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For Caitlyn Jenner, there are places to be and people to speak with.There are camera crews and magazine covers, finely crafted documentaries and the raw urgency of reality TV. There are ex-spouses with stories to share and 10 children, many of them living their own lives, out loud and then some. There are more transgender women getting to tell their stories about their life journeys.And yet, almost a year-and-a-half since going public with her gender transition, Jenner says her life is much less complicated than it has ever been.I dont have any more lies, she told ESPN. Its tough to go through life when youre lying to yourself, lying to your family all the time, lying to the public about who you are. Every time I would confide in somebody over the last 50 years, it was always such a weight off my shoulder, like, Whew. I dont have to lie to that person about who I am anymore. They understand.Today, I just can get up, be myself and have a smile on my face. I finally found happiness in my life.Forty years after Jenner won the decathlon gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, we sat down with her to relive that event. We asked, how should we refer to the person who won over America -- and the world -- back then?As Bruce, she says. Over the last year-and-a-half, Ive met some of the most wonderful, smart, intelligent trans people out there. They all kinda say the same thing: When you go through something like this, everybody from the outside looking in thinks, Oh my God, youre just a totally different person now. No, not really.Jenner, now 66, has no issue accessing thoughts and feelings from that time, and no shortage of stories about everything that made that medal possible.I had a better athletic mind [than the competition], she says. Every time I would get under a tremendous amount of pressure, I could take that pressure and turn it into performance. My greatest accomplishment at the Games, which made me the most happy when it was over with, [was that] I went in and scored 8,634 points. Nobody had ever done that before.As we watch the event again, Jenner starts weighing in. There was the moment when Jenner had cleared the opening height in the pole vault, before an audience of ... none?The stadium was totally empty, she recalls. They had a morning session and then an afternoon session, and it was separate tickets. So you went to the morning session, and then everybody had to leave. When I cleared it on my opening height, there was nobody around. It was just little old me and my pole-vaulting pole.Even Jenners mother and father werent there. When my parents came back in, they kept watching the bar go up, she says. They didnt know I had cleared my opening height, so theyre all worried to death that [I was going to] come in at too high a height and not make it.The 1,500 meters would be a glorious conclusion, but the issue had already been settled. Jenner would win the gold.Now heres the problem I have, Jenner says now, with a smile. Decathlon -- 10 events, OK? Youve got to go through two days of competition for one lousy medal. Michael Phelps gets a medal in every event, in every Olympics -- every event! Yeah, I only got one medal. All that work, one medal, but its a good medal.At 11 p.m. that night in Montreal, sitting down with ABCs Jim Lampley, Jenner would start to get the full sense of the opportunities that awaited. Whatever the appeal to Madison Avenue and corporate America, Jenner didnt seem like the embodiment of youthful irony or mid-70s cool to anyone. On Saturday Night Live, the home office of cultural hipness back then, John Belushi would mock straight-arrow Jenners celebration and subsequent endorsement deals with a Marv Albert-narrated parody ad.There was a lot we didnt know.Back when I was young, in the 50s and the 60s, they didnt even have a name for gender dysphoria, Jenner says. I was a dyslexic kid, suffering from low self-esteem, I had gender issues ... all these issues going on inside that I didnt want anybody to know. ... But it always came back to identity. After the Games were over with, I actually got a little scared, thinking, Oh my god, I lost my beard. What do I do now?There was television work, those endorsements, children to raise. And there were secrets to keep.For the Games, I woke up every day excited about the day, Jenner recalls. Then, once the Games were over with, to be honest with you, for many, many, many, many, many years, I lost that in life. I could care less about the next day. There were so many days that I didnt care if I got out of bed. At one time in the 80s, I spent almost six years in my house, never really came out. I didnt fit in with the males, I didnt fit in with the females. I was kind of stuck in the middle of limbo. It was really quite depressing.What the Games once did for Jenner, making the decision to live life publicly as a transgender woman has done once more.Because of whats happened over the last year-and-a-half, I really feel like I got my mojo back, she says. I have a platform where I think I can make a difference. A lot of issues in the LGBT world, around the world -- we have tremendous issues in the trans community with acceptance, with understanding. We