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Correction: People-Josh Groban story
NEW YORK (AP) — In a story July 2 about Josh Groban, The Associated Press reported erroneously that "Rising Star" allowed for real-time viewing instead of real-time voting.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Josh Groban shows he's more than a big voice
Thanks to gigs like hosting 'Rising Star,' Josh Groban shows he's more than a big voice
By ALICIA RANCILIO
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Groban admits he was hesitant to show that he was more than a guy with a big voice who could perform sweeping ballads.
"For so much of my career I think I was a little bit protective of the brand or the image of the voice," he said in a recent interview. "And that's half of me. But I think I've been less afraid to let my freak flag fly a little bit — it has waved gloriously in the wind — and it's been fun."
Groban, 33, has shown his quick wit and easygoing personality on social media and as a guest host on "Live With Kelly!" before Michael Strahan was named Kelly Ripa's permanent co-host.
"I scoffed at Twitter when it first started. I was like, 'Oh god, this is ... not what I do,'" he said. "I was having a high-and-mighty thing about it, and then I started doing it and I realized that I could send a tweet like I send a text, and every time I make my friends laugh and they'd go, 'Man, nobody knows how funny you are,' and I'd go, 'No, no, no, well they couldn't. They couldn't possibly know. I have a billboard of me staring at them from a desert and my new Christmas album is climbing the charts. They can't possibly know that I have a funny bone.'"
Now he realizes "we're not all one thing."
Groban credits late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel for recognizing his comedic abilities.
"People like Jimmy Kimmel have been unbelievable to me in giving me skits and funny sketches to do when nobody else was giving me couch time because they just assumed with my style of music, I wouldn't have a personality," he said.
Now he's stepping further outside his comfort zone as host of ABC's new singing competition series, "Rising Star," with Brad Paisley, Kesha and Ludacris (Sundays, 9 p.m. EDT). The show has an interactive element by allowing real-time voting.
Groban understands why some people might be hesitant to tune into the show because they feel the market is too saturated with music competitions, but hopes they'll give it a shot.
"I wouldn't have signed on to it if I didn't think that this was gonna be different, that it was gonna be fun and funny and exciting," he said.
"Now if people are just sick of the genre, I would say ... give it a chance. ... Give it a shot. Watch it. Hopefully, we'll keep you around."
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Caroline R. Pettit, age 52, of Matamoras, PA, passed away Saturday, June 22, at the Orange Regional Med. Center, Middletown, NY.
She was born on March 11, 1961 in Port Jervis, the daughter of Edgar "Pete" Pettit and the late Inge Farniok Pettit.
Caroline worked as a Bank Manager for Citizens in Port Jervis. She graduated from Delaware Valley High School as salutatorian. She continued her education at Scranton University, graduating with her BA in Business. She was a faithful member of St. Joseph's R.C. Church, in Matamoras.
Caroline is survived by her father, Edgar "Pete" Pettit, at home; and several cousins, aunts and uncles.
Friends may call Tuesday, June 25th, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Knight-Auchmoody Funeral Home, 154 E. Main St., Port Jervis, NY. The Vigil Wake Service will be held at 5:15 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Wednesday, June 26th, at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's R.C. Church, Matamoras, PA, Rev. August Ricciardi will be the celebrant. Interment will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery, Port Jervis.
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Normally I wouldn't post something like this, but since it's all over Usenet and several popular web sites already, I don't see that there's much harm in passing it on. The cat's already out of the bag.
It appears that Red Hat 8.0, which is scheduled for official release on Monday, has somehow been leaked onto the Internet and is showing up on mirrors tonight. It can be found here. I can confirm that there are 5 ISOs labeled Red Hat 8.0 (Psyche) and that the release notes on CD1 say Red Hat 8.0.
Beyond that, you're on your own as I have neither the time nor the desire to download and install an entire Red Hat release (especially 5 CDs) just to verify its legitimacy. Personally, I will wait a while before I try a .0 release - or any other, for that matter. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. My Gentoo box is rocking along just fine, thanks.


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It's little surprise that Microsoft service technicians listed human error as the cause of most computer problems in a recent survey. It's not like they are going to blame, you know, the bug-free operating system produced by the company.
It would be easy for me to poke fun at Microsoft's track record of shuffling of responsibility as an example of why this might be wrong. Anyone remember the General Protection Fault error? It's the one that said "This computer has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down," as if you just used your old x86 machine to cook up a batch of bathtub gin.
However, from my tech support experience, both officially and unofficially, I have to admit that most of the time, humans are to blame. Here are some classic examples of problems given to me and their simple solutions.
Problem: My computer seems to boot up and make noise, and the drive light flashes. But the monitor is blank.
Solution: User did not turn monitor on.
Problem: My computer refuses to dial into the Internet. I've checked and I have a dial tone on my phone and all my proxy settings are correct, yet it refuses to connect.
Solution: Phone line not connected to computer.
Problem: My mouse has stopped working. My cursor is only halfway across the screen, but my mouse is at the end of its pad and can't go any further.
Solution: Pick up the mouse and reposition it to get more space. (I really had to struggle to fix this one with a straight face for my boss at the time.)
Of course, those are some extreme examples, and they come from a relatively ancient computing era. But even when you are talking about slow performance because of a virus or malware, it's still ultimately a human error. A human programmed the virus and another human did something to allow that program onto their system.
In fact, the main reason phishing scams are so popular these days is because it's so much easier to trick a human into doing something stupid than it is to identify and exploit a hardware or software fault. If you tell a hundred people to turn off their anti-virus program and install spyware, a surprising number will actually do it even if, on some level, they know it's wrong.
Now, I won't let Microsoft or any other computer company completely off the hook. Some of the biggest, longest fixes often involved device conflicts, memory errors and things almost completely out of a user's control. But the Microsoft survey breaks it down into 80 percent user error and 20 percent hardware/software errors. I think that's about right.
The only thing is that, from a technician's point of view, they will probably spend 20 percent of their time fixing user errors, which are often rather quick, and 80 percent doing the really hard stuff that involves hardware and software problems.
So from the trenches, there is always room for improvement. Plus, if the software were easier to use or more intuitive, it could reduce user error by a bit more as well.
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Microsoft is a Hackers dream come true, a forensic tech joke.
I was in the Air Force for 10 yrs as an engine mechanic and one day during the debrief of a pilot I over heard a communication spec talking to a pilot. He said the UHF raido did not work in the "Offical Mode", when asked to show where the knob position on the radio was pointing to, he was shown the OFF position. I had heard the corrective action was remove and replace pilot.
federal govt (especially DoD) gave microsoft a defacto monopoly. the only way to eliminate the low quality is to use linux, freebsd, solaris, opensolaris, etc. and force MS to improve through market competition.
Does not work in the O-F-F position. That said, it can be argued that every problem is human error since software cannot malfunction without a human created glitch. I love to bash Microsoft but the reality is that all of the operating systems have issues and the hardware isn't much better in design. Systems (hardware and software) are built to the lowest common denominator without any thought to those of us that actually use our computers for more than checking email and Facebook.
Come on, Microsoft produces crap and gets away with it because corporate America is afraid to use any other tools.
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Carlo Ancelotti's appointment as Real Madrid manager will reportedly prompt Gonzalo Higuain's departure from the Santiago Bernabeu, with the striker set to secure a transfer to either Arsenal or Juventus.
According to The Independent, Higuain's proposed departure has been held up by Madrid's search for a new manager, with the club waiting until the appointment of Ancelotti before the player's transfer was sanctioned.
Ancelotti is expected to rubber-stamp the sale of the Argentina international, which could even happen within the next 24 hours, with Arsenal and Juventus the two clubs in contention to sign him.
