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Baseball season is a week away folks – and the DobberBaseball forum is humming like never before. I'm excited about the growing community over there. DobberHockey's community has set the bar pretty high. Anyway, if you haven't yet done so, pick up the Fantasy Guide. The baseball site is also running a big $500 FanDuel contest that's free to join so head on over there for that.
The big game for me last night was the one involving Claude Giroux versus Steven Stamkos. It was anti-climatic though – the two combined for just one point. At this point, Evgeni Malkin seems pretty safe atop the scoring race, barring injury.
As I noted on Twitter last night, I'm pretty excited about Gustav Nyquist. He has four points in four games now and he scored his first NHL goal. I hope they keep him in the lineup into the playoffs. I remember being excited about Jiri Hudler coming up. I remember not being excited at all about Filppula. But the last time I was this excited about a forward prospect in the Detroit system it was Henrik Zetterberg. I remember when Nyquist first jumped onto my radar – it was putting together the 2009 Fantasy Prospects Report (yes, if you don't buy those, then you REALLY miss out keeper leaguers!). Matt Bugg submitted his profile to me and I had never heard of him. In his profile he said "Datsyuk or Zetterberg anyone?" Nothing gets a fantasy owner's attention more than that. I'm not saying that he'll be like those guys. I'm just saying he is an extremely promising player.
Johan Franzen is close to returning, so that may spell the end for Nyquist. The team has been controlling Nyquist's minutes, and it's hard to argue with their strategy. Look for Franzen Wednesday.
The Avs made the smart decision during their desperate playoff run and scratched Peter Mueller. Yep, sarcasm.
Todd Bertuzzi had four assists and was plus-5. He was a career minus-53 heading into this season, but has whittled that down to minus-28.
Kyle Quincey has 13 shots on goal in his last two games and nothing to show for it.
Uh oh. Erik Karlsson is heating up again. You know what that means? Fifty assists in his next six games.
With three points last night, Kyle Wellwood has 44, which is just one shy of his career high set as a rookie with the Leafs. Amazing that he had 87 points in his first 130 career games. All that promise destroyed by a slew of injuries.
Zach Bogosian had 10 shots on goal last night and 19 over his last three games. Before that, he averaged about two shots per game.
Alex Goligoski's assist last night was just his second point in 13 games. We'll chalk this season up to injury and jitters/pressure of big contract, and pencil him in for 50 points next year. Can't question the talent, or his standing with the team.
Vancouver fans can rest easy – Roberto Luongo has his confidence back. In his last three games he has faced 115 shots and stopped 111 of them.
Jamie McGinn, Paul Stastny and David Jones were each minus-4 last night.
Meanwhile, Gabriel Landeskog earned an assist on their only goal and managed to be a plus-1 in a 5-1 loss. He's selling me on the Calder. Hard to believe he's just a rookie.
Patric Hornqvist has 16 goals in his last 31 contests.
Ray Emery has an upper-body injury and the Blackhawks recalled Carter Hutton. Alexander Salak is having a terrible year. Terrible year in the AHL. While Hutton has had a fantastic year and has earned this recall. Not that I think he gets to play…
As writers and fans were still writing about and rave about the recent success of Ilya Bryzgalov, the bottom sure dropped out last night – he faced just 14 shots but allowed four goals. Bryzgalov was said to be limping after the game.
Reilly Smith, who signed with Dallas Sunday, could not play last night nor will he likely be able to play Wednesday. He has some things to sort out with his visa.
Dallas is on a signing frenzy. You can add prospect Alex Chiasson to the list that includes Campbell and the two Smiths. Chiasson is their top fantasy prospect, ranked 53 on my list. Unlike Reilly Smith, Chiasson will not play for Dallas but will play for Texas.
Wanna get hypnotized? Check out this clever .gif of Sidney Crosby taking Marek Zidlicky to school.
The Devils signed prospect David Wohlberg to an ELC. He is ranked 358 on my Fantasy Prospects List, but moves up with this news. His upside is 60 points tops, likely much less.
The Ducks sent Kyle Palmieri back to the minors, but he had a really great run this past cup of coffee.
Here is an update on Nicklas Backstrom, who is not 100 percent yet, but getting there.
The Penguins recalled two defensemen and one has to wonder why. Simon Despres and Brian Strait were called up from WBS. I know Kris Letang was tossed around a lot last game – with a worry (to me) about his head one time, and his knee the other. Ben Lovejoy left the game with an injury. But that's all I can figure. Letang did return to the game, but hell he returned to the game the last time he was concussed. Stay tuned.
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Bri'onte Dunn and Warren Ball ran for touchdowns to lead the Gray past the Scarlet 17-7 Saturday in Ohio State's annual spring game before a crowd of 61,058 at sunny Ohio Stadium. Many of the Buckeyes' big names didn't play.
Quarterback Braxton Miller, Ohio State's All-Big Ten quarterback, sat out spring workouts after surgery on his (right) throwing shoulder. Wide receiver Evan Spencer (ankle) and safety Vonn Bell (knee) also missed the game.
The Buckeyes lose four starters on defense and six on offense from a 12-2 team that won a school-record 24 games in a row before losing the Big Ten championship game to Michigan State 34-24 and the Orange Bowl to Clemson 40-35.
Harvick wins at Darlington
Kevin Harvick has capped his biggest weekend at Darlington Raceway with his first Southern 500 victory. He started from the pole and passed Dale Earnhardt Jr. two laps from the end of the longest race in the track's 65-year NASCAR history. Harvick led 239 of the 374 laps, seven more than planned, and became the first two-time winner in the first eight races of the season. The race was extended by two tries at a green-white-checkered finish.
Hendrick Motorsports had the second and third-place finishers as Earnhardt finished just ahead of Jimmie Johnson. Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle round out the top five.
Latos return delayed for Reds
Reds starter Mat Latos had an MRI on his sore pitching forearm Saturday, leaving him unsure of the next step in his recovery from elbow and knee problems. The right-hander had surgery to remove bone chips from his elbow after last season. He tore cartilage in his left knee while throwing and had surgery on Feb. 14, the day the Reds opened spring training.
Latos had hoped to be ready to rejoin the rotation later this month. He suffered a setback this week when he was scratched from a minor league rehab start because of the sore forearm. He said the elbow and the knee felt good, and he's unsure why the forearm has become a problem.
Slumping Reds lose to Rays
Alex Cobb went seven innings on Saturday, extending Tampa Bay's run of solid starting pitching, and James Loney homered for a 1-0 victory over the slumping Cincinnati Reds. The Rays came into the interleague series with a 1-8 mark against the Reds. They've taken the first two games with shutdown pitching and just enough offense.
Cobb (1-1) pitched seven shutout inning against Texas on Sunday but got a no-decision. He kept the scoreless streak going on Saturday, limiting Cincinnati's struggling lineup to four hits without walking a batter.