have a nine-times higher suicide rate for young kids. Theres a lot of hatred [and] bigotry out there.Two days might have earned Jenner a platform; four decades later, she believes she finally knows how to use it.What Im doing today is so much more important than the Games, she says.Yeezy Boost 350 China Discount Adidas Nmd r1 . -- Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Alrdridge were again the go-to duo for the Trail Blazers against the Kings. http://www.nmdsneakerssale.com/yeezy-boost-350-deals.html . Speaking to the Chicago Tribune at baseballs Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Boras called the former home of the Expos a "tremendous environment" for baseball. Adidas Springblade China . -- Stanford squashed Oregons national championship hopes again, schooling the Ducks in power football. Adidas Nmd r1 China . Supported by three-run homers from Jayson Werth and Wilson Ramos, the young right-hander went seven strong innings in the Washington Nationals 8-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.DALLAS -- A grim-faced Tom Herman could hear the whoops and hollers of SMU players as the Houston coached tried to explain a shocking 38-16 loss to the Mustangs on Saturday night.Was it hard to listen to that celebration?More than you know, Herman said.Ben Hicks threw for three touchdowns and ran for another score in SMUs first win over a ranked team in five years.The Cougars (6-2, 3-2 American) lost for the second time after a 5-0 start that included a season-opening win over then-No. 3 Oklahoma that vaulted Houston into the Top 10.The last time the Mustangs (3-4, 1-2) beat a team ranked 11th or higher, they were No. 4 and finishing off a near-perfect 1982 season (11-0-1) with a 7-3 victory over sixth-ranked Pittsburgh in the Cotton Bowl. SMU tied No. 7 Texas A&M in 1994.It was SMUs fourth win in 20 tries against Houston since returning from the so-called death penalty in 1989. The first loss was 95-21.For us to come in and get a signature win like this is huge, SMU coach Chad Morris said. And I shared with our players for the last two weeks, `It just takes one (win) to start a revolution. It just takes one win to put some wind in our sails.Greg Ward Jr. couldnt shake a persistent SMU pass rush or find receivers for big plays, finishing with 241 yards passing -- almost 100 below his average -- and just 3 yards rushing on 17 carries thanks to seven sacks.One of the sacks was for an 18-yard loss to the Houston 22 when coach Tom Herman went for it on fourth down trailing 28-14 early in the fourth quarter.Herman got conservative moments later, choosing a 19-yard field goal attempt on fourth down from the SMU 2. Ty Cummings hit the right upright for his second miss.Immense introspection when you lose a game like that, Herman said. Well leave no stone unturned to figure out why that happened.Hicks was 16 of 31 for 228 yards, including a 28-yard touchdown to a wide-open James Proche for a 28-7 lead in the final seconds of the first half. SMU appeared content to run out the clock before a 40-yard run by Braeden West, who had 115 yards rushing and a punctuating touchdown late.THE TAKEAWAYHouston: Herman figured to be the hottest name in coaching for the offseason searches of LSU and any other high-profile programs that might be looking.dddddddddddd Perhaps that doesnt change, but this October isnt helping. Convincing wins over Florida State in the Peach Bowl and the Sooners in this years opener have lost some luster.SMU: Morris, the second-year coach who went 2-10 in his debut season, has a good chance to build on his biggest win, and one of the programs biggest since the crippling NCAA sanctions almost 30 years ago. The Mustangs faded in the second half after strong early efforts against two other high-scoring Texas teams, Baylor and TCU. They finished the job this time.TONE-SETTING TURNOVERSThe Cougars lost two fumbles in the first quarter and never got their high-powered offense going. Houston was outgained 406-303. When you play a team at their place thats fresh, thats hungry, motivated, to give them life like that, Herman said. Youre playing catch-up the whole game from that point on.CAREER GAMESMU defensive end Jarvis Pruitt recovered one of the fumbles and had three sacks in the Mustangs first win over a ranked team since beating No. 20 TCU 40-33 in overtime in 2011.POLL IMPLICATIONSHouston: The Cougars could tumble all the way out of the rankings after being at No. 6 for several weeks following the victory over the Sooners. The fall has been sudden for a program coming off its first New Years bowl in 30 years and the second 13-win season in program history.UP NEXTHouston: The Cougars start a stretch of three straight home games against UCF next Saturday. That stretch ends against No. 7 Louisville. They also get a bye after nine straight weeks of playing.Its a one-game season to get to that bye week and put everything weve got into protecting our home stadium and preparing and executing better than we did tonight, Herman said.SMU: The Mustangs visit Tulane next Saturday before a home game against Memphis, which just lost its first conference game against Navy.---Online:AP college football website: http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '