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For the three drivers whose championship hopes ended with hard crashes, they will have to, at some point, turn the page on 2016.It wont be easy, especially for the two drivers whose last taste of racing ended in bitter disappointment with a damaged car.Matt Kenseth had already appeared to put his Phoenix International Raceway wreck with Alex Bowman behind him. He had the advantage of racing another week, in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, to erase the memory of getting knocked out of the Chase a week earlier.For Joey Logano and Carl Edwards, they will have to wait three months to race again after their hard crash going for the lead with 10 laps left at Homestead in the Ford EcoBoost 400 on Nov. 20, resulting in neither winning the title.I honestly dont want to look back on it, Edwards admitted on Dec. 1, a day prior to the Sprint Cup awards banquet. Its still a little too soon. ... Its one of those things that you just dont really want to talk about. It was truly heartbreaking. Thats the way it is. Thats the truth.While complimented by the media about the way he handled it on the track, Edwards said his family tried to avoid the topic at Thanksgiving.At Thanksgiving, there was a real absence of talk about it and it gave me the weird feeling like before I got there, people [possibly] were like, Hey dont mention it, Edwards said. I was like, Guys, its not that bad. That was a little awkward. Nobody at Thanksgiving said a word.Both Edwards and Logano attributed their wreck to hard racing, with Logano needing to dart to the inside to get the lead on the restart and Edwards knowing that Logano had a better short-run car and that could have been the championship.Logano actually rallied to finish second among the Chase finalists to champion Jimmie Johnson. He said he was proud of his season but it wasnt the success of winning the championship.Its always going to sting until you win, Logano said. Losing sucks. I dont know what else to tell you. Its always going to be that way. It better be that way.Second-place trophies are garbage, in my opinion. ... I was over it until I get here [to the banquet]. You come to events like this and you watch everyone up there -- you want to be up there getting the trophies.The wrecks appeared somewhat similar in that they could be viewed as unsuccessful blocks by the leader. But Kenseth stressed he wasnt trying to block -- that his lane was initially clear before Kyle Busch ran into the back of Bowman, thrusting him in the lane that Kenseths spotter had said was clear.It was a tough loss, Kenseth said. It was probably tougher than losing the Daytona 500 in the second-to-the-last corner. But once its over, its over. I tried to look back and see what I could have done different, and honestly thought I did everything I could do.Kenseth continued to be philosophical, saying he controlled what he could control and moved on.I was clear when I pulled to the bottom and he drove into the corner about four car lengths farther than I did, Kenseth said. Between the 88 [of Bowman] blocking the 18 [of Kyle Busch] all the way down to the inside wall and the 18 jacking him up because he needed that spot for the championship, it just shoved him right through me.I could have entered in the third groove and Im pretty sure I still would have got wiped out.The others, especially Edwards, still seemed to have a hard time understanding how what could have been so right went woefully wrong.I never had that emotion before, Edwards said. [My crew chief] Dave [Rogers] described it really well. He said it was the first time in his life he ever had that feeling like, Whoa, this isnt real.That was the toughest part -- I felt like we had the race under control. ... All of a sudden were in the fence and it all went badly. It was tough. It happened very quickly.Edwards said he watched some replays and doesnt know what he could have done differently.No regrets, Edwards said. Thats just the way it went.Logano echoed that sentiment.We did everything we could do, Logano said. We put ourselves in position to make it happen and we came up a little bit short. You can look at the circumstances a lot of different ways, but theres no regrets.While Edwards said he enjoyed the race -- That was really a lot of fun -- up until the wreck, Edwards said -- he said he expects the experience will toughen him and make winning a championship even more special.Its a very personal thing, Edwards said. 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The sum total of all of their voyages, physical and personal, had brought them to this room at the Challenger Boys & Girls Club, addressing the media following a youth-police interactive session designed to bridge the gap between people of color and law enforcement.Were often too quick to conflate prominence with experience. We think that just because someone is famous they are qualified or even obligated to speak out on societal issues, when the reality is speeches are better left to those who actually have something to say. Anthony and Catchings dont profess to have all of the solutions. What they know -- what we can tell about them -- is that theyre equipped to take on the problems.Being an athlete you have a choice: You can either stay in the bubble that were in or you can get more engaged, Catchings said later. Being knowledgeable, being informed about everything thats going on ? I do feel like because we travel so much, we are exposed to a lot. I think that does kind of play into being able to speak out on different issues.For Anthony, there is no trace the steps of his journey, no indication of where he learned what, or when. He cant even pinpoint what pressed him into action in the early hours of July 8, when he awoke from a fitful sleep and began composing an Instagram post. All he knows is that after the darkest side of America took the lives of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five Dallas police officers, It was too much.So Anthony posted a picture of the famous athletes summit featuring Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and let his thoughts flow.I just started typing, Anthony said.He enlisted his fellow athletes to call for systemic changes, to apply pressure to politicians, to make demands. They were just words on a screen. But typing is an action. Self-expression is an action. We know this because the laws of physics say actions bring about reactions, and look at the ripple effects since Anthonys Instagram post hit.Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James led off the ESPYS broadcast with another call to action. WNBA players wore protest warmup shirts, used their postgame interviews to address only Black Lives Matter-related topics, then held firm and forced the league to rescind its fines for their violations of uniform policies.Monday provided the most tangible progress yet, with about 200 youths meeting with police officers, community leaders and Olympic team members to air out thoughts from both sides of the law enforcement divide that has gone from tense to deadly lately.A couple of things came out of it that were simple, but profound, said deputy chief William Scott, a commanding officer in the Los Angeles Police Departments South Bureau.He mentioned the girl who said it would help if police officers admitted their mistakes when they made them. (There can be so little police accountability in the wake of tragic incidents, starting with a reluctance to even release the names of the officers involved.)One of our officers said, You know, youre right, Scott said. The culture of law enforcement, sometimes we dont own up to what were doing. And he pledged in public that I promise you, thats something I can do. Its those types of things that are very powerful.An African-American officer described the tension he feels when he is off-duty in plain clothes and is pulled over by white police officers.That tension is not just felt from community to police officer, said Calvin Lyons, the president and CEO of the area Boys & Girls Clubs. It can be from police officer to police officer when race and ethnicity are involved.Finding commonalities and minimizing differences are the first steps that can be taken. If one kid has a better perspective on what police officers are thinking during a stop and if one officer has a handle on interacting with people of color, the day was a success.dddddddddddd Catchings, of the Indiana Fever, said she cant wait to collaborate with the Indiana Pacers Paul George to hold a similar event back in Indianapolis.A few athletes cant undo racism or eradicate fear and hate. Through words and actions they can make a difference, however slight.Were just going to keep it going, Anthony said. Were going to keep the conversations going. But for me to just see it, when youre in it, you really dont understand or feel the impact that youre creating or that you have. Its not until you kind of sit back and unwind and think about everything and put everything into perspective.Its not time to sit back yet. We can pause for just a moment, however, and acknowledge the place this generation of athletes has reached. And lets make sure to salute the female athletes who are speaking out from empathy, not their own fear. Lyons, the Boys & Girls Club executive, noticed a slight gender-based difference in the comments during the sessions.The young ladies were speaking about: our brothers, our uncles, our fathers, Lyons said. The young men were speaking about themselves. How do I react? And the young ladies seemed to have a fear for losing someone close to them.The fear was enough to spark action from the WNBA players. The Minnesota Lynx started it, with shirts that referenced Sterling, Castile and the Dallas officers, along with a #BlackLivesMatter hashtag.Wearing the shirts, it was more of: Hey, we want to use our voice, because we want to make a difference, Catchings said. When you have 144 WNBA athletes and all 144 players supported what we did. Every single team supported it. And I think when you look at that, being able to use our voice. ? Of course we were going to get fined at first, and nobody cared. We wanted to stand up for what we believed in. When you look at the power of African-American women, and being able to step up and join causes and support our brothers, thats what its all about. It doesnt matter what race you are, when you can come together for a cause and make a movement and make sure that, united, we can make a change.Sue Bird isnt African-American, but she joined all of her Seattle Storm teammates in wearing black shirts for a photo that she and her teammates posted on Twitter. They used a Martin Luther King quote -- There comes a time when silence is betrayal -- tagged the @WNBA Twitter account and used the hashtags #WeWillNOTBeSilenced and #BlackLivesMatter.The WNBA stood down, the fines were rescinded and the side controversy was over.Its good that now the focus can be on whats really important, Bird said.The WNBA players are uniquely qualified to advance the argument, even if its a case of positives springing from negatives.A lot of us have played throughout the world, Bird said, reflecting a common occurrence since WNBA salaries dont allow for a luxurious offseason. Were college grads, weve played throughout the world, weve done all these things and with that we have a sense, I think, about us. And maybe some of that does come from having to fight for respect.Anthony hasnt had to fight many of those battles. Yet hes enlisted in this one, at the forefront of a national crisis.For me personally, Im going to continue with these small groups, Anthony said. I think a lot of things come out when you put people into small groups and talk about it.Hes bringing it home. Chuck D has said the difference between Public Enemys first album, Yo! Bum Rush The Show and their classic second album It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back was the time the group spent touring the world for the first album. They gained a global perspective that improved their art.We saw improved versions of Carmelo Anthony and Tamika Catchings on Monday, two athletes who have been enriched by every opportunity afforded them, two Olympians with one more Games in which to compete. One more Olympic trip to come, with the possibility of even more benefits. ' ' '