"Kwame, he's a great defensive player. He's one of the best defensive big men I've ever seen. But in terms of offense, he was challenged."
Reminded Kwame Brown was still in the league, Bryant laughed and said, "Somehow he talked Philly into giving him $7 million a year. Then they want to lock us out?"
In two minutes he'd managed to take shots at Lakers ownership, the new collective bargaining agreement and every other NBA owner. There might not be another player in the league who could speak truth to power with such blistering honesty. Outside of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich or Denver Nuggets coach George Karl, I can't think of any other coach who'd let it rip like this.
But this is Bryant's status in the game now.
You already think what you think of him. There's no bending it anymore. And really, the days when changing minds was important to him are long behind him.
This is his time now, to spend as he wants. To do as much as he can. To say what he wants to say. To finish on his own terms.
"Normally it's not weird for a guy to talk about [retirement] when a guy's pretty much got it made up in his mind that these are going to be his last two years," teammate Antawn Jamison said. "It's just weird that you hear it from Kobe. This is guy who is invincible. He never shows weakness, never shows his card at all.
"You wouldn't expect him, of all people, to say that at all. But this is the new Kobe. It's kind of fun, actually."
The comparisons to Michael and Magic don't seem bother him anymore. Bring up Shaquille O'Neal any time you want. Just say the name Smush Parker and it's like he's swinging off a tee. After Wednesday's game he even offered an opinion on the Yankees' decision to pinch hit for Alex Rodriguez in the ninth inning of their win over the Baltimore Orioles. "I don't like that," he said with the serious face of a concerned friend. "That's not good for the chemistry of the team. I'm going to have to call him."
There are people who will read Bryant's comments and find them cruel or mean-spirited. But read 'em again. The part about Brown being one of the best defensive big men he has ever seen. He meant every word.
"He was really quick. He understood defensive concepts," Bryant said of Brown. "He might have actually showed Andrew [Bynum] a few things, especially on screen-and-roll coverages and one-on-one defense."
He didn't have to say any of it, but he was in the mood to say all of it, the good and the bad. How he really feels. What he really thinks.
When people get to the end of a career like Bryant's, they go one of two ways. Some hang on too long, refusing to accept any reality but the one they've known. Others find a peace with knowing they have a say in how things end, even if it doesn't always feel that way.
What Kobe Bryant has been saying over the past few days is pretty simple: He only wants to be Kobe Bryant for as long as he can be Kobe Bryant.
"In all honestly, he can play the next five or six years," Jamison said. "But maybe not at the level he wants to compete at, and to play for a championship-caliber team."
How will it all end? That's three years down the road. But you can bet it'll go however Bryant says it will.
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1:38AM EST October 4. 2012 - DENVER -- From the first question, Mitt Romney was on the attack.
So was Barack Obama.
But during their 90-minute encounter, the first of three presidential debates, the Democratic president sometimes seemed annoyed and defensive while his Republican challenger was energetic, focused and relentlessly on message. Romney ripped Obama's record on the economy with a tone calculated to convey more sorrow than anger.
He told the stories of individuals who have come up to him and his wife, Ann, at campaign events asking for help in getting a job or saving their home from foreclosure. "Yes, we can help," he said, looking straight into the camera, speaking to the millions of voters watching from their homes, not the hundreds in the University of Denver arena. "But it's going to take a different path, not the one we've been on."
Obama hammered Romney for tax proposals he said didn't add up and economic policies he said would benefit the wealthy and damage the middle class. He defended the Affordable Care Act for its most popular provisions, including protecting those with pre-existing medical conditions. But he never raised that secretly recorded video in which Romney described 47% of Americans as "victims" who are dependent on the government and he never pressed Romney on his record as head of Bain Capital — both issues his campaign has pushed.
When it was over, it was clear which side was more eager to talk about the debate. Republican surrogates immediately flooded the media center. The Democratic ones didn't follow until several minutes later, and they left while the other side stayed to spin.
In a serious, rapid-fire discussion, the two men laid out fundamentally different visions for the role of government and the best way to lead the nation to prosperity.
"Free market and free enterprise are more effective in bringing down costs than anything," Romney said in the discussion of health care. "The private market and individual responsibility always works best."
Obama talked about the responsibilities of citizens to one another and described spending on education and other programs as an investment that in the end spurs growth and jobs. "The federal government can't do it all, but it can make a difference," he said in an exchange in which he extolled Abraham Lincoln.