Arsenal are reported to have already agreed personal terms with Higuain and are prepared to negotiate a club record transfer fee in order to bring the player to the Emirates Stadium.
Juventus, however, have also reportedly had their proposal accepted by Higuain, and the club prepared to bid the most money will be the one to capture the 25-year-old from Los Blancos.
Arsenal's record signing remains Andrey Arshavin - released by the club this summer - who signed for £15 million from Zenit St Petersburg in 2009, but are prepared to push beyond the £20 million mark to capture Higuain.
Juve, meanwhile, have also been credited with interest in Manchester City star Carlos Tevez, and the Gunners will be hoping the Italian giants focus on securing his signature rather than that of Higuain.
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Situated in the city center, this hotel is close to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Six Flags Magic Mountain, and Valencia Country Club. Area attractions also include Mountasia Family Fun Center.
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Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, a spa tub, and a business center.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Hilton Garden Inn Valencia Six Flags provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 1248 square feet (116 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a garden. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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An estimated one million undoumented immigrants with American citizens as immediate relatives will now be separated from their families for shortened amounts of time while they apply to become legal residents. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Beginning Mar. 4, illegal immigrants who can demonstrate that time apart from an American spouse, child, or parent would create "extreme hardship" can apply for a visa without leaving the United States. Once approved, applicants would be required to leave briefly in order to return to their native country and pick up their visa.
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I haven't seen this noted anywhere, but President Bush's approval ratings are on the rise again. These numbers from the Rasmussen poll are interesting. Bush bottomed out at 40% on Friday, after sliding steadily downhill through the month of October. Since then, however, he has bounced back to 45%, as of today.
I suspect that the improvement is mostly among Republicans, and relates primarily to Harriet Miers' withdrawal. Over the next few days, Bush's ratings should rise further in response to his nomination of Sam Alito.


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Unbeaten Dominicans win World Baseball Classic 3-0
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tony Pena passed around the shiny trophy and let all of his players offer their besitos, or little kisses. Robinson Cano passed around a phone as his teammates took turns receiving congratulations from Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina.
"We appreciate that from the president," Jose Reyes said. "This win is all about the Dominican Republic. They were hungry waiting for this moment, and we did it."
The Dominican Republic has its World Baseball Classic crown, at last.
Cheers of "Dominicana! Dominicana!" rang out through the rain at AT&T Park all the way to the lively streets of Santo Domingo.
Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run double in the first inning that held up, and the Dominicans capped a dominant, unbeaten run through the WBC with a 3-0 win against Puerto Rico for the championship Tuesday night.
"Tomorrow will be a national holiday," said Moises Alou, the proud Dominican general manager. "It was a tremendous win."
Cano earned MVP honors, Erick Aybar added an RBI double to back winner Samuel Deduno, and the demonstrative Dominican righty threw his arms into the air in delight after watching a run-saving defensive gem by center fielder Alejandro De Aza in a tough fifth.
The Dominican fans — fanaticos, indeed — didn't let the Bay Area's wet weather keep them from dancing in the stands, waving flags and tooting horns. Flags became makeshift ponchos.
It was fitting, too, perhaps, considering the World Series champion Giants clinched the NL pennant against the Cardinals in a downpour on this very field last fall.
Some 50,000 more supporters gathered to watch on televisions inside and outside of Estadio Quisqueya in the Dominican capital city.
"We want to enjoy every single moment, because we don't know if this group will be together again. I doubt it," Dominican manager Tony Pena said.
Now, the Dominicans get their long-awaited fiesta. A party they figured to have in 2009, when the Netherlands spoiled the plan by beating them twice for a stunning first-round exit.
After Fernando Rodney struck out Luis Figueroa to end it, the Dominicans rushed the mound — each player waving his own flag. Well, Rodney held up his lucky plantain that served him well for the second straight day. He won't eat this platano, which he said "is going to be my second trophy."
"This is my gold medal," he said. "It will be my black diamond, because it's changing color. I kept telling everybody to relax and not to worry about (the pressure)."
The Dominicans (8-0) won it in the city where countrymen Felipe, Jesus and the late Matty Alou made history in 1963 when they appeared in the same Giants outfield for several games. Moises Alou is the son of former San Francisco skipper, Felipe.
No matter their team, Caribbeans had so much to cheer in the championship of a tournament missing the star-studded American team yet again. The U.S. failed to reach the final for the third time in as many WBCs.
And Puerto Rico eliminated two-time reigning Classic champion Japan with a 3-1 victory Sunday night to make in all-Caribbean final.
This game gave new meaning to the idea of a Caribbean championship.
Deduno followed up a fine outing in a win against the Americans last Thursday with another strong performance that will send him back to the Minnesota Twins with some nice momentum.
Deduno struck out five in five scoreless innings, allowing two hits and walking three to finish with a 0.69 ERA for the tournament. And Rodney struck out two and finished for his seventh save as the bullpen closed out this special run with 25 2-3 scoreless innings. The relievers didn't allow a run after the fourth inning of their first-round victory against Puerto Rico on March 10 in San Juan.
In the top of the fifth, the grounds crew scurried out to rake the mound after it became slippery in the rain and Deduno walked Alex Rios on five pitches to lead off the inning.
After Carlos Rivera flied out, De Aza ran down Andy Gonzalez's long fly to the gap in left-center and made a reaching snag at the warning track with his back to the infield.
Deduno then walked Jesus Feliciano. Pena paid the pitcher a mound visit but stuck with him, and Deduno struck out Angel Pagan swinging after falling behind 2-0. Deduno pumped his fists again as he charged off the mound and was surrounded by celebratory teammates.
In the bottom half, De Aza did it with his bat. He snapped an 0-for-12 stretch when he laid down a perfect bunt single toward third.
The Dominicans became the first unbeaten WBC champion, beating Team Puerto Rico for the third time in this Classic.
And now they earn the distinction of world champion, too — the first time in WBC history.
Cano had a big hand in it.
The New York Yankees star finished his sensational Classic batting .469 (15 for 32) with two home runs, six RBIs, six runs scored and two doubles. The 15 hits are a WBC record. He also earned MVP honors in each of the first two rounds. Encarnacion finished with six WBC RBIs.
After drawing a pair of intentional walks a night earlier, Cano had another in the first inning against loser Giancarlo Alvarado.
The Puerto Rican right-hander surrendered Encarnacion's double two pitches later, and was done after one shaky inning featuring 22 pitches and only 10 strikes.
Hiram Burgos relieved and struck out five in 4 2-3 innings.
"We didn't have a lot of big names," Puerto Rico manager Edwin Rodriguez said. "The people who were here wanted to be here. They had a mission, and that was to give everything. I think that's an example of what can be accomplished when you have interest and you really put your passion toward a cause."
After Miguel Tejada started at third base and Hanley Ramirez played designated hitter a night earlier in a 4-1 semifinal win against the Netherlands, Ramirez returned to third and Aybar was back in the lineup at DH. Tejada replaced the Dodgers' Ramirez at third in the sixth and made a diving catch in the bullpen area in which he landed hard on his left side and came up grimacing.
Ramirez was lifted because he jammed his thumb lunging for a groundball. Mosies Alou said Ramirez would be examined further.
Pena's move paid off as Aybar doubled and singled and Ramirez added a base hit in the winning effort.
"I'll tell you one thing: Tonight we're going to celebrate, tomorrow we're going to celebrate, and Thursday we're going to worry about spring training," Cano said.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig was among those to attend the game — available on television to 440 million households worldwide in 200 countries and territories, and in 15 languages — that drew 35,703 fans on a cool, drizzly March night at AT&T Park.