Indians beat White Sox again
Ryan Raburn hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 12-6 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday. Nick Swisher, Jason Kipnis and David Murphy homered for Cleveland, which snapped a three-game losing streak. Murphy added a three-run triple in a four-run ninth against Donnie Veal.
The Indians improved to 18-4 against the White Sox since the beginning of last season, overcoming another shaky start by Justin Masterson. They will try for a split of the four-game series Sunday.
Penguins fall to Flyers in OT
Mark Streit beat Marc-Andre Fleury 2:10 into overtime to lift the Flyers to a 4-3 victory over Pittsburgh. The win assures Philadelphia of a matchup with the New York Rangers when the playoffs begin next week.
CBJ defeats Lightning, clinch Wild Card spot
Ryan Johansen scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period to and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Florida Panthers for the eighth straight time, 3-2 on Saturday night. Mark Letestu and Cam Atkinson also scored for Columbus and Sergei Bobrovsky made 33 saves.
The Blue Jackets clinched the first wild-card spot and will face Pittsburgh in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Philadelphia's 4-3 overtime win over Pittsburgh earlier Saturday clinched third place in the Metropolitan Division for the Flyers and forced Columbus to the wild-card spot.
Cavs lose to Celtics 111-99
Rookie Kelly Olynyk matched a career high with 25 points and the short-handed Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 111-99 on Saturday night.
Avery Bradley also scored 25 points for the Celtics, who built a 33-point lead early in the fourth quarter before Cleveland's reserves cut into the margin.
Boston snapped a 13-game road losing streak and won for the first time away from home since Feb. 10. The Celtics broke a nine-game losing streak Friday against playoff-bound Charlotte and have won consecutive games for the first time since early March.
The Celtics, who dressed only eight players, were without point guard Rajon Rondo (strained shin) and center Jared Sullinger (sprained ankle), as well as several reserves who are also injured.
Kyrie Irving scored and Dion Waiters each scored 15 points for Cleveland, but neither played in the fourth quarter that began with Boston leading 89-58.
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"(I'm) completely shocked that we're still having these conversations at this point in the year," Kiffin continued. "Sometimes you have them the first couple weeks, with newer players or guys making mistakes. But to see the same ones repeated over and over is really disappointing and it cost us a game."
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How I got here the long version is a longer story than I want to tell. How I got here the short version is the story of a night a year and a half ago. I was with Aaron, who was supposed to be the love of my life.
"Did I win, baby?" I sang out to Aaron across Raji's bar, pretending I was more stupid than I actually was. We had landed in L.A. six months before and that was when I really started laying on the dumb routine. I found it advantageous to be underestimated. You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what you're pretending to be.
Not that I'm some kind of genius but I'm not dull enough to think I lost even when the other guy sunk the eight ball. But I hollered at Aaron anyway because he was deep in red-bar-light, sparkle-eyed conversation with a smart, dainty blonde named Madison, for Christ's sake. Madison. Madison from USC film school no doubt.
It was a bad night already. Bad even before it got worse. I was pitched sideways with the cheap well liquor and the dope we'd smoked off foils in the bathroom and the lines we'd snorted off Madison's compact mirror. I had smoked cigarettes dusted with cocaine and was tumbling too fast. I flirted with Aaron's friends just to piss him off.
"Hey, Chaaaaaaas."
I baited my hook and let my line fly. Chas was such a ridiculous mark, with his wire-rimmed glasses and his over-sized-sweater-wearing, women's-college-going girlfriend. I like to taunt people like Chas because, really, what other power do I have? I have the power to make him think of me when he's fucking his girlfriend. Chas has all the rest. Chas will graduate from law school and make lots of money and the most I can hope for is that he'll still vote liberal so that when things get too bad people like me can get a bed at a state-sponsored rehab.
My mom used to say to me, "Pretty is as pretty does."
She's like the fucking cliché almanac, my mom. But she was pretty, too. Prettier than me even because she wasn't as tall and broad in the shoulders as I am. I watched her and decided that it wasn't true. Pretty isn't what pretty does. Pretty just is. Pretty is pretty and it can get you a few things. And it doesn't last long so whatever the hell you can get with it while you have it, go ahead and get it.
So that's all I was doing. Just trying to use what I had to wring the last electrical charge out of a night that was fast slipping through my fingers while Aaron turned his face away. When I remember it now I can almost see the red lights glowing in my eyes, the flecks of foam at the corners of my mouthsome animatronic horrible girlfriend monster.
I hopped up and sat on the edge of the pool table. I swung my legs and pouted.
"Be my savior, Chas. No one else is volunteering. Tell me. Did I win?"
I let it run right off the rails; let it get all out of hand. My love for Aaron was so acid it scraped my veins raw. He twinkled his liquid chocolate eyes at some other bitch, waiting a beat before he turned to me after I called out to him. I loved him so hard right then that I wanted him dead is the truth of it.
I could always see Aaron's head over the others in the bar. He was an explosion of dreadlocks and gangly limbs. He had an enigmatic not-white-not-black thing going on that inspired strangers to constantly ask him, "What are you?" Which bugged him to no end. I mean, what kind of question is that? He would simply answer, "I'm Aaron." He was nobody's easy anything.
Thick, black-rimmed eyeglasses cemented his face in place, but otherwise he was constant motion, constant, easy, seamless motion. And me, I was a long redhead glowing next to him like some Irish peasant from an old painting. What I thought when he stood behind me with his arms clasped around my waist in front of the full-length mirror was that I was something more glorious than I ever had been before. Someone I didn't recognize.
Aaron did love me. But not, I think, like I loved him. Not so that it twisted him ugly and desperate.
"You Shook Me All Night Long" came on the jukebox and it is a universal law that all strippers must dance whenever that song comes on no matter where they are. And that's what I was by thenan exotic dancer out at Jet Strip by the airport. I had meant it to be an emergency measure, something to get us by until Aaron could score another gig.
When I met him, Aaron was playing the horn on tour with Billy Coyote, a pretty well-known jazz guitarist. One humid Thursday in July he had walked into Rusty's where I worked in Toledo. My real pop was a horn player, too. There's a lot I can't remember about him, but I remember hearing him play. I live my life now with two trumpet songs like sad angel voices in my headAaron's and my pop's. Sometimes I can't remember anymore whose horn was whose, except that Aaron had a flaw that Billy berated him mercilessly for. He could be tentative with how he finished a phrase. Sometimes when Aaron took the horn from his lips you had the sense of another note hovering somewhere in a parallel universe, a note he could have chosen but didn't. Not so with my pop. He always hurled himself at the finish line.
