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The longest suspension anybody had with a drug policy was 100 games. this more than doubles that. >> you've 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 kind of punishment they did. what they needed was more to corroborate the relationship. from all the s...

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 it's 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 they'll be able to get the suspension taken down even further but if it sticks after the appeals process he will be suspended for this season and then all of next season. >> help us understand what...

>> we came into the tournament. we knew no one knew who we were or where we were or most people don't know where southwest florida is. >> reporter: it's a secret no longer. even the city's 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 brackets submitted to espn.com even had this team making it to the sweet 16. the school is ecstatic. thi...

>> we came into this tournament, we knew no one knew who we were or where we were. most people don't know where ft. myers or southwest florida is. >> reporter: it's a secret no longer. even the city's 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% of the 8.1 million brackets submitted to espn.com even had this team making it to the sweet 16. ...

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 what's 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 they're calling the fail mary. >> the fail mary. >> not the hail mary. i got that off espn.com. >> did they coin that recently or was that right out of the gate? >> i read it on espn yesterday....