NOTES: The Puerto Ricans were 0 for 11 with runners in scoring position. ... DR reliever Santiago Casilla walked major league teammate Pagan on five pitches to start the eighth. ... Reyes tripled in the seventh. ... Attendance for the three games in the Giants' ballpark was 96,913 for a tournament total of 885,212. That surpassed the previous record of 801,410 in 2009. ... ... Japan's loss to Puerto Rico on Sunday was watched by 51 percent of potential viewers in Japan, MLB said. It was the largest share for any of Japan's WBC games this year. The game also was the most-watched sporting event in the past year in Puerto Rico, with the final moments getting a 74 share. ... MLB executive Tim Brosnan called the WBC an "unqualified, over-the-top success."


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DePaul tops Austin Peay 98-67
Cleveland Melvin scored 26 points and Brandon Young added 17 as DePaul routed Austin Peay 98-67 on Saturday.
The Blue Demons' press forced 27 turnovers in their second game in the Cancun Challenge.
Melvin, the 2010-11 Big East rookie of the year, was 11 of 18 from the field and grabbed eight rebounds. Moses Morgan added 15 points for DePaul (2-1).
Anthony Campbell led Austin Peay (1-2) with 17 points. Will Triggs added 12 points and Travis Betran had 11 for the Governors.
DePaul never trailed and built a 58-30 halftime lead. The Blue Demons shot 51.3 percent from the field and 9 of 23 from 3-point range. Morgan led DePaul with four 3-pointers.
The Blue Demons scored the game's first eight points. The Governors pulled to within 10-9, but the Blue Devils went on a 22-4 run, and Melvin's 3-pointer extended the lead to 39-16 with 6:47 left before halftime. Young hit a layup to give DePaul a 30-point lead with 1:23 remaining.
In the first half, Young led DePaul with 16 points and Melvin had 13. DePaul made 6 of 14 from 3-point range and Austin Peay committed 18 turnovers before the break.
Jamee Crockett, who had five points and eight rebounds for DePaul, left the game with a right leg injury in the second half.
The Governors shot 39.6 percent from the field and were 4 of 16 from beyond the arc.
The Blue Demons bounced back from a 71-59 loss to Gardner-Webb on Thursday and improved to 14-1 all-time against current Ohio Valley Conference teams.
Both teams will travel to Cancun to play the rest of the tournament. On Tuesday, the Blue Devils will face Wichita State and the Governors will play Western Carolina.


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There's a smarmy little apologist on youtube that I'd like to see swamped.
Check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s7VL9J_EEs
It's called "Bible Contradiction Challenge" by aaronk1994. He challenges atheists (and other religious types) to find contradictions (or absurdities) in the bible and he will reconcile them.
I've already posted the problem of the time of Jesus's sacrifice. I would love to see this video swamped with contradictions and absurdities, since he has stated that each person can only post one (or he will delete - which I think I find reasonable).
This kid has been doing apologist videos for a while, and he was convinced that evolution was true by other theists - it's an interesting situation, but just thought this could be fun.
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A Beginner's Guide to Naming Your San Francisco Oddities
San Francisco is a city that's famously full of instantly recognizable landmarks: from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Transamerica Pyramid, it's easy for visitors to match many of our skyline's star features with their guidebook descriptions. But for every Coit Tower or Alcatraz Island, there's also an eye-catching oddity whose name might not spring so easily to mind.
So this week, we're expanding your horizons with a primer on the bizarrely beautiful, the vaguely historic, and the tough to pronounce. In other words: all those stand-out structures that make visitors (and sometimes even San Franciscans) ask, "Hey – what is that thing?"
Sutro Tower
Pop quiz time: What's the highest point in San Francisco? Is it the pinnacle of Coit Tower? The tippity-top of a Golden Gate pillar?
Actually, the answer is "none of the above." Instead, the highest point in San Francisco is an eyesore/icon that's earned the (sort-of) endearing nickname, "the space claw." Its real name, though, is Sutro Tower, and chances are you'll find its presence inescapable on a trip to San Francisco. Jutting up defiantly from atop an 834-foot-high mountain, this 977-foot steel tower can be seen from just about anywhere in the city. It's so tall, in fact, that its wiry tips can often be seen poking up through the city's famous blankets of fog.
While locals have been split between loving and hating Sutro Tower since its completion in 1973, it certainly seems to be here to stay. And for good reason: it's a vital part of the city's communications system. The tower sends signals to 11 TV stations and four radio stations throughout the Bay Area, as well as to cable and satellite providers, meaning it's just as valuable for getting safety information out during emergencies as it is for broadcasting Giants' baseball games.
Fun fact: The Tower's built atop a mountain that was once home to the grandson of Adolph Sutro, who left the city with no small number of head-scratchingly awesome landmarks, himself.
The Giant Camera Obscura
If you've ever sipped a cappuccino at the Cliff House or gone a bit off trail wandering around the Sutro Baths, you may have spotted what looks an awful lot like an enormous camera atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. And, in a clever little twist of architectural design, that's pretty much exactly what it is.
This isn't a camera as you may know it, though: it's a "camera obscura" – which is a fancy, Latin way of describing this device that uses light and a parabolic screen to reproduce detailed, moving images of the surrounding ocean and sky. If it sounds technical, it is: the camera's based on a 15th-century design by none other than Leonardo DaVinci. To get an idea of what the camera can do – and how – check out this video from the San Francisco Exploratorium. Better yet, visit the camera in person: for just a few bucks, you can step inside watch the area's waves, clouds, and the rugged rock formations dance by dreamily.
Fun fact: The last surviving remnant of SF's famous Playland seaside amusement park, the camera obscura has been around since 1946.
The Palace of the Fine Arts
That dome… those columns… the way they seem so overgrown, crumbling, but elegant at the same time… is the Palace of Fine Arts a set of fading ruins, or just an artful rendition of one? And what's it doing in a city known more for its iron and concrete than its Corinthian columns, anyway?
The Palace of Fine Arts, in fact, is a complicated case of life-imitating-art-imitating-life. It was constructed for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition to mimic the kind of Roman ruins often found in Europe. But as the decades wore on, bringing war, recession, and other major hardships to the country and the city, the faux-ruins fell into a state of disrepair, becoming exactly what they'd originally set out to imitate.
Over the years, the structure underwent iterations as an exhibition hall, a set of tennis courts, and even a storage base for Army trucks and jeeps. By 1964, the place was in such shabby shape that the famous rotunda and columns had to be demolished and carefully rebuilt. What visitors walk through today – though technically only about 50 years old – is a faithfully recreated version of the original, right down to its intentional illusion of age.
Fun fact: The Palace of Fine Arts overlooks a glimmering pond and grassy nooks perfect for a picnic, and is an easy walk from HI-SF Fisherman's Wharf.
Mission Dolores
If you're interested food, fashion, and the sunniest microclimate in San Francisco, chances are you've already heard of the city's Mission District. But have you ever wondered where the neighborhood got its name? Obvious as it may seem, many people have no idea the 'hood is anchored by an actual Spanish mission whose founding predates the Declaration of Independence.
Between 1769 and 1823, Spanish missionaries established a series of missions throughout what would later become California in an effort to spread the Christian faith. Mission Dolores (or "Mission San Francisco de Asis" as it was then known), was founded right here in San Francisco in 1776. It was one of the only buildings to survive the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906; today it's the oldest building still standing in the city. Pop in during daily open hours (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00, depending on the season; $5 adults, $3 students) and you'll be treated to a matchless display of early California history and priceless religious art.