When I first started working at Rusty's, Rusty had called me into the back office and showed me old pictures she'd kept of my pop. He was tall like me, taller than the other guys on the cramped stage. In my favorite picture, my pop is blowing his heart out in the smoke haze blue spotlight. Wide-collared suit, a lock of greased hair falling in his face, forehead glistening with sweat, eyes closed. I wondered where, in the Toledo I knew, was anyone half as cool. If I met someone as cool as that, I vowed I would follow him wherever he went.
And then in walked Aaron. When Aaron's band left Toledo the next morning that was exactly what I did. I climbed into the bus with them. And when I say that pretty can get you a thing or two, that's what I mean. I mean it can get you a bus ride to the West Coast with a jazz musician who hardly knows you but might already be suspecting that he loves you. We were headed to San Francisco at the end of it all, Aaron had promised me. He told me there was even a church in San Francisco that had canonized John Coltrane. Clearly the place for us. So L.A. was never really the plan, but when we got stranded here and Billy's ex-girlfriend offered to help me get a job at the club where she worked, Aaron and I both thought it was a good idea. Here's another thing pretty can get youit can get you a job. Me being a stripper seemed real jazz to Aaron, kind of picturesque and romantic. That's how it was in our minds before I started.
Aaron and I strolled with our fingers intertwined down Hollywood Boulevard to pick out the shoes, while I wondered where the hell San Francisco had gone. Wondered what the hell Pastor Dan would say if he could see me now. Wondered how we had wound up in this desert buying a pair of heels to go hit the airport clubs for work. Wondered how many other girls had thought the very same thing walking into the very same store. I opted for the black shiny ones with the platforms and the long, thin, tapered heels. They're remarkably durable. You can get most of the scuffs out with alcohol. Dancing was another one of those choices I made that I didn't know until way later what it really meant.
By that night at Raji's a year and some change ago, dancing had shifted from an emergency measure to just being my deal. It was what I did, and I couldn't remember anymore what I had started out wanting to do. Had I wanted to be a singer? A jazz wife? A California bohemian? I don't think I wanted to be a drunken stripper. Not that it was so bad, but it wasn't so good. I mean, what it does to how you look at your real boyfriend. How all that lying all night long and all the laps of all the men can make you kind of angry and how being angry and smiling is a bad habit to get into. You can blow up and do something cruel one night. You can do something stupid that maybe you'll regret forever and that will ruin the rest of your whole life.
So "You Shook Me All Night Long" came on the jukebox just as Chas looked at me all starry-eyed, like the dork he was, and said, "Yes. You won."
"You're saying I'm a winner?"
"You are."
"Well, we should celebrate, don't you think?"
I held his gaze, got up on the pool table, recently cleared of balls by the game I had won, and handed him my pink heels. He held them away from his body like they were either worth two billion dollars or they were on fire and he couldn't decide which.
"Now, don't get all crazy and go drinking champagne out of those, 'cause I might need to walk home in them if Aaron keeps acting like an ass."
I gave him a wink. He was so easy. All Aaron's friends were jazzmen and phony intellectuals and chatty college girls. I would never fit in with them so I settled for the next best thing and acted the wild one. Sometimes it was true.
I danced there, my bare feet on the green felt, flipping my hair back, swaying my hips, and leaning with one hand onto the low, swinging lamp. The glowing green platform was the only gash of color floating in a brown bar full of gray smoke. Glasses of one amber liquid or another reflected people's faces all distorted on their curved surfaces. Wafts of a bad smell you just ignored blew over from the direction of the crowded bathroom.
Aaron finally walked over and stood in front of me, looking concerned or annoyed or something. Chas left my shoes on the edge of the table and melted into the crowd. Aaron's forehead creased in the uneven way that it did when he was disturbed. He held his arms out to me like you would to a kid on a high wall, in that way that means jump and I'll catch you. I kept dancing and he stood there and I see him now like that, his arms extended to me, but he is moving backward away from me, getting smaller and smaller, and I am high above him, higher than the pool table even, and he is falling down a dark well. He held his arms out to me and it stopped me in mid dance move.
I ended my little performance, put my hands on his shoulders, and jumped off the table into his arms. He lifted me gently down by the waist like I was a ballerina, toes pointed, riding gracefully through the air. When I touched down I clasped my hands behind his neck and stood on his boots with my bare feet. Then, with his edges hugging mine, we danced slow like in an old movie. I don't know when he learned to dance like that or when I did. I understood that it meant we were starting over.
But even with the missteps of the evening forgiven, even with a fresh start, I was hungry and falling apart. When I was with Aaron, my molecules vibrated so fast that they flew off their gravitational path. I split into a thousand humming pieces. I closed my eyes and swam in a black velvet galaxy with no floor beneath me while I braced for my impact with the bottom. I remember thinking: I don't know if I can live with this.
We held on to each other for a minute like that, swaying dreamlike in a bubble. The rest of the room went quiet and it was just us. And if I could rewind it, I would rewind it to there.
I broke the mood and put one leg up around him, grinding on him like he was a customer. I was laughing; I was joking around, but he didn't think it was funny and he pushed me off.
"What's the matter? You want to fuck her?" I asked, meaning Madison.
"What are you talking about? Why do you always have to ruin shit?"
We were making a scene, but it was a bar where scenes happened pretty regular. He acted superior, pretending like he was holding it together, but I could tell he was all tilted and too high and too drunk, same as me.
Aaron was into the drugs but he wasn't starving hungry need more all the time like I was. He usually kept it a little more in control, but that night he didn't. That night he was gone.
"Don't tell me how to talk, asshole. Maybe you want to talk to your fancy friend over there instead. I'm sure there's some French fucking film she's dying to discuss with you. I'm out of here," I said, fumbling for the keys in my purse, hopping and putting on my shoes as I left. I was always testing him, wanting him to stop me.
He followed me out the door and we stood on the trash-strewn sidewalk, illuminated by the headlights whizzing by.
"Give me the keys," he said. "You can't drive."
"You know who I'm talking about. You want to fuck her, you should do it. I fuck other people. Whoever I want. You don't own me. You're not my father. So go ahead."
It was a lie. I never touched anyone else if you don't count work. And you don't count work. I don't know why I said it. Maybe to see if I could make him really lose it. Maybe to measure how much he cared by how bad it could get. I was going to tell him later that I had been kidding.
Aaron grabbed my wrist hard and twisted until I dropped the keys. He leaned down to snatch them and when he stood back up I swung my arm to try to knock them out of his hand but I cuffed him square on the side of the head instead, throwing him sideways off balance. He was so calm when he righted himself that I could have sworn I knocked him sober. He turned and walked down the street and I trotted after him, trying to keep up with his long steps. I didn't want to be left behind.
"Don't say another word," he said, flat and mean. "Just get in the car."