There wasn't an embarrassing gaffe or a single sharp exchange that defined the evening, as there sometimes is with presidential debates.
Romney again and again reminded voters of their economic woes and blamed Obama's policies for contribution to slow job growth, increasing poverty, home foreclosures. He questioned Obama's economic competence. "Going forward with the status quo is not going to cut it for the American people who are struggling today," Romney charged as Obama frowned.
And Obama again and again raised questions about whether Romney's numbers added up and if his policies would work, saying his tax proposals would explode the deficit and benefit the wealthy. When Romney disputed that, saying he wouldn't reduce the tax burden on the wealthy or approve tax cuts that increased the deficit, the president expressed incredulity.
"Now four weeks before the election, he is saying his big, bold plan is: Never mind," Obama said. He accused Romney of proposing to "double down" on economic policies that contributed to the economic meltdown that greeted him four years ago in the Oval Office.
In other words, Romney cast the election as a referendum on Obama's first term in office. Obama cast it as a choice between his plans and those of his opponent.
Much of the discussion was a festival for fact-checkers, a dizzying competition of numbers on tax policy, on the costs of the proposals each has made, on Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts and Obama's tenure as president.
Both men talked fast, tried to hold the floor and often ignored the entreaties of moderator Jim Lehrer to respond to his specific questions or to move on to the next topic. At times, they interrupted and talked over one another.
But Romney showed the value of the 19 debates he participated in during the GOP primaries and the extended practice sessions he has scheduled in recent weeks. He seemed relaxed and conversational, repeatedly referred to individuals he had met on the campaign trail, and gave no quarter when challenged by the president.
Obama, in contrast, hadn't debated since the last of his three encounters with John McCain four years ago. Not since then has he faced an opponent on a level playing field — the podium in front of him not even adorned with the presidential seal. He understandably didn't seem to relish have his record challenged in a direct way presidents rarely face.
After Obama vowed to reduce the federal budget deficit in his second term, Romney told him, "You've been president four years."
Bill Galston, an adviser to President Clinton and other Democrats and who is now at the Brookings Institution, said Romney "did himself considerable good" in the debate. "I would not be surprised to learn that a majority of the American people think he won it outright," Galston said in an e-mail. "I suspect that over the next week, the public opinion surveys will show a significant narrowing of the gap between President Obama and his re-energized challenger."
"He crushed it," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said of Romney. "Most people came away seeing a Mitt Romney they hadn't seen before."
Romney had never participated in a debate in which the audience was so large and the stakes so high.
Since the Democratic National Convention last month, polls show Obama has opened a narrow lead nationwide and a bigger one in such swing states as Ohio and New Hampshire. If Obama could be satisfied with a draw, Romney went into the race needing to shake things up.
The debate offered a more substantive discussion of the two candidates' proposals than much of the campaign to date. Even though the two sides effectively have been campaigning against one another for most of the year, the vast majority of ads have been negative and the points of attack often an ill-considered comment by the other guy.
Wednesday night, they explored the considerable differences between them on how they would spur growth and their views on the role of government in the 21st century. The length of the debate, a less rigid format than in previous elections and the focus on four broad topics were designed to encourage a substantive discussion.
The ideological divide between Obama and Romney on dominant questions of the day — this year, it's the economy and its slow climb out of recession — is as wide as it has been in any presidential election in more than a generation.
On that, at least, the two contenders seemed to agree.
"Four years ago, we were going through a major crisis," Obama said in his closing statement. "The question now is: How do we build on those strengths?"
Romney, who courtesy of a coin toss got the last word, said a second Obama term would lead to deeper economic travails. The two candidates offer "two very different paths," he said. "They lead in very different directions."
So was Barack Obama.
But during their 90-minute encounter, the first of three presidential debates, the Democratic president sometimes seemed annoyed and defensive while his Republican challenger was energetic, focused and relentlessly on message. Romney ripped Obama's record on the economy with a tone calculated to convey more sorrow than anger.
He told the stories of individuals who have come up to him and his wife, Ann, at campaign events asking for help in getting a job or saving their home from foreclosure. "Yes, we can help," he said, looking straight into the camera, speaking to the millions of voters watching from their homes, not the hundreds in the University of Denver arena. "But it's going to take a different path, not the one we've been on."
Obama hammered Romney for tax proposals he said didn't add up and economic policies he said would benefit the wealthy and damage the middle class. He defended the Affordable Care Act for its most popular provisions, including protecting those with pre-existing medical conditions. But he never raised that secretly recorded video in which Romney described 47% of Americans as "victims" who are dependent on the government and he never pressed Romney on his record as head of Bain Capital — both issues his campaign has pushed.