Fun fact: After you've visited Mission Dolores itself, it's well worth continuing to explore the area. Pop over to nearby Dolores Park to sunbathe with the locals, walk a few blocks east to Mission Street for the best tacos in the city, take in the street art of Clarion Alley, or join your fellow hostellers on a free, Saturday afternoon neighborhood walking tour.
By why stop there? Dig up more forgotten relics with our guides to SF's hidden WPA murals and the lasting legacies of local characters Adolph Sutro and Emperor Norton. Then venture a bit further afield with a visit to one of Northern California's historic hostels, or pop over to Sacramento for a tour of the city's endless – and eccentric – small museums.
Stay at one of our three San Francisco hostels.


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Detroit's water and sewer bonds were dropped five levels to CCC from BB- by Standard & Poor's — its fifth-lowest grade —
citing a possible default as the city goes through the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy.
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's plan to reduce $18 billion in debt classifies such bonds as secured while calling general obligations unsecured. Investors in the $3.7 trillion municipal-bond market are watching the Chapter 9 proceedings to see how various debt classes are treated.
"We lowered our rating because we view the obligations as currently vulnerable to nonpayment," said Standard & Poor's credit analyst Scott Garrigan in a report Tuesday. Orr may offer holders of water and sewer bonds less than promised —tantamount to default, the report says.
The city's water system, which serves about 40 percent of Michigan's population, accounts for $5.8 billion of Detroit's debt. Orr has proposed leasing the system to a new regional public authority to help pay for services. Surrounding counties have so far balked.
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department plans to issue $150 million of bonds in June through the Michigan Finance Authority, according to Terry Stanton, a spokesman for state Treasurer Kevin Clinton.
Moody's Investors Service rates the water department's senior debt B1, and Fitch Ratings has the securities at BB+, both below investment grade.


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Montgomery, Alabama
No one remembers exactly, but it was some time after the law came down desegregating recreational facilities here that the swimming pools in Oak Park were locked up. Then they were filled in, grassed over, and now you wouldn't know that pools had ever been there. Arlam Carr Jr. had lived just across the street, but he and his siblings, like all the black children of Montgomery–like all the black people of Montgomery, excepting the nannies taking white children out for a stroll–couldn't set foot in the park, couldn't look at the alligators in its fine little zoo either. Most white people are gone from the Oak Park area now. So are the alligators. The whites-only schools that Arlam Jr., with the help of the courts, busted open in 1964 while still a teenager are effectively blacks-only today. In this city that owes its place in contemporary history to a bus boycott for desegregation, begun here forty-five years ago this December 5, the same is true for the buses, if you can find them.
Bus stops don't announce themselves in Montgomery. There are no signs, no shelters, no maps posted on the street. There are only three fixed routes, down from thirty-six in the 1980s. You have to know where to stand for a bus, or catch sight of one and flag it down, or call in advance for a minibus and hope to get on a schedule. If it's a weekend, or nighttime, or morning before 6; if the schedules are too full, or the bus driver isn't accommodating, or you don't have a phone, you're out of luck. There used to be a transfer station downtown, a central hub where all the buses circulated, but that was removed a few years ago. Now it's just a grassy knoll with a Bible under Plexiglas and a historical marker noting Montgomery's distinction as the first city in the Western Hemisphere to have, in 1886, an entirely electrified public trolley system.
A turn of the century later, "public transport" means poor people's last resort. Just so no one misses the point, only one bus here has a dedicated route to the heart of town, but every bus will get you to the county health and welfare offices. The central transfer station is just next door. Montgomery, population 322,000, is a microcosm of the country in this sense. Nationwide, in places with populations of a million or less, more than half the people who use public transit make under $15,000 a year; nearly 60 percent of transit riders are minorities. Almost everywhere cities have cut service, raised fares, starved their systems. Some people in Montgomery are battling back, but they have to undo decades of damage. Median household income here is around $30,000 and most city dwellers don't own cars. Yet despite the vast potential ridership, only about 3 percent of people with jobs used the buses in 1990, and many say they wouldn't dream of riding one today. Stigma is written in concrete and steel at the transfer station, a long, narrow shed set back from the road on barren ground behind a chain-link fence edged with barbed wire. Local transport activists express faint relief that at least the razor wire, there until recently, has been removed.


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Work has started on the 2013 Conference
It's been four weeks since the end of the 2012 conference, and already much has changed. Random House and Penguin are merging. The election is over and we have a new boss–same as the old boss. Baseball ended and the Florida Marlins traded their entire team and half the Everglades to Toronto for a bag of baseballs.
And work has started on next year's conference. This weekend, most of the executive staff has convened at a secret location–okay, it's the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary–to lay the groundwork for next year's conference. At the end of the weekend, we'll have done most of the initial planning for the twelfth annual conference–The Greatest Writer's Conference on Earth.
There's not much for you to do–yet. But with the holidays coming, you might want to ask for some extra cash to get you in for next year. Or, if you're already flush, for drink money for agents, publishers, and bloggers.
As with each conference since 2009, we'll be bringing you everything you need to know about next year's conference and a lot of other information that interests writers. Hopefully, we'll also load up a healthy slate of guest bloggers, too. Already, we have commitments from Jamie Morris and Peggy Miller to write prose and poetry prompts once a month starting in January.
We've also started thinking about an arrangement that will make the conference experience easier, particularly for people who are pitching during the conference. We'll also have the bookstore and the silent auction, as we do every year. And door prizes and some light entertainment during the drawings–assuming I clean up my diet a little bit. Otherwise, it will be heavy entertainment.
And we'll have the Royal Palm Literary Awards banquet, along with Open Mic, agent and publisher panels, and some damn fine culinary delights.
So make your reservations now, October 18-20, 2013 at the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary.
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Surveying the wreckage of the Eagles' 38-23 loss to the Cowboys:
Even if Michael Vick didn't have a concussion, Nick Foles would be my starting quarterback Sunday against the Redskins, and not just because the Eagles are at death's door and it's time to get a long look at the kid. After watching him play against the Cowboys, I honestly believe he gives them a better chance of winning than Vick.
Foles certainly wasn't perfect Sunday. But considering that he hasn't taken a single practice snap with the first-team offense since the preseason, he played pretty well. Wasn't a deer in headlights. Kept his cool under pressure. Got the ball out quickly. And made good decisions for the most part. Certainly made me want to see more.
Foles threw just two passes that traveled 20 or more yards in the air, including his 44-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Maclin. Twenty-three of his 32 attempts traveled nine yards or less in the air.
The rookie did a good job against the Cowboys' blitz. He had an impressive 144.0 passer rating against the blitz, completing seven of nine passes for 87 yards and one touchdown.
A look at the good and the bad in his 22-for-32, 219-yard performance:
--His 44-yard third-quarter touchdown pass to Jeremy Maclin. He got a nice block from rookie running back Bryce Brown, who picked up blitzing cornerback Orlando Scandrick. That allowed Foles to get outside and extend the play, where he found a wide-open Maclin at the goal line.
--A 32-yard completion to rookie Damaris Johnson that set up the Eagles' final touchdown. Again keeping his eyes downfield, Foles rolled away from pressure and got the ball to Johnson, who broke free from cornerback Brandon Carr.
-- His first pass of the game to Jason Avant. It was a timing throw that was right on the money. But Avant injured his hamstring making his cut and was off-balance and unable to make the play.
--A 14-yard completion to tight end Brent Celek on the Eagles' first play after Dwayne Harris' 78-yard punt return for a touchdown put the Cowboys up by seven. Foles drilled the ball to Celek.
--A 15-yard completion to Maclin on the Eagles' final scoring drive.