I already regretted what I'd said, but I was still high with self-righteous fury so I wasn't about to retract it yet. I practically believed my own lie. And why shouldn't I, anyway? Why shouldn't I fuck other people? It might even the score a little bit. It might make him feel that private humiliation of knowing that you're not quite loved enough, not quite wanted enough, not quite important enough. It might make him hurt for a heartbeat like I hurt for him all the time.
There were no more words. I pulled my cheap Melrose Ave. dress out of the way of the heavy car door on Aaron's beat-up '68 Cadillac and slammed it closed. I settled down into silence, laying the bricks of a wall of indignation between us. I was convinced he was fucking that girl Madison. And if he wasn't already, then he wanted to. And even if it wasn't Madison, it had been hundreds of others and would probably be hundreds more. That's how I saw it. That's what happens to your eyes when you spend your nights in the laps of everyone else's husbands.
He gripped the wheel with both hands and glared straight ahead, teeth clenched so tight that I saw his jaw muscles twitch. I could tell he was livid, but he was also wasted. He held on to make the world stop spinning. I stubbornly sewed my mouth closed as he peeled out and headed too fast toward Sunset. I wasn't going to be the one to show weakness and tell him to slow down.
Then there was the red light and the momentum of the car, how he didn't stop. I think he simply didn't see it. He was concentrating so intensely on not weaving that he didn't even look up to see that the light was red.
I saw it coming and tried to yell for him to stop but I'm not sure the sound ever came out. It happened fast and hard. Not slow like some people say. Not slow enough to see my life pass before my eyes, whatever that means, and anyway I'm glad I didn't have to see that slide show.
It was a red minivan that T-boned us. Aaron's side completely caved in, crumpled like it was made of paper. I've seen the pictures. The impact was so massive that the van pushed the car forty feet and into a streetlight, which was what stopped us. My window was open is how my head didn't go through the glass but just got banged around pretty hard. The crash tossed me sideways and I collided with the door, then the dash. It was one of those old cars with only a bottom seat belt.
Aaron's door crushed in so far that he was practically in my lap and when I turned to see him there wasn't enough of him. Strings of blood hung off his face and off the ends of his hair and my first thought was his glasses—he lost his glasses. I grasped around for them but they were nowhere and anyway everything was turned inside out and I couldn't tell where I was reaching, what I was touching. He breathed gurgly sounds and I couldn't see his eyes through the wet, through the red. He wouldn't look at me. There was no world outside to see, only the diamond-studded spiderweb of the windshield.
I pushed open my side of the door as far as it would open, which was barely enough for me to slide out. I crawled away from the wreck over the glass on the pavement, which made a sound like ice dropped into warm water and seemed to crumble into dust under my weight. It didn't hurt at all. I was fine. I reached the wall of the storefront and propped myself against it, arranging my skirt modestly over my knees, and then I saw the blood streaked across my legs, the blood smeared across my lap. I wondered whose blood it was, where it came from. I looked at the shattered glass all around me, tiny triangles of it glinting in the streetlights. It was almost pretty. I clawed at my legs because they were suddenly unbearably itchy, and that was when I noticed all the shards that were ground into the skin along my shins, my knees, my palms.
By that time a crowd of people had gathered around. Concerned faces pushed in at me amid a sea of legs and an unintelligible chorus of low, freaked-out voices. When I saw that Aaron was still in the car, when I realized that I had left him alone in there, I stood to run back to him but I was too dizzy. I tried to crawl but the amoeba of people held me back. The sirens and the blue red blue red washed over me like forgetting and I couldn't see clear; the scene shifted in and out of focus like I was twisting the ring on a camera lens.
They had to open the top of the car up with one of those huge mechanical can openers to get him out. It made a sound like ripping the sky in half. It was then that I remembered to pray but my brain was all wrong. I couldn't remember my prayers. I could only mouth, "Please, Jesus," over and over and even that got fumbled up. My mouth was full of something that tasted like pennies.
The paramedics took Aaron away on a gurney and he was still slick and purple and streaming in blood like he had just been born. They cut his shirt open with scissors as they rolled him away.
They took me next to a hospital so fancy it was practically a hotel. The emergency room wasn't some decrepit free clinic like the ones I'd seen before, but instead it was nice and clean with warm colors and framed prints of the desert. Attractive nurses floated by in pink scrubs and clogs with clever patterned socks peeking out. It was near Easter. I remember little bunny socks. And I was all right, a concussion and two broken ribs and lacerations, a lot of lacerations. Pain stabbed at my side but I hovered somewhere far away from it in an opiate haze.
They told me I couldn't see Aaron yet. He was still in surgery. There was no way of knowing. It would be hours. I went over everything I wanted to say to him when he woke up. I'd apologize for everything and make it right. We would do better. We would start over. I succumbed to the brain rattle and to the morphine fuzz and faded away wondering how we would ever pay for it all.
I don't know how long it was before I woke up. Before I could slog through the heavy waters behind my eyes and find my way to a desk to ask where he was. Every breath I took felt like shards of glass had lodged themselves in between my ribs on my right side. The feeling was so convincing that I actually lifted my gown to check. And when I looked at my stomach, fish belly pale and mottled with strange bruises, I remembered a dream I'd had. I dreamed of the accident, except that when the paramedics came I was still in the car. I was entirely bisected by a pane of glass, straight through the stomach, straight through the seat belt. I knew they could never remove it because if they did I'd split in two like a magician's assistant after a trick gone horribly wrong.
Dragging my IV next to me, I padded down the hallway in my bare feet to see Aaron behind the last doorway on the right. The hallway wasn't long enough. I was at the last door on the right too fast. The hall smelled like floor cleaner and like cooked food in plastic lids and it made me gag a little. I walked in.
What I saw was, he was smaller, sizes smaller, shrunken. My Aaron whose feet hung off the bottom of every bed. How did he shrink?
He lay alone in a room so small it looked like a monk's cell. There were bandages all around his basketball-sized head and over most of his face. What little skin he had that wasn't bruised purple looked white. Not white like a white person but white like the dust on a red grape.
His bed nearly filled the room, which didn't smell of food like the hallway but smelled of nothing at all. He was attached to some mobile contraptiona fake set piece with mechanical breathing noises like Darth Vader and those green moving mountain range beeping lines. The front of his head was shaved and the few dreadlocks that were left escaped from his bandages like dark ropes on the white pillow. A child's drawing of a sun with the lines bursting out around it that means shining.
The sheet only covered him to his waist. His arm was in a brace and a block of white plaster encased his leg. His sunken, nearly hairless chest moved mechanically up and down. He looked uncomfortable, like they had laid him down awkwardly with his one good arm partially wedged underneath him. Everything was off kilter and too crowded. His eyes were slightly open, half-moons of white. He shook epileptically. The shaking is what you don't see on the TV comas. A thick breathing tube obscured his mouth.