When it was over, it was clear which side was more eager to talk about the debate. Republican surrogates immediately flooded the media center. The Democratic ones didn't follow until several minutes later, and they left while the other side stayed to spin.
In a serious, rapid-fire discussion, the two men laid out fundamentally different visions for the role of government and the best way to lead the nation to prosperity.
"Free market and free enterprise are more effective in bringing down costs than anything," Romney said in the discussion of health care. "The private market and individual responsibility always works best."
Obama talked about the responsibilities of citizens to one another and described spending on education and other programs as an investment that in the end spurs growth and jobs. "The federal government can't do it all, but it can make a difference," he said in an exchange in which he extolled Abraham Lincoln.
There wasn't an embarrassing gaffe or a single sharp exchange that defined the evening, as there sometimes is with presidential debates.
Romney again and again reminded voters of their economic woes and blamed Obama's policies for contribution to slow job growth, increasing poverty, home foreclosures. He questioned Obama's economic competence. "Going forward with the status quo is not going to cut it for the American people who are struggling today," Romney charged as Obama frowned.
And Obama again and again raised questions about whether Romney's numbers added up and if his policies would work, saying his tax proposals would explode the deficit and benefit the wealthy. When Romney disputed that, saying he wouldn't reduce the tax burden on the wealthy or approve tax cuts that increased the deficit, the president expressed incredulity.
"Now four weeks before the election, he is saying his big, bold plan is: Never mind," Obama said. He accused Romney of proposing to "double down" on economic policies that contributed to the economic meltdown that greeted him four years ago in the Oval Office.
In other words, Romney cast the election as a referendum on Obama's first term in office. Obama cast it as a choice between his plans and those of his opponent.
Much of the discussion was a festival for fact-checkers, a dizzying competition of numbers on tax policy, on the costs of the proposals each has made, on Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts and Obama's tenure as president.
Both men talked fast, tried to hold the floor and often ignored the entreaties of moderator Jim Lehrer to respond to his specific questions or to move on to the next topic. At times, they interrupted and talked over one another.
But Romney showed the value of the 19 debates he participated in during the GOP primaries and the extended practice sessions he has scheduled in recent weeks. He seemed relaxed and conversational, repeatedly referred to individuals he had met on the campaign trail, and gave no quarter when challenged by the president.
Obama, in contrast, hadn't debated since the last of his three encounters with John McCain four years ago. Not since then has he faced an opponent on a level playing field — the podium in front of him not even adorned with the presidential seal. He understandably didn't seem to relish have his record challenged in a direct way presidents rarely face.
After Obama vowed to reduce the federal budget deficit in his second term, Romney told him, "You've been president four years."
Bill Galston, an adviser to President Clinton and other Democrats and who is now at the Brookings Institution, said Romney "did himself considerable good" in the debate. "I would not be surprised to learn that a majority of the American people think he won it outright," Galston said in an e-mail. "I suspect that over the next week, the public opinion surveys will show a significant narrowing of the gap between President Obama and his re-energized challenger."
"He crushed it," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said of Romney. "Most people came away seeing a Mitt Romney they hadn't seen before."
Romney had never participated in a debate in which the audience was so large and the stakes so high.
Since the Democratic National Convention last month, polls show Obama has opened a narrow lead nationwide and a bigger one in such swing states as Ohio and New Hampshire. If Obama could be satisfied with a draw, Romney went into the race needing to shake things up.
The debate offered a more substantive discussion of the two candidates' proposals than much of the campaign to date. Even though the two sides effectively have been campaigning against one another for most of the year, the vast majority of ads have been negative and the points of attack often an ill-considered comment by the other guy.
Wednesday night, they explored the considerable differences between them on how they would spur growth and their views on the role of government in the 21st century. The length of the debate, a less rigid format than in previous elections and the focus on four broad topics were designed to encourage a substantive discussion.
The ideological divide between Obama and Romney on dominant questions of the day — this year, it's the economy and its slow climb out of recession — is as wide as it has been in any presidential election in more than a generation.
On that, at least, the two contenders seemed to agree.
"Four years ago, we were going through a major crisis," Obama said in his closing statement. "The question now is: How do we build on those strengths?"
Romney, who courtesy of a coin toss got the last word, said a second Obama term would lead to deeper economic travails. The two candidates offer "two very different paths," he said. "They lead in very different directions."
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