--His interception early in the fourth quarter that was returned for a touchdown by Cowboys cornerback Brandon Carr. DeSean Jackson, who was covered by Carr, ran a slant route. It wasn't an awful throw, but it was behind Jackson. He tried to reach back and grab it, only to have it go off his hands and get picked off by Carr.
--A second-quarter pass to fullback Stanley Havili. Foles telegraphed the throw. Scandrick jumped the route and nearly came away with an interception.
--Foles' across-the-body throw to Maclin on the Eagles' final scoring drive. He managed to complete it for 13 yards, but it was a miracle it wasn't picked off. He made the throw off his back foot with Cowboys linebacker Anthony Spencer in his face. The ball seemed to hang in the air forever.
--An incompletion to Maclin on the Eagles' final scoring drive. Maclin pulled up when he found an open spot in the zone. Foles apparently thought he was going to keep running down the seam. It's the kind of miscommunication you expect when a quarterback and a receiver haven't worked together since the summer.
Let's start with the good news. Left guard Evan Mathis and center Dallas Reynolds played pretty well. So did rookie right guard Dennis Kelly except for one fairly significant exception: he was the guy responsible for getting Vick concussed early in the second quarter. Cowboys linebacker Ernie Sims came up the middle on a blitz. Kelly mistakenly thought Reynolds was going to be picking up Sims. Sims came through untouched. He didn't sack Vick, but knocked him to the ground, where he hit his head on the turf.
As for tackles King Dunlap and Demetress Bell, both played poorly. Dunlap, playing right tackle for the first time since 2010, could find himself on the bench against Washington if right guard Danny Watkins, who has missed the last three games with an injured ankle, is able to play. That would free Kelly to move out to tackle.
Dunlap was flagged for three penalties against the Cowboys, including two illegal-hands-to-the-face calls where he completely knocked off the defender's helmet. He was flagged for a blatant hold of Cowboys linebacker Anthony Spencer on the play right before Foles' 44-yard touchdown throw to Maclin. A little later in the third quarter, he almost took Maclin's head off on a poorly executed wide receiver screen.
On the same drive, he negated a 13-yard completion to Damaris Johnson that would've given the Eagles a first down at the one-yard line when he was flagged for his first illegal-hands-to-the-face penalty. On the next play, he failed to finish a block on DeMarcus Ware on a run play.
When the Eagles were forced to settle for a field goal on the drive, Dunlap, who also is a blocker on the Eagles' field goal team, forgot to go out on the field, forcing the Eagles to waste a timeout. In the fourth quarter, with the Eagles trailing by two touchdowns, Dunlap was called again for his second illegal hands to the face, effectively stalling the drive.
Bell struggled all day with Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware, though a lot of tackles in the league struggle against Ware. He was called for a holding penalty in the second quarter when Ware beat him with an inside swim move. That negated an eight-yard completion to tight end Brent Celek. On the Eagles' final scoring drive, he gave up a sack to Cowboys linebacker Victor Butler, who beat him to the outside. He also was called for a false start on the Eagles' final possession.
Mat McBriar had 4.88-second hang time on the 49-yard punt Dwayne Harris returned 78 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter. That's high enough and short enough to force a fair catch. But neither of the Eagles' gunners – Colt Anderson and Brandon Hughes – got downfield particularly quick. Hughes then took an inside route, which allowed Harris to get to the sideline and use the blocking wall the Cowboys had set up. It appeared that Hughes was blocked in the back by Scandrick on the play, but it wasn't called. McBriar should've been able to force Harris out of bounds at the Philadephia 40, but didn't. And I'm not sure what linebacker Jamar Chaney was doing on the play. Instead of taking an angle to the sideline to cut off Harris, he seemed to be waiting for McBriar to force him back inside to him.
The Eagles had seven missed tackles against the Cowboys. Six of them came on two of the biggest plays of the game. The first was Felix Jones' 11-yard touchdown catch and run late in the first quarter that tied the game. Defensive end Darryl Tapp, safety Nate Allen and cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha all had opportunities to bring Jones down and failed.
Then there was Tony Romo's momentum-turning 25-yard completion to Miles Austin on a third-and-five late in the third quarter. The Eagles got excellent pressure on Romo on the play. Fletcher Cox, Jason Babin and Cullen Jenkins all had opportunities to sack Romo. Somehow, he got away from all of them and delivered the ball to Austin. That kept the drive alive. Three plays later, Romo threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Dez Bryant to tie the game.
"It was sporadic," Andy Reid said of the tackling. "There were some plays where I thought we really made some nice tackles, and then there were some plays, a couple of key plays, where we didn't make tackles.
"One of the things you're seeing is we're not doing a good job of wrapping up, of using our arms with our body and our feet and running through tackles."
Case in point was cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie trying to bring down Cowboys tight end Jason Witten with a shoulder nudge in the first quarter. It was like a bug hitting your windshield on the Schuylkill.
--The Eagles used two-tight end sets on four of 10 plays on their game-opening touchdown drive, then went with two tight ends just 10 times the rest of the game.
--The Eagles continue to increase rookie running back Bryce Brown's reps. While he only carried the ball three times (for 1 yard), he played 13 snaps against the Cowboys. He had a big block on Foles' 44-yard touchdown pass to Maclin, picking up blitzing cornerback Orlando Scandrick, which allowed Foles to get outside and extend the play. On another play, though, he failed to give Bell help with Ware.
--This hasn't been one of tight end Celek's better blocking seasons. On Sunday, he missed a seal block on linebacker Anthony Spencer on a third-and-four run by Vick. He also failed to block linebacker Bruce Carter on a Bryce Brown run early in the second quarter. Carter tackled Brown for a one-yard loss.
--DeSean Jackson had a nice block on cornerback Morris Claiborne on a 12-yard screen pass to LeSean McCoy in the second quarter.
--The Eagles' back-to-back sacks of Romo in the second quarter both came on blitzes. So did Romo's 49-yard completion to Dez Bryant on the Eagles' second scoring drive. The Eagles blitzed Romo six times. He was 2-for-4 for 58 yards when they send extra rushers.
--I'm still not sure why, after choosing not to use their two remaining timeouts to stop the clock on their final possession of the first half, Reid and Marty Mornhinweg called a pass play on second-and-five from their own 13 with 34 seconds left. And why fullback Stanley Havili, who caught the pass for a three-yard gain, ran out of bounds.
--The Eagles got good inside pass-rush push from the defensive tackles Sunday, which hadn't been the case the previous four games.
--The best evidence of Bryce Brown's speed. On Foles' 44-yard touchdown throw to Maclin, Brown picked up Scandrick on a blitz and still was the first guy down the field to congratulate Maclin in the end zone.
--For the life of me, I don't understand why Rodgers-Cromartie was playing outside leverage on Dez Bryant on Bryant's 30-yard touchdown catch. The Cowboys had four wide receivers on the field on that play. He wasn't going to be getting any safety help. Yet he still allowed Bryant to get inside of him.
--Tony Romo completed 7 of 10 third-down passes for 83 yards, a touchdown and five first downs. In the last three games, opposing quarterbacks are 19-for-25 for 253 yards with two touchdowns, no interceptions and 15 first downs against the Eagles. In the last three games, Eagles opponents have completed 75.6 percent of their passes, averaged 8.7 yards per attempt and thrown seven touchdown passes and no interceptions.
--The Eagles, who have just 10 takeaways, have failed to force a turnover in four of their first nine games. They have just two interceptions in their last seven games.
--Just two of the Eagles' 14 possessions Sunday started beyond their own 22 yard-line. They've had just five drive starts beyond their own 40 in the last seven games (78 possessions).
