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Buildings. there was enough evidence that sterling settled for huge amounts. one time it was a record amount. an all-star worked for sterling and the management of the clippers. baylor filed a lawsuit against sterling and one of the quotes entered into the record in that suit is sterling allegedly saying that the reason he discriminated back in his apartment buildings was that, quote, black tenants smell and attract verment. and the nba has been criticized in the past for not doing anything abou...

A picture that sterlings girlfriend took with nba hall of famer magic johnson. today theres been more conversations about this involving magic johnson. yesterday he tweeted about it. today he was on espn and said this isnt sterlings first brush with the issue of race. >> plain and simple, when you heard those comments, magic, what was your reaction? >> well, i was really upset. you know, you cant understand how hurt i was and also i was hurt for all african-americans and all minorities because w...

>> to me, one of the worst kept secrets in the history of sports, not just in the nba or nfl, all sports. in college football, the s.e.c. was segregated for decades. then in the late 1960s, legendary coach blair bryant gets obliterated by sam cunningham, thats when he went to the powers at be at the state of alabama, not just the university, and said weve got to get players like that, meaning black players. right now the southeastern conference is perhaps like 90% black players out there. the be...

Is a beloved figure, forgotten presidency by both democrats and republicans. but over the one term that he served in office, he was sort of surprisingly very popular, right up there. hes third there after jfk and ike. see that? where does ronald reagan fit into this mix. lets drop him in there. ronald reagan ends up being right there in the middle, 52.8. hes between george w. bush and bill clinton. a little bit better than george w. bush, a little bit worse than bill clinton and lbj. that is how...

If you look at the all-time approval rating highs and all-time approval rating lows for presidents since world war ii, ronald reagan ends up fair to midling on those scores as well. not the highest, not the lowest, right in the middle. ronald reagans presidency had a lot of problems. he blew up huge, huge unprecedented deficits. the gap between the rich and the poor got much worse. the aids epidemic, which he did worse than ignore, the stock market crash in 1987, the iran contra scandal very eas...

Chicago mayor rahm emanuel echoed that sentiment at the rally against the violence. >> every child in the city of chicago deserves a childhood. every child deserves to hear laughter. >> right. >> any child where that laughter has been replaced by the familiarity of gun violence has had their childhood taken from them. >> so far this year, 83 people have been murdered and its only april. last years murder count, 415, the lowest since 1965 but still the highest of any american city last year. some...

It is time now to brew on this. what can be worse than the apparently the airlines. according to a new report airlines rated the lowest in customer satisfaction among all travel related industries touring 6 -- scoring 69 out of 100 points. the irs subscription tv and social media sites they got even better scores. the most complaints for passengers were about seat comfort which scored 63 out of 100 points. in flight service scoring 67 points. the check in process and baggage handling they rank t...

Rockets they can bring it down to $10 million. what the person in charge of spacex wants to let anyone go to space and people go to mars. he says the only way we can do that is if space flight is cheap. >> are you surprised to see the video? because they have been testing over water and now it happened on land. >> they have done some test over land not as impressive as this. this is by far the highest and the biggest one. they did a similar test overw p water with one that went to space. they la...

And everything they financially deserve. like dont have a jersey with my number on it but not my name on it, selling and getting money. come on. >> swin, we know the headline now, swin cash tells coach to have several seats. but part of it is when we look just at the map across the country, david, of basketball and football coaches, right, in all of these states, the highest paid public employee is either an athletic director or a coach. and the idea that states are paying the coaches that but n...

Guilt. whether the survivors because there are so few of them, if theyre going to take these extreme measures. one of the risks here in the korean culture is that the suicide rate is one of the highest in the world. if you look at the who list year after year, it ranks in the top ten. so that is a big concern. and what happened with the vice principal is that he reportedly said he simply couldnt take it, that he was one of the adults who was supposed to protect the children. and he survived and ...