First thing I did was stand there like someone had hit me in the face.
Second thing I did was I cried. I laid my head on his chest and cried and hoped my tears would spark him awake like the snow on the poppies in The Wizard of Oz.
I talked to Jesus a lot in those days. That was before I stopped bothering. So the third thing I did was I fell to my knees on the cold linoleum and prayed to Jesus like I never had before. I pressed my bandaged palms together and prayed with all my heart to Jesus Christ to please save his life. Promised Jesus that if he would only be with Aaron right then, if he would only wake him up, that we'd be spiritually reborn. Just save his life and we'll live in the light of God's love and never stray again.
When I talked to Jesus that was how it came out. It was etched into my brain that way after so many years at Zion Pentecostal. So when I wanted to talk my own way I sometimes talked to my pop. Because even though I knew that Jesus was boundless compassion, that Jesus was love, that Jesus was forgiveness, still somewhere I thought that maybe a dad who loved me crazy but still drank himself to death would offer forgiveness of a different sort.
So, I prayed to my dad. Pop, I fucked up. Pop, I'm sorry I did this to me. Pop, can you help save his teeth, can you help save his hands? I didn't mean to be this. But we're not just this. You should see us in our dreams. You should hear him when he plays. I'm unforgivable but forgive me, forgive me.
In my peripheral vision I saw a nurse come in and stop in her tracks, hovering there, unsure of what to do. Hadn't she ever seen anyone pray before? I looked at his trembling body then turned to her.
"He's cold."
"No, he isn't."
"He's shaking. Can we please have another blanket?"
"He's not cold."
I put my hands to his bare chest and could feel against my wrists where my bandages ended that he was warmer than I was. I was so cold that furious goose bumps covered every exposed inch of my flesh. I placed one hand to his heart and one on his belly like I was a preacher with healing powers. Like I had seen work a hundred times before back home. You may doubt it; you may think it was some kind of a sham, but you'd be wrong. I know what I saw was real. Anyone could be a healer.
The nurse left the room.
The fourth thing I did was that when I was done praying to Jesus and my pop I talked to Aaron. I told him that I was just kidding what I had said. I told him that God was going to give us another chance. I told him that I would learn how to love better, that I wasn't sure how I had gotten it so wrong.
His thin frame shook and his rib cage moved up and down to the mechanical rhythm. Up and down. I can still hear it sometimes when I'm trying to sleep. I shake my head to make it stop. When I start to hear the ventilator, I get up, go downstairs, and turn on the TV.
After the strokes that stopped his brain, it was Aaron's mother who signed the paper to turn the machines off. She didn't speak much to me, but we sat together. We sat together with him when he died but that's the part I'd rather not get into now because that's the part that lives like an overhead projection superimposed over all of my days. When I first sobered up I actually tried banging my head on the wall to get rid of it, but the folks at the detox threatened to put me in a whole different level of lockdown if I didn't get a grip and anyway it didn't work, it just added a headache layer on top of the firebrand memory. Eventually what I figured out is that I can nudge it out of the way for a minute here and a minute there by pressing the rewind button and seeing instead the moment when I was on the pool table and my alive boyfriend stood in front of me and reached out his arms as if to say go ahead and fall. Fall and I'll catch you. And that was all I had ever wantedsomeone to catch me."Jillian Lauren writes with stunning, furious authenticity about self- destruction and the bitter road toward redemption. Pretty will knock the breath right out of you."
-Janelle Brown, author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
"An utterly riveting, and compulsively readable saga Jillian Lauren renders the taste and feel of wretched excess - be it sex, drugs, food, or Los Angeles - with a savage veracity and style all her own."
-Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight
Pretty deals heavily with addiction and Bebe's life in and out of Serenity. How did you go about constructing this book? What sort of research did you do? What drew you to the topic?
I always included details from my own life in my fiction. Though the narrative isn't autobiographical, Pretty is a collage of people I've known, places I've lived and questions I've struggled with.
Addiction is one of the themes of the book from which I drew heavily on personal experience. I've battled addiction issues for much of my life, as have many people I love. I think addiction is a trope that eloquently expresses the compulsive rhythms of contemporary culture. Addiction is also a great vehicle with which to explore the theme of faith. Substance abuse is a monstrous, ruinous thing and it's nearly impossible to overcome without a profound shift of consciousness on the part of the addict. I suppose there are ways other than faith to achieve that shift, but I personally don't know of any.
However, there are aspects of Pretty that required more formal research, such as the worlds of mental illness and religion.
The book is told from Bebe's point of view. How did you go about building a "voice" for Bebe? What was the most challenging part about being in her head?
The voice of a particular work is usually the first thing that comes to me, and that was certainly true for Pretty. I can always tell that I've got a new project brewing when there's a voice in my head clamoring to be heard and that voice isn't mine. Voice is actually the most mysterious part of the writing process for me, because the formulation of it isn't conscious and it's not a function of craft or discipline or any of those other things that come into play later on. When it comes to the voice of a character, I think of myself more as a channel or a conduit and figure my job is just to open up and listen
Los Angeles is framed as an unintended landing place for Bebe. What is your personal experience in L.A. and how much did it inform the writing of this book?
Unlike Bebe, I moved to Los Angeles intentionally. But I never intended to stay. Yet ten years later here I am and a move doesn't seem to be anywhere on the horizon. So I guess Bebe's relationship with Los Angeles and with her whole environment is about my own experience of finding a home in an unexpected place. That theme is so important that Los Angeles turns into almost another character in the book.
There's a fair amount of attention to beauty, "prettiness," or traditional notions of what "pretty" means. Where do you stand on the culturally constructed idea of prettiness in this country? What did you want to say through this novel?
My own relationship with culturally constructed beauty ideals is complex and I wouldn't say that I have a clear-cut ethical stance on the matter. But I do recognize the damage these ideals can do to a woman's concept of self-worth. Pretty is set in the world capital of the over-valuation of physical beauty. Bebe is dealing in with feeling twisted and ugly, so that's set into stark relief by the value system that permeates the culture around her.
At the same time, much of the humor and friendship in the book happens at the beauty college Bebe attends. So while Bebe's struggle with beauty leads her to some very dark places, it also provides a context for the wisdom that eventually becomes her salvation.
What are you working on now?
I'm working on a book about how we construct identity, as explored through the subject of adoption.
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Consequences of a Burger, Fries, and A Diet SodaPosted: Thursday, February 07, 2008
Middle-age adults who regularly eat a double burger, fries, and a diet soda for lunch or dinner increase their risk of incident metabolic syndrome by 25% compared with those who limit red meat to two servings a week.
But eating healthy doesn't reduce the odds of developing metabolic syndrome, said Lyn M. Steffen, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., of the University of Minnesota, who studied the eating habits of more than 9,514 middle-age Americans.