--With 16 touchdowns in nine games, the Eagles are on pace to score just 28 TDs this season. That would be the fewest since 1998 when they scored just 17 and finished 3-13.
--The Cowboys rushed for 50 yards on their first seven carries Sunday, and just 51 on their final 17 rushing attempts. Thirteen of the cowboys last 17 carries went for three yards or less.


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An Oral History of the Chronically Misunderstood Allen Iverson
How did a tiny kid from Virginia become the most explosive player in the NBA, on and off the court? GQ conducted over fifty interviews with teammates, coaches, friends, and the woman who flies out from New Jersey to do arrange his braids in an attempt to find the answer
If a great drama has five parts—conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement—then Allen Iverson is hovering somewhere around climax. After ten brilliant, frustrating seasons in Philadelphia, The Answer has bet all his chips on one hand—the young, promising Denver Nuggets—and the question is: Will he complete Denver's rise from obscurity, bringing rings and ticker tape to the High Plains, or was this season's blockbuster trade—which famously paired him with young gun Carmelo Anthony—the last big dramatic twist before his thirty-one-year-old body finally succumbs?
GQ sent seven reporters to chart Iverson's story in the words of those who know him best. We conducted over fifty interviews with teammates, coaches, friends, and the woman who flies out from New Jersey to arrange his cornrows. We can't say if he's on the rise or the fall, but one thing is for sure: He's had a hell of a life.
Allen Iverson: Football was my first love. It was my dream to play in the NFL. I didn't start playing basketball until I was 8 years old. One day my mom told my coach to come and bring me to basketball practice. I cried all the way out the door.
Gary Moore (Iverson's manager and former youth-league football coach): Guess what? He's not even playing his best sport. He's probably the best football player I've ever seen. And I've seen Deion Sanders, Gale Sayers, Sweetness, John Elway.
Dennis Kozlowski (ex-football coach, Bethel High School, Hampton, Virginia): In high school, he wasn't big as a minute—five six, five seven, 145 pounds—but he was a Deion type of player, an absolute wonder returning kicks. As a safety, he still holds the state record with five interceptions in one game. As a quarterback, he could throw the ball at least seventy yards in the air.
Rick Reilly (writer, Sports Illustrated): After he'd begun playing with the Sirs, I drove with him one day in his black Mercedes to a Philadelphia Eagles practice. He threw a bunch of beautiful passes—he could throw it fifty yards on the button—and ran this gorgeous route. The coach was like, "My God, I'll sign him right now."
Iverson: Every school in the country recruited me for football and basketball. But then events happened in my life, and I wasn't able to do that.
Jim Spencer (columnist, Denver Post; formerly with the Hampton Roads Daily Press): On Valentine's Day 1993, Iverson was with some friends at a bowling alley in a middle-class, racially mid neighborhood. A group of white guys was there. People were drinking beer. One of the black guys claimed that one of the white guys called him the N-word. A fight broke out. There were broken bones, and people were beaten unconscious. A young white woman was hit in the head with a chair, cut so badly she had to get stitches. There was controversy over whether Iverson had flung that chair.
David Teel (columnist, the Hampton Roads Daily Press): He was eventually found guilty of "maiming by mob," which was a felony. This was a statute that in the cruelest of ironies was put on the books to prevent lynchings. He was sentenced to fifteen years. Ten suspended. Five years in prison. He was 17 years old. For a fight!
Moore: Allen was wrongfully accused. He was in the bowling alley when the incident occurred, but he never did anything but get out of there.
Teel: I think that's bullshit. Even some people who love Allen to death don't believe that. Allen and his friends got into a fight with the wrong people, with connected people. In the city prison farm, he lived in a trailer and worked in the bakery.
Dwight Riddick (senior pastor, Gethsemane Baptist Church, Newport News, Virginia): The community felt he was being unjustly charged. There were marches, there were rallies. We raised funds to help pay lawyers and get him support.
Moore: Allen wrote to the governor, letting him know that he had not done what he had been accused of and explaining what he would do if given another opportunity.
Douglas Wilder (former governor of Virginia; current mayor, Richmond, Vir-ginia): The law that was used for the conviction was ancient. I couldn't see how that violation, for a juvenile, should result in such a mark being placed on him for life. Four months later, at Christmas, I pardoned him. I caught hell for it. [Iverson's conviction was later overturned.]
Jessie Iverson-Bowman (Iverson's aunt): When he first got out, he didn't leave home for a week. He had the expression on his face that he got knowledge while he was in there. The part that made tears come to my eyes, we were sitting in the living room and he didn't speak about things that went on in there. He spoke about what he was going to do next.
Iverson: Coach [John] Thompson [of Georgetown] had visited me [in prison], and I'd asked him would he consider taking me in if I was able to get out. Fortunately, he did. They had a football program, and I remember one day asking him how did he feel about me playing football. I don't think you can write it in a magazine, what he said. I didn't think about playing football no more after that.
Brendan Gaughan (former teammate, Georgetown Hoyas): It was my job to guard him in practice. I watched film of him every day. You know, Allen's afraid to have me on a basketball court. I got offered a ten-day contract for the playoffs once just to shut him down. I told them no, that's my buddy.
Iverson: He's never gonna shut me down. Better be glad he's not Pinocchio, or he'd have the longest nose in the world.
Gaughan: He set the per-game scoring record at Georgetown, then left for the NBA after his sophomore year.
Pat Croce (former president and minority owner, Philadelphia 76ers): We had the number one pick in the 1996 draft. There were four candidates, but if I went anywhere—"Pat! Iverson! Pat! Iverson!" Everyone wanted us to draft him. I had detectives evaluating his background. The feedback we got on him was that he would require discipline. At the same time, I was looking for someone to fill seats.
Brad Greenberg (former general manager, Philadelphia 76ers; current associate head coach, Virginia Tech): Many players we interviewed had been coached by their agents on what to say. But Allen was genuine. We discussed the fact that he'd had an incident, had some friends that didn't have the kind of future that he had and whose interests might not necessarily be his. He basically said, "Look, Brad, if I fuck up, it's going to be because I fuck up, not because of someone else."
Larry Platt (editor of Philadelphia magazine; Iverson biographer): Growing up, he made a pact with his friends, some of whom had long criminal records: They were going to be rappers, and he was a baller. And whoever made it, the rest were along for the ride. At one point, there were about thirty-five families on the payroll, both relatives and friends.
Iverson: Everybody coming at you, picking at you, wanting something from you. Pulling and tugging. That was rough. Not knowing how to handle money, not having known about money your whole life, that was the tough part of it. Eventually, after having it for years, you get used to it.
Iverson-Bowman: All the people he was friends with, if they did any little thing for him, they threw it up in his face: "Man, I looked out for you when you were coming up!" He hears so many people's problems: "Man, my lights about to get cut off, they taking my car, can I get a few dollars?"
Iverson: Once I got money, I got the tattoos that I wanted. They started getting addictive. I came in with my own style, looking and dressing like I wanted to.
Dave Coskey (former ecutive vice president, Philadelphia 76ers): He wore a suit to the NBA draft. I think that may be the last time I ever saw Allen in a suit.
Henry "Que" Gaskins (former global vice president, lifestyle and entertainment division, Reebok): Reebok had been a white, corporate, women's brand. We'd made our run at being number one during the aerobics craze. We felt A.I. could help us. Kids were tired of being told "Be like Mike." They wanted somebody they could relate to, not worship. Allen Iverson was the most authentic athlete of his time. We designed a shoe for him not even knowing if he was leaving school. It was the only shot we had of having the shoe ready at the start of the season.
Iverson: That was always a dream of mine, having my own sneaker. It didn't matter what it looked like; that sneaker was going to look good to me. It was my first sneaker. It was perfect. It was mine.
Gaskins: In two years, we went from zero to over $200 million. During the first five years, there was not a person on the planet, maybe other than the president, who would not take my phone call. Everyone just wanted to be around him.
Lang Whitaker (executive editor, SLAM magazine): I think a lot of kids understood that this guy isn't a prepackaged superstar—this is a real, flawed person.
It's a relief not to be carrying the whole weight of the team anymore. Not to go out night in and night out, score forty, fifty points, and still lose.
Spencer: One day during his rookie year, I was in the local courthouse looking at some records, and someone said, "Iverson is in here." I went up to this hearing where he was testifying as a character witness for a guy who was very close to his family. The guy was in there on a third-strike charge, possession with intent to distribute. I think it was cocaine. Iverson was telling the judge, "Please don't put him in jail; I will take care of him." That was the people he was around, and that's how loyal he was to them.
Todd Boyd (author, Young, Black, Rich, and Famous): In his rookie year, Allen infamously "crossed over" Jordan. At the top of the key, Allen rocked once, twice, and left Jordan standing in the same spot. It was unbelievable. Nobody had seen Jordan get clowned that way in a long time. The greatest player in the game got upstaged by this rookie.
Bobbito Garcia (cofounder, Bounce magazine): He had already beaten Jordan on the first dribble, but he brought the ball back and crossed him again. That's something that you see on the street—unnecessary moves to claim dominance.
Gaskins: Jordan was talking trash during the game: "Look, young boy, you have to respect us." The Bulls had won championships. Allen said to Jordan, "I ain't got to respect nobody."
Iverson: The first time I met Mike was on the court during my rookie year. Mike was my favorite player. I used to draw pictures of him all the time when I was a kid. He's the one that made me want to play basketball. Was I intimidated? Hell no. When I'm on the basketball court, I feel I am the best basketball player there.
Greenberg: He had a stretch during his rookie year when he had five straight forty-point games, yet people were criticizing him: "He's a one-man show." Are you kidding me?
Phil Jasner (reporter, Philadelphia Daily News): They didn't win any of those games. Larry Brown later asked Allen why he shot so much back then, and the response was something on the order of "Coach, those other guys couldn't play."
Greenberg: I don't know if he trusted many people that year. I think he was just trying to figure it all out: "Why aren't I loved? I'm playing hard, trying to do my best. I want to win. Don't these people see it?"
Coskey: He wore a do-rag to his Rookie of the Year press conference. There weren't a lot of do-rags around then, ten years ago. The league office expressed some concern.
Chris Sheridan (reporter, ESPN): Commissioner Stern had Pat Croce up in his office and said, "We didn't like seeing A.I. wearing that skull cap at the press conference. Our security people tell us that's a gang thing." Croce didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he said, "You guys got it all wrong. It was a Reebok skull cap, and it's not a gang thing; it's a fashion thing." The league office was real iffy on the image that A.I. was bringing into the league.
Platt: He was sort of the face of this new hip-hop culture in the NBA. You can't turn on a game and not see what he wrought.
Whitaker: The NBA airbrushed out his neck tattoo on the cover of Hoop, their official magazine.
Iverson: Once I started it, everybody else started doing it. I don't think David Stern was too keen on that.
Kozlowski: I sometimes question whether or not Reebok doesn't like him to maintain that image. To sell their shoes to poor people in various locales.
Reilly: I always felt that the dress code Stern put in was inadvertently racist. But I don't think he realizes that when Allen Iverson puts on $500,000 worth of jewelry, a brand-new Yankees hat, a brand-new T-shirt that maybe cost him a hundred dollars, $500 jeans, and, you know, expensive Timberlands—that is dressed up. That's what guys wear to the Vibe Awards. That's what guys wear to the Grammys. I think that Stern doesn't get that Allen Iverson is trying to look nice.
Iverson: My outfit cost more than the guys that had on a suit. I spent all that money, and I can't wear it? I think suits look nice on people. But I don't feel comfortable when I have on a suit unless it's a sweatsuit.
Spencer: When he turned 21 during his rookie year, he bought himself a gun. It's one of those little things that really drove you crazy about the guy. The community wanted to like him, and then he buys himself a gun and gets caught riding along at 1:30 a.m. on an interstate with a joint.
Croce: And then there was his rap album. It was always something, every couple of weeks. I think he craves a scene of chaos. He works so well in it, off the court and on. On the court in a chaotic situation, he could just weave his way through there. Off the court, I think that's what he was brought up in. He needed agita.
Reggie Miller (former guard, Indiana Pacers): During his third year in Philadelphia, he got his first taste of the postseason, against us. We basically murdered them. But he had a great series. And I remember, when it was over, him going to the bench with a towel on his face, crying. It hurt that bad. And I said to myself, He's special. Because they had no shot at beating us. But he felt that they could. All true athletes believe they can conquer.
Howard Eskin (Philadelphia sports-radio host): He got bigger and bigger, and the organization started to let him say no. When he didn't want to do something, they let him not do it. I'd call them enablers.
Croce: That's pure b.s. I disciplined him. I mean, Allen got angry with me once, because I wouldn't let his posse come on the plane. It wasn't my job to do that, but Larry Brown doesn't like to be the bad guy. Things got really ugly between them. Allen would give Larry looks when he was taken off the court. And Larry would get upset, but he wouldn't say anything. In December '99, we met in a conference room at the practice facility. Larry wanted me to get rid of Allen the next day, and Allen wanted me to fire Larry that day. I got deep down into it: "Larry, Allen thinks you're like the prison guard." "Allen, what do you think Larry feels like when you're m-f'ing him when you come off the court?" That meeting was like an intervention. Eventually, Allen got up and walked around the table and hugged Larry. That was a turning point for the team.
Jasner: The genius of Larry was to surround Allen with four players who didn't need to score, who would do whatever it took to win. That was how they got to the finals in 2001 against the Lakers.
Aaron McKie (guard, Los Angeles Lakers; formerly with the Philadelphia 76ers): You have the one golden guy, and everybody else has to play their part and know their roles.
Tyronn Lue (guard, Atlanta Hawks; formerly with the Los Angeles Lakers): In Game 1 [of the championship series], with about six minutes to go in the third quarter, A.I. already had, like, forty points. The Sirs were leading by fifteen points. My job was to deny him the ball. After I checked in to the game, he only scored ten or so more points.
Boyd: Lue was sort of holding it close for the fourth quarter. Then Allen hits that three on him in overtime, and Lue falls down, and Allen steps over his head. That's one of the iconic images in NBA history.
Lue: I knew he was frustrated, and that was just something to try to show me up. Evidently, it worked, because that's all anybody talks about. As the series went on, we got into it. I don't think we liked each other much.
Iverson: I just felt like he did a lot of grabbing and holding. It kind of frustrated me. A lot of times, I had my way with him.
Rick Fox (former forward, Los Angeles Lakers): After we won Game 4 to go up three games to one, I remember seeing him being driven down the tunnel in a golf cart to the press room—which is a short walk. I remember thinking, You're MVP of the league, and you've been fighting valiantly, and you're so banged up you can't even make it from your locker room to do press. He is a true warrior.
Lue: The next season, we got into it again. I came right up to him and said, "You keep talking that shit about how you're gonna give me fifty—well, here I am, motherfucker." And he was like, "I don't even know who you are. Who are you?" I was like, "I'm the same person who won the championship ring last year." The first play, he went backdoor and scored, and he was yelling, "Gimme the rock, we can do this all night." And I was like, "It's too late. You shoulda did it during the finals." After that we started talking more, and we became cool.
