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In between the jokes with referees and half-court hook shots, meadowlark helped to introduce a better brand of basketball to the world. the way that he and the folks that he was from were playing in cities like chicago and new york and philly and l.a., the globetrotters had been a catalyst in integrating the nba and meadowlark lemon showed them some more of what they were missing. in a lot of ways, meadowlark lemon was larger than life. he was one of the original black stars and grew up in a wor...

Family. >> exactly. >> if its reduced to a fine, does that exactly do what, as you pointed out, the nfl have been seen as soft when it comes to punishment? if they give a suspension and take it away, does that help them? >> that would not help them. certainly. there is an independent arbitrator that oversees these things. the question is whether or not the referees did enough. i would expect there to be perhaps quiet discipline for the referee for letting that game get out of control. it is on b...

Graham said the republican party made progress in recognizing the danger of isis and that clears the way for him to step down. a deadly incident in las vegas with one killed and two dozen injured after a woman rammed her carjacking into pedestrians. she is in jail and we are waiting a news conference from the police department there. and the man who bought several of the guns used in the san bernardino terror attack is facing a judge today. he plotted terror attacks possibly with syed rizwan far...

With referees during games. including rulings in situations not currently covered by instant replay reviews. now to an historic evening in u.s. womens soccer. amy wambach played her final game with the u.s. womens national soccer team last night. the 35-year-old striker left the pitch in the 72nd minute to a cheering crowd. handed off her captains arm band and kicked off her cleats for the last time. wambach ends her career with 184 international goals. a record number for both men and women. sh...

>> young kids dont know they are taking on the risk. it is a lot higher risk. horse back riding has the risk of breaking your neck. you have to mitigate the risk by finding the good techniques, the refer referees and coaches and association. >> lets talk about safety on the couch. >> i had a helmet with a rubber sock. band here, rubber stopper here. >> it was a party hat. >> it was a party hat with a face mask.

Big institutions. all the people that used to be gatekeepers really dont have a lot of credibility. even you saw all of those people from dick cheney, paul ryan, to company out and condemn donald trump. the base doesnt care. they have seen the party and these big institutions fail in their eyes so when it comes to them being referees, they just dont have a lot of credibility. >> jeff, but then this up for me. this notion that even if the other nominees dropped out and there were a consolidation ...

Of the attackers came through on one of the rafts, no, do not come here. what would you say to the states, based upon what you saw? >> yes, is the threat real isis is sending in terrorist as among referees. >>? we cannot punish refugees because of a few. were a country of refugees, immigrants, this is not the time to shut our doors. >> going back on monday, because you were so moved by what you saw and who you helped, in 30 seconds i have with you, tell me about that little boy on halloween nigh...

>> we planned this. >> of course, the internet had a few creative things to say about the color rush look. what are fans saying? theyre thinking about power rangers battling it out. >> so funny. >> its like green or red gum i bears fighting on the field. >> i like this guys twitter name. mr. beastly. he channels his inner elf saying i dont know what the fuss is about. im digging these jerseys. >> some of the throwback jerseys are terrible. i know im going to get backlash from this. >> probably f...

Inappropriately in the stands and that is a distraction to the referees. its a problem. we cant ignore that. and i think that the coaches and the referees may sometimes be influenced by that behavior but they all have to look at themselves and collectively change. otherwise im saying to a sport that i once loved and a sport that my son adored, if we dont change, i dont think young children should play football anymore. we have to look forward and make a change. >> congressman, according to the n...

Medical experts to look at it, study it, analyze the deaths over the last two years and make us some hard recommendations on how we can do this. football is a great game, but when we start losing our young people because of football and the manner that its played, i think we all owe an investment to figure out how to make it safer, including the nfl have region a stake in making sure that high school, little league and junior high school is safe. >> you said a little while ago football was a spo...