Dr. Steffen reported that, after nine years of follow-up, 3,782 of the participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study had three or more of the risk factors that are used to define metabolic syndrome.
Unlike other studies that have investigated relationships between nutrients and cardiovascular risk, "we specifically studied food intake, since when we start to think about making recommendations it is easier to do so using the framework of real foods, eaten by real people," Dr. Steffen said.
The researchers assessed food intake using a 66-item food frequency questionnaire administered at three-year intervals. From the responses to those questions, they were able to categorize people into a Western-pattern diet or a prudent-pattern diet.
A Western diet contained high amounts of refined grains, processed meat, fried foods, red meat, eggs, and soda with little consumption of low-fat dairy products, fruits, and vegetables. Prudent eating patterns, by contrast, favored cruciferous vegetables, carotinoid vegetables, fruit, fish and seafood, poultry, and whole grains, along with low-fat dairy products. At baseline from 1987 through 1989, the study participants were between 45 and 64 years old, a population at risk for weight gain, which is associated with metabolic syndrome.
"After adjusting for demographic factors, smoking, physical activity, and energy intake, consumption of a Western dietary pattern (PtrendˇÜ0.03) was adversely associated with incident [metabolic syndrome]," the researchers found.
When they analyzed the results by specific foods, they found that meat , fried foods, and diet soda were all significantly associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome, but consumption of dairy products -- especially yogurt and low-fat milk -- was beneficial.
Regular soda, which Dr. Steffen said was expected to increase risk of metabolic syndrome, was not associated with increased risk.
Dr. Steffen said the soda findings might reflect poorer glycemic control, which has been reported in other studies of diet sodas. Moreover, she said a study in rats suggested that the consumption of artificial sweeteners "impairs the body's ability to predict the caloric content of foods, and may lead to increased intake and body weight."
Dr. Steffen said the association between a Western-type diet and metabolic syndrome, although expected, was nonetheless striking for some individual foods.
"For example, we looked specifically at french fries and found that eating one serving a day increased the risk of developing incident metabolic syndrome by 10%."
An unexpected finding was that consuming a prudent diet (i.e. one that had a high concentration of fruits, vegetables, whole grains) and low-fat dairy products did not reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome. "We had expected to see a benefit because we have seen a beneficial relationship in other studies," she said.
The researchers noted that their study was limited by its use of a questionnaire to calculate food intake, which may have allowed for reporting bias as well as misclassification of some foods. For example, the questionnaire was "not designed to differentiate whole grain from refined grain items in the food list," they wrote.
Practice pearl: Explain to interested patients that this study suggests that red meats, fried foods, and sweetened diet drinks may increase the risk of developing metabolic syndrome.
Source: Diabetes In Control: Lutsey PL, et al "Dietary intake and the development of the metabolic syndrome: the ARIC study" Circulation 2008; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.716159.
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Professionally, Ron Howard has come a long way from the tousle-haired, barefoot sheriff's son who trod the byways of idyllic Mayberry to reside in the heady company of Hollywood's most elite directors. Howard's films are pure entertainment; they are well-crafted efforts, frequently technically challenging from a production standpoint, and aimed at mainstream audiences. Though some of his lesser works have been criticized for possessing formulaic scripts, Howard's films approach even hackneyed subjects in fresh ways. Though he does not characterize himself as a risk taker, he loves the challenge of exploring different genres; therefore, his filmography includes B-movie actioners, domestic comedies, fantasies, sci-fi, suspense-thrillers, historical dramas, and big-budget action films.
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Everyone seem to be assuming that the only end-game here results in the student-athletes getting compensated going forward. What if the plaintiffs in this case receive compensation for past used of likeness, image, or name, and going forward the NCAA and member institutions (as well as sponsorship partners as well as TV and radio) is barred from using the likeness of any student-athlete in promotional or information advertising? Legitimate coverage of the game (or performance, meet, event, etc. ) would be acceptable but the NCAA, TV radio network, advertising partners and member institution can not profit directly from a particular player's likeness, name, number, image, or and representation.
NCAA athletes can pursue television money, judge rules
A California judge ruled Tuesday that the NCAA cannot prevent football and men's basketball players from legally pursuing a portion of live broadcast revenues, reports ESPN.com.
Judge Claudia Wilken rejected the NCAA's motion that players in the anti-trust suit led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon should be precluded from advancing their lawsuit on procedural grounds. The NCAA's filed a 33-page motion last October to strike the certification motion. A certification hearing has been set for June 20, and Wilken ordered the NCAA to make arguments against class certification on the merits rather than procedural objections.
"Now the (NCAA and its co-defendants) are facing potential liability in the billions of dollars instead of tens or hundreds of millions," said Michael Hausfeld, interim lead counsel for the plaintiffs. "It's a more accurate context for what the players deserve."
Players who play collegiate sports don't have a union to help them negotiate share of revenues that come from media and other licensing contracts. Plaintiffs in the O'Bannon suit sued the NCAA, Collegiate Licensing Company and EA Sports over the commercialized use of athletes' image, name and likeness.
"Although our motion to strike was denied, the judge has signaled skepticism on plaintiff's class-certification motion and recognized the plaintiffs' radical change in their theory of the case," NCAA general counsel Donald Remy said. "This is a step in the right direction toward allowing the NCAA to further demonstrate why this case is wrong on the law and that plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate that this case satisfies the criteria for class litigation."
So are all those schools who don't play football or dropped it going to be better off than those who have it?
I want to see this happen - the athletes being paid. There is certainly something in the 'unintended consequences' argument, and that should be considered as well, but the billions that NCAA schools have made off the players borders on the indecent. In fact, it IS indecent. See how the NCAA is already trying to spin the judges decision ('the judge has signaled skepticism') hoping to pretend they won here. They did not. And it is a major step in the right direction.
If the schools had of compromised and not been so blood thirsty greedy 25 or 30 years ago and just given these kids a monthly living expense in addition to scholarships,then this wouldn't be a possibility today! the University's brought this on their self's!!!
Finally a step in the right direction. They, as well as coaches and school administrators, hide behind the farce of education while feeding like bloated leeches off the work that these kids do for free.
The NCAA needs to die.
Oh dear. Unintended consequences will be disastrous here. Despite excellent arguments by Branch and others, this sort of outcome will, much as Lynn suggests, mean the death of the nonrevenue sports. Remember, as it is, only a handful of Division I schools turn a profit.
Remember, when the football and basketball players win the right to take the money, that will be the end of the scholarships in baseball, softball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's track and field, both indoor an outdoor, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's ice hockey, field hockey, men'a and women's tennis, lacrosse, men's and women's swimming and diving.....
And, that is even though the men's football and basketball players have scholarships worth into six figures, and that gives them a $1.5-2.0 MILLION DOLLAR future income advantage over non-college students.....
