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From espn.com. >> im just joining in. >> were talking about the larger legacy lebron would like to lead off the basketball court. >> i think it looks remarkably different from the first part of his career. so far, i think it looked for a lot of us that he was part of that jordan blueprint. very successful commercially. obviously, the relationship with nike, that he was building his brand kind of that way. and hes the first probably social media superstar that weve had in sports. but now with tha...

After the longhorn like you cannot believe. >> he looks kind of mean behind you. lets look at the upsets in the final four. your championship bracket looks a lot different than other peoples. >> well, you know, i think the one beauty of college basketball, i think march madness, to me, i dont know about you guys, i dont mind youre a big baseball guy, but the bottom line to me is that for three weeks, there is no sporting event that captivates america like march madness. three weeks you have gran...

Sources say mcqueary abused as a boy. this is what i think it should have been. penn state fan blows whistle to d.a. after abuse revealed in online chat, and i refer to excellent reporting at espns magazine by donovan nata jr. under the headline, the whistle-blowers last query. remember mike mcqueary, big red head, star quarterback, on to be an assistant coach under the tutelage of joe paterno. its he who sees something despicable taking place in a zhaoer in 2001 involving jerry sandusky but we ...

Readers on monday. "we have made one massive mistake. i have thought about it for nearly three solid days and ive run out of ways to kick myself about it. how did it never occur to any of us? how? how could we have all blown it? that mistake was someone familiar with the transgender community should have read calebs football draft. this never occurred to us. nobody ever brought it up." simmons also declined to be here today. the controversy had many of us in the newsroom this week asking what et...

Racister it -- racist stereo typing of us in american sports. you never know what tipping point is and then you look back and say, ah, that was the tipping point. it doesnt mean the last thing made it happen. its cumulative. >> yeah, well, i think the trajectory of that tipping point has got to come from somewhere. i read back a transcript of the november 17th, last year, espn.com event that you did when you had a conversation. some of what was said was absolutely horrific to you, and you endure...

The longest suspension anybody had with a drug policy was 100 games. this more than doubles that. >> youve seen some of the evidence against a-rod. how strong is it, t.j.? >> reporter: well, when we saw it, it was compelling. my colleague mike fish and i from espn.com have been working on it since last summer. we obtained documents from the clinic. some written by tony bosch, the founder of the clinic hems. just that was pretty compelling but probably not enough to, for baseball to lower the kin...

Night in chicago and these arbitration hearings, what he would be going through now, they take quite a while. a-rod could get to play in to september while this arbitration hearing is going on. so its pretty good win for a-rod. not only not banned for life, playing through the appeals process and, you know, he makes about half a billion dollars in his career and got pretty good lawyers and a chance theyll be able to get the suspension taken down even further but if it sticks after the appeals pr...

>> we came into the tournament. we knew no one knew who we were or where we were or most people dont know where southwest florida is. >> reporter: its a secret no longer. even the citys website has been updated with their new status, dunk city. >> just unbelievable. i did not expect this. >> reporter: the school has never played in the ncaa tournament. before the season started. fgcu was recruiting players for walk-on tryouts, unheard of among elite teams. less than 1% of the 8.1 million bracket...

>> we came into this tournament, we knew no one knew who we were or where we were. most people dont know where ft. myers or southwest florida is. >> reporter: its a secret no longer. even the citys website has been updated with their new status, dunk city. >> just unbelievable. i did not expect this. this is crazy. >> reporter: the school has never played in the ncaa tournament. before the season started. fgcu was recruiting players for walk-on tryouts, unheard of among elite teams. less than 1%...

The first of three between these two guys. >> looking forward to it. also coming up, christmas coming early for a little boy who could really use the cheer. now his entire neighborhood is getting in the spirit. >> and whats black and white and booed all over? >> the refs. >> yep. the replacement refs who are now talking about their time filling in on the field and that infamous monday night call that theyre calling the fail mary. >> the fail mary. >> not the hail mary. i got that off espn.com....