Iverson: I've got a problem with people who play scared. Tyronn Lue took it as a challenge, like a man.
Karen Frascona (former senior director of communications, Philadelphia 76ers): The next year, after the trip to the finals, Allen and Larry were battling again. [Brown had accused Iverson of setting a bad example by not taking practices seriously.] But after the playoffs, they felt it was important to announce that they had patched things up. Everything was very rushed. I blame myself for what happened.
Eskin: At the press conference, Allen was kind of in a festive mood. I don't want to say any more than that.
Coskey: I'd left the office a little bit early that day. I came home and saw my wife watching Allen on TV. She just said, "Oh, my God." And then my phone started to ring.
Iverson (at his press conference, May 7, 2002): I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in here talking about practice. I mean, listen: We talking about practice. Not a game, not a game, not a game. We talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game. We're talking about practice, man. I mean, how silly is that? We're talking about practice… I know I'm supposed to lead by example.… But we talking about practice, man. What are we talking about? Practice? We're talking about practice, man. We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We ain't talking about the game. We're talking about practice, man. When you come into the arena and you see me play—you see me play, don't you? You see me give everything I got, right? But we talking about practice right now.… But we talking about practice, man… We're talking about practice.
Frascona: The media were almost egging him on. I tried to redirect him, but he was so emotional. It came out that he was ridiculing practice, but that's not what it was.
Greenberg: He was saying, "We just finished this season. I scored a lot of points, played hard, played injured. And you have the audacity to say that me being late to practice was why we didn't do better?"
Platt: It was right after they lost to the Celtics in the playoffs. Eric Snow had shot, like, 25 percent, and Dikembe Mutombo couldn't even catch the ball. But Allen's always been ultraloyal to his teammates.
Croce: He's never bad-mouthed a player. Ever. Never. He doesn't do that.
Eskin: We understood that. But when he said, "How the hell am I gonna make my teammates better with practice?" I just started laughing. He would always say, "I can't practice," and they would allow it. Then they'd cover it up. One year he was late for practice at least half of the time. They just let it go. Once you do that, he's in charge.
Reilly: Dr. J and Malone missed practice all the time. Iverson probably plays through more injuries than anybody in NBA history.
Miller: If you're a true leader, you have to show up early and stay late. If you take shortcuts, you're giving license to your teammates to do the same, because if the best player's doing it, why can't I?
Jasner: In 2004, Chris Ford, the new coach of the 76ers, gave the players the team rules: If they were going to be late, all they had to do was call him personally. You can still play, but you don't start. Allen, who had been injured, went out for warm-up one evening and had someone tell an equipment manager that he wanted to play. Chris wasn't willing to look past that. He said, "We'll do it as we have done." Allen was furious: "I'm a starter!" And he did not dress for the game. Instead he sat at the end of the bench in a throwback Kareem jersey. At one point, he was eating nachos. It totally embarrassed the franchise.
Eskin: And then last year, he blew off fan-appreciation night. People knew it was time to move on.
Kozlowski: He was getting tired of losing. Because he hadn't been associated with it. And he never had a tolerance for it.
Croce: He's got a scoring title. He's got MVP. He's got Rookie of the Year. He's got a bronze medal. The only thing the guy doesn't have is a championship ring. I'm telling you, that's all that's in that guy's head.
Patrick Saunders (staff writer, Denver Post): On December 19, Philadelphia traded Iverson to the Denver Nuggets. Prior to his first game, we had a huge blizzard. Nobody knew for sure when he was going to get in or whether he was going to play. He had only five minutes of warm-up. The arena was electric.
Carmelo Anthony (forward, Denver Nuggets): It was the biggest thing around here since Elway won the Super Bowl.
Saunders: He didn't start, but when he came into the game, it was earsplitting. He raised his hand to acknowledge the standing ovation.
Steve Hess (strength-and-conditioning coach, Denver Nuggets): He hadn't played in two weeks; he'd just been shooting baskets in his front yard. That first game he plays, like, thirty-nine minutes, at altitude, and scores, like, twenty-two points.
Saunders: Carmelo, who was suspended at the time, was home watching the game. He was standing up; he couldn't sit down. Iverson would pass the ball to a teammate, and Carmelo would pretend it was him. He was in his living room flipping his wrist like he's getting a dish from Iverson, and he's making the shot. He got all psyched, so he drove up in his Range Rover and invited Iverson to dinner.
Anthony: I was like a fan. I relate to him more than any other player. I was happy seeing him there in his powder blue uniform.
Saunders: After the game, he gave the media another twenty minutes. And we're thinking, Hey, wait a minute, this isn't the Allen Iverson we were told about. He seemed to enjoy it. It's like he was released or something.
Platt: It's very reminiscent of Barkley's career, when he left Philly and went to Phoenix and became the league MVP and went to the finals. Maybe Allen can pull off the same thing.
Iverson: It's a relief not to be carrying the whole weight of the team anymore. Not to go out night in and night out, score forty, fifty points, and still lose. Now you got not just Carmelo but so many guys. Actually, I felt coming here that I wouldn't get all the attention from defenders that I used to get in Philly. That's been the biggest surprise for me. I think it's a respect that people have for my game.
Linas Kleiza (forward, Denver Nuggets): The media had said he was a thug, always going against coaches. And there was that "practice, practice." But he's probably the best teammate I ever had.
Croce: My advice to Coach Karl is "The first time A.I. steps over the line, break his toe." If someone doesn't say no, he'll just do it. And then you know what happens? People get tired of saying no to him. They don't want to be on his bad side.
Jerry Schimmel (sportscaster, Denver Nuggets): The way we're looking at it is this: This could lead to a championship. Before this there was no chance, in my mind.
Sheridan: He once told me, "All my life I've been misunderstood." That's what he wants his tombstone to say: misunderstood.
Gary Smith (writer, Sports Illustrated): It's almost like he needs that reality to be true more than it is. The way he grew up, you're being screwed, and you're just feeding on it from the day you were born. When he gets out on the court and becomes a warrior, he turns the tables on all that victimhood and sense of misunderstanding. But still, to grow as a person and not just as a basketball player, you've got to find a way out of that.
Reilly: In the great pantheon of idiots we've had to cover, this guy isn't even close. I'd take a freakin' subway to a tugboat to a pogo stick to watch the guy play.
Hess: His genetics shock the shit out of me as a trainer. He doesn't do a ton of working out; he doesn't need to. I could put him in gravity boots and feed him ice cream and he would still be ridiculous.
Greenberg: I hope that someday people will recognize that he is the greatest small basketball player that ever lived. I mean, the top five points-per-game players in the history of the league? It's Jordan, Wilt, him, Baylor, and West.
Platt: He really is like Rocky in baggy pants and cornrows.
Steve Nash (guard, Phoenix Suns): If we're describing Allen to someone who'd never seen him play, he'd sound like a giant. He gets to the line at will. He finishes inside with all sorts of creativity and all kinds of contact. He shoots over anyone he wants. He sounds like a six-ten monster. The truth is, he's maybe six feet tall and 165 pounds.
Reilly: One hundred sixty pounds. That's dripping wet.
Boyd: One hundred seventy-five, soaking wet, with a brick in his back pocket.
Platt: I've stood next to him and I'd say he's, like, five ten.
Greenberg: Five ten.
Iverson: I'm six feet. Legit.
Interviews by Alex French, Cole Louison, Trent MacNamara, Nate Penn, Candice Rainey, Bryan Thomas, and Greg Veis


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