I completely disagree. These schools are making way to much money on the backs of college athletes. This is suppose to be college students playing for fun and a chance to eventually make it to the NBA if they show hard work and a talent to be in it. Not to go to a college and get paid to be there. It just turns college basketball into the NBA's potentail super minor league system where student athletes get paid to go to college. Wish all student athletes could do that. Whats wrong with the current amateur system for college athletes? Go after these schools for turning sports into such a money making system where they make millions off of the backs of the college student?
I hope athletes can get some compensation for what they do. These schools make so much money off these kids and it's a joke that the athletes can't get a little something, too. Their jerseys are sold in stores and their likenesses are on video games, and they can't profit off that? Who are the real crooks here?
@LynnRoberts Lynn, you are making some major assumptions on how this would play out. This can easily be done without hurting non-profit sports or involving Title IX issues by not having the schools pay more, but letting boosters (or agents) take care of extra benefits. Andy Staples had a good article on this a few days back (the 24th I think). Here is an excerpt from that article:
"The best solution remains something similar to what has long been advocated by ESPN basketball analyst -- and attorney and former student-athlete -- Jay Bilas. Embrace the same model as the Olympics. In 2011, I offered a truncated rewrite of the NCAA rulebook that would incorporate the Olympic model. Don't allow schools to pay more -- this takes care of the tax and Title IX issues -- but allow anyone else to pay any athlete they choose. Yahoo! columnist Dan Wetzel proposed a similar system on Wednesday."
I recommend his article and it has links to his 2011 article and Wetzel's column. It even addresses some of your inevitable concerns or counter-arguments.
@LynnRoberts Schools could always choose to not play football...
@jdgaucho09 But, then they won't have enough money to field ANY of the other 26 sports....even though the schools get basketball money, if they field the minimum required 14 sports, that means about 150 full scholarships, about $3 MILLION a year in costs, before you add in the facilities, salaries, and other expenditures....there won't be enough money for the other sports...
And, Title IX won't even be close to being met...
@Stuart3 @LynnRoberts @mjw149 We won't be alone if that happens. Or maybe we'll be fine regardless since we don't play football.
@jdgaucho09 @LynnRoberts @mjw149 You are part of the UC system that makes millions on college sports. Say goodbye to your favorite sports team.
@LynnRoberts @mjw149 @LynnRoberts @jdgaucho09 Hard to be jealous of a football success. UCSB has not played since '92. We've done okay in basketball though.
@mjw149 @LynnRoberts @jdgaucho09 You are right. The hundred-thousands of athletes on scholarships in the non revenue sports can go back to doing what they did before. Many will be successful in their lives, even go to college. Just as many won't have that chance. Your jealous of the success of football and basketball. I'm proud of their success because it helped those like me have their chance not only to play a sport at a very high level but to become successful in the rest of my life. That chance may not have been there if not for their success.
@LynnRoberts @jdgaucho09 Oh, no, they'll have to go back to education to make a living and stop being millionaires running a lucrative minor league sport.
The horror!
@LynnRoberts We make it work. Gonzaga, VCU and George Mason make it work. There aren't too many other examples but they do exist.


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SHERIDAN — An arrest has been made in connection with a two-alarm fire early Wednesday morning that destroyed a rural Sheridan home at 16955 E. Rock Creek Road.
Brittany Rene Paschke, 23, who was living at the residence, was charged with one count each of first-degree arson, reckless burning and recklessly endangering anothere person. First-degree arson is a Class A felony and Measure 11 offense punishable by a mandatory minimum prison sentence on conviction.
Paschke was also wanted on a Marion County warrant for driving under the influence of intoxicants.
The fire was reported about 2:30 a.m., according to Sheridan Fire District spokesperson Wesley Rolfson. The first arriving unit reported the home was fully involved. An undetermined number of occupants were not home at the time.
Firefighters had the blaze under control in about 50 minutes, and a majority of the units were released at about 6.
The Yamhill County Fire Investigation Team was called out to determine a cause.
Seven pieces of equipment from the Amity, Sheridan and West Valley fire districts and 29 firefighters were on scene. Units and personnel from McMinnville and West Valley covered the Sheridan station.
The 728-square-foot, two bedroom/one bath home is owned by Stanley and Victoria Turnidge of Amity, according to the Yamhill County Assessor's office. It was built in 1938.
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PORTLAND — Lawyers for the Portland Pirates and the Cumberland County Civic Center will face off in court Wednesday morning over whether a valid lease exists for the hockey team to play in the arena this winter.
Neal Pratt, chairman of the Cumberland County Civic Center trustees, in a 2013 file photo. The civic center and Portland Pirates have begun firing salvos in court at each other, as the two sides struggle to reach a new lease agreement.
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In this 2011 file photo, Portland Pirates CEO Brian Petrovek announces the Phoenix Coyotes as the Portland Pirates' new parent club at the Cumberland County Civic Center.
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The two sides will appear in Cumberland County Business Court to seek an agreement in the Pirates' request for an injunction to force the civic center to let the team play there once a $34 million renovation of the building is completed in January.
The Pirates sued the civic center last week, claiming that a five-year lease agreement that the two sides announced in April is valid.
In a response filed in court Tuesday, the civic center's board of trustees said the two sides agreed only on the broad outlines of a lease in April, and that the board explicitly said more negotiations were needed.
The trustees' response also says that no documents were signed, and that a resolution passed by the board at the time said a final agreement would be subject to another vote by the trustees.
"The Pirates made a legal and tactical decision in the negotiating process that they do not now like the consequences of," the trustees say in the response. "The Pirates have manufactured this 'crisis.'"
The Pirates contend that the agreement announced in April constitutes a valid lease. The civic center responded that that is "demonstrably false," citing emails and lease proposals that were exchanged throughout the summer as evidence that the deal was not final in April.
Courts don't recognize "agreements to agree," the trustees say in the filing, and the civic center should not be required "to perform under the terms of an alleged lease agreement that was never reached."
The filing says that hours after the board approved a resolution outlining the "bullet points" of the deal in April, the managing owner of the Pirates appeared to suggest that he knew the terms weren't complete.
The board passed a resolution on the major points of the agreement April 17. A few hours later, Brian Petrovek, the Pirates' managing owner, said in an email that he planned to begin selling season tickets for 2013-14, "but understand the deal needs to be finalized and signed accordingly in the near future."
Petrovek did not return calls for comment Tuesday. Harold J. Friedman, the lawyer for the Pirates, and Dave Barry, who is handling the lawsuit for the civic center, declined to comment.
Jamie Schwartz, the civic center trustees' lawyer, responded to Petrovek's email, saying that Petrovek could use his own judgment about the two sides' ability to reach the final agreement, and that any steps Petrovek took would be "at your and the Pirates' sole risk."
