"I was always at the basketball games and I remember that he was always a team player, and even if he didn't start the game, that he was with the team, " Kealoha-Scullion told us.

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So while a more image-conscious pol might have pasted on a wider smile, or shaken Gore's hand with more vigor, Bradley's not that kind of guy, and he isn't about to start playing the game now.

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The game didn't start really well for us, but we fought back.

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The game itself doesn't start until more than a third of the way through the book, so the there's plenty of room for Kettmann's set-up, before he goes into a virtual box score in the remaining chapters.

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"I can't explain it, but every time we get up 16, it's like, 'Well, we're really good and we don't have to play hard' and we start messing with the game, " Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said.

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Tulowitzki is off to a terrific start and said he didn't think his newfound cautious approach impeded his game at all.

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Cucuzza said he won't start planning celebrations in earnest until about a day before the potential big game.

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It was a necessary precaution, but it didn't help the flow of the game, particularly in the stop-start first half when both teams were coming to terms with the heat.

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We're leading both world championships, so it hasn't been too shabby a start to the year, but we need to raise our game in Bahrain and carry that through into the European season.

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"Obviously we didn't get the start we wanted, fell behind and kept composure and bounced back into the game, but again it's unfortunate to give up a lead, " Pominville said.

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