The loose ends that remained after the announcement in April unraveled further, and the two sides exchanged lease proposals regularly throughout the summer. The civic center sent Petrovek a final offer on Aug. 27 and said he had to sign the lease within 48 hours.
Neither Schwartz nor Neal Pratt, the chairman of the civic center's trustees, returned calls for comment Tuesday.
At issue is revenue from concessions and advertising.
The deal in April called for the Pirates to get 57.5 percent of all concession revenue, but the civic center was told by state authorities in June that the Pirates couldn't share revenue from alcoholic beverages because the team is not on the arena's liquor license.
Under the previous lease, the team received no revenue from concessions.
The civic center later offered 65 percent of the revenue from sales of food and non-alcoholic beverages. Petrovek rejected it, saying it would not make up for the lost revenue from alcohol sales.
According to the civic center's figures for 2012-13, the 65 percent formula means significantly less money for the Pirates.
Based on those figures, the Pirates would have gotten about $10,000 per game under the formula that covered all concession sales.
Under the 65 percent formula, including only food and non-alcoholic beverages, the Pirates would get less than $6,600 a game.
In the papers filed Tuesday, the civic center's lawyer called the proposals "equivalent."
The two sides also are at odds over advertising revenue, specifically from "sub-naming" rights for portions of the civic center, such as the ice and luxury suites.
The Pirates claim the deal's provision to give the team half of the "above-the-ice" advertising revenue includes money for the sub-naming rights. The civic center contends the revenue from those and other naming rights belongs to the civic center exclusively.
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Darlington a challenge to Danica Patrick's NASCAR progress
Danica Patrick is still far from being one of the top drivers in NASCAR. In fact, there remain legitimate doubts as to whether she can ever become a consistent contender. But for those who think she is little more than a marketing maven with limited racing skills, the 43rd lap in Sunday's race at Talladega Superspeedway indicates otherwise.
As the pack roared into turn one at nearly 200 miles per hour, contact between Kyle Busch and Kasey Kahne trigged one of those multi-car collisions that is common at Talladega and that inevitably sweeps several innocent bystanders into the carnage. It appeared that Patrick was going to be one of those unlucky drivers, as cars were spinning and sliding all around her.
That is when Patrick showed something that her critics often claim she doesn't have: true racing talent and instincts. She listened to her spotter and drove down to the bottom of the track onto the apron. Weaving back and forth to avoid other cars, she at one point barely swerved in time to miss Busch. Then when she found her path blocked by several wrecked machines, she managed to come almost to a complete stop before turning back up the track and clearing the danger. It was a series of moves that amazed even Patrick's crew chief, Tony Gibson.
"We were watching and we were like, 'Holy cow.' She just kept aiming for the empty hole," Gibson said. "I don't know how she missed (Busch) there at the end. She said she got loose when she got on the first apron. Then when she got on the flat, she got real loose. How she survived, I have no idea."
Contrast that with one year ago, when Patrick went to Darlington Raceway -- site of this week's race -- for only her second career Sprint Cup start. Darlington is nothing like the traditional 1.5-mile ovals that Patrick became accustomed to racing on during her time in IndyCar. It is a quirky, egg-shaped 1.36-mile track that challenges even veteran racers, which is why it has gained the reputation of being the track that is "too tough to tame."
In order to get around Darlington quickly, a driver has to race close to the wall, especially when sweeping through turns one and two. Patrick didn't do that last year. The path she took through those turns was several feet down the track from the preferred line. As a result, even though she finished the race, she was consistently running a few miles per hour slower than most of the field. It steadily added up to the point where she finished in 31st place, six laps off the pace.
Patrick admitted at the time that she found it mentally difficult to race that close to the wall. "My comfort level with the wall is definitely medium. I don't think that even in IndyCar I liked being up by the wall," she said. "There are drivers definitely more comfortable than I am. And at Darlington, you're not using the wall as a reference. You're riding the wall. It's a whole new level of getting comfortable with it."
It will be interesting to see how Patrick performs on her return there this week. Her eighth-place finish in this year's Daytona 500 and her ability to avoid trouble at Talladega on Sunday -- at least until she got caught up in a bigger wreck during the final laps -- indicates that she has become a quick learner at restrictor-plate tracks. She also pulled off a 12th-place finish earlier this season at Martinsville, a short track that is considered to be one of the most difficult on the circuit.
Now we will find out whether the lady in green can handle the Lady in Black (as Darlington is also known). It will be another important step in Patrick's progression, and an indicator of whether her future in the sport might extend beyond merely her appeal to fans and advertisers.
1. Jimmie Johnson (1st previously) -- Should we go ahead and just fill in Johnson in the top spot for the rest of the season? A solid fifth-place run at Talladega gives him seven top-10 finishes through the first 10 races.
2. Carl Edwards (3rd) -- Whatever funk affected Edwards last year appears to be over. He nearly won at Talladega, a place where he usually struggles, and has not finished worse than 18th since the Daytona 500 (with a victory and five top-fives along the way).
3. Kasey Kahne (2nd) -- He was wrecked by Kyle Busch early in Sunday's race and finished 42nd. He can't be penalized more than one spot in our power rankings for a wreck that was not his fault.
4. Clint Bowyer (4th) -- An uneventful day for the two-time Talladega winner. He started 20th, finished 18th, and never led a lap. Still, it was his fifth top-20 showing in the past six races.
5. Matt Kenseth (7th) -- He had the dominant car at Talladega, but was unable to hold on to the lead on the green-white-checkered restart. He remains only 11th in the standings, but would be third if not for an earlier 50-point penalty.
6. Brad Keselowski (5th) -- The defending champ continues to slump after starting the season with four consecutive top-five finishes. He has not had a one since then, and has failed to crack even the top-10 in three of the past six races.
7. Aric Almirola (unranked) -- Don't laugh. It is time to take Almirola seriously as a legitimate Chase contender. The Richard Petty Motorsports driver has ripped off four consecutive top-10s, and in the process has jumped from 16th to seventh in the point standings.
8. Kyle Busch (6th) -- Since picking up two victories in a three-race span, Busch has posted consecutive finishes of 38th, 24th and 37th. His refusal to back off for even a second when Kahne moved in front of him on Sunday resulted in a crash only 43 laps into the race.
9. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (9th) -- His string of mediocre finishes continued with a 17th-place showing at Talladega, a track that he used to dominate. It was his fifth consecutive finish of 10th or worse.
10. Martin Truex Jr. (unranked) -- His seventh-place finish at Talladega gives him three top-10s in the past four races. That's good enough to squeeze him past Kevin Harvick and Paul Menard for the final spot in these rankings. And keep an eye on Jeff Gordon, who is showing flashes of returning to form.


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