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Taurasi Talks About the Fallout From False Test Result
Outside the Lines (Sunday 9 a.m. ET, ESPN; re-air 10 a.m. ESPN2)
ESPN.com (Mechelle Voepel’s companion piece)

https://youtu.be/THJHctBtq1Y

WNBA star Diana Taurasi, while playing in a Turkish league last December, tested positive for Modafinil, a banned stimulant, according to results from the Turkish Doping Control Center in Ankara. Having her contract terminated, and facing a loss of endorsements and a two-year ban from international competition, including the 2012 Olympics, Taurasi took legal action and was subsequently cleared. Another basketball player and two female soccer players also had their positive results from the same lab reversed. The World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended the accreditation of the Turkish lab in question and, as a result, the lab is prohibited from carrying out any WADA-related anti-doping activities for six months.

Mavs Making Noise in NBA Playoffs – Owner Isn’t
Outside the Lines (Sunday, 9 a.m., ESPN; re-air 10 a.m. ESPN2)

https://youtu.be/LZBU2dmH0ZE

While the Dallas Mavericks have reached the NBA Finals, giving outspoken owner Mark Cuban an even larger public platform, he has taken extraordinary measures to stay out of the limelight and out of the way.

Within his report, Mark Schwarz talks to players including Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry who say they are happy their owner has kept a low profile during the team’s run to The Finals.

“I kind of like it. He’s a very emotional owner and he’s our number one fan. It’s good that he’s there at the games, but we don’t need him at every practice and doing every interview for us.” — Dirk Nowitzki, on team owner Mark Cuban’s silence

“He deflects negative stuff, and when we go into an opposing arena, all that venom goes straight into Mark which takes pressure off of our guys. He’ll sit there and take bullets right and left and put on his flak jacket and absorb all that stuff, and that gives our guys a chance to concentrate on what they need to do.” — Donnie Nelson, Mavericks’ President of Basketball Operations

“I think the way Mark has handled things this season, and in this postseason, is phenomenal. He’s learning. All of us have grown mentally tougher together, that’s what losing does to you.” – Jason Terry, on Cuban toning it down

Jill Costello Inspires UC Berkeley Crew Team
SportsCenter (Sunday, ESPN)

https://youtu.be/J0sjlg9DVBI

Jill Costello motivated the women’s crew team at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was the coxswain – the head and heart of the team. She used her knowledge of tides and winds to direct the boat, and her love of the sport to coach and encourage her teammates. Crouched in the bow shouting instructions, her big voice was a stark contrast to her tiny frame. But when she was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in 2009, the team faced a future without the person who had guided it for so long. But Costello continued to inspire, blogging about her struggle, fighting hard to return to school, and even rejoining the team for the 2010 Pac-10 championship. Tom Rinaldi chronicles Jill Costello’s remarkable story of strength and determination.

Staying the Course
ESPN.com

The fight to save a South Carolina golf course from financial meltdown, voodoo curses, and the inevitable power of the tides. Wright Thompson reports this Outside the Lines piece.

SportsCenter Coverage of Shaq’s News Conference

ESPN’s SportsCenter will present live coverage of Shaquille O’Neal’s retirement news conference Friday at 1 p.m. ET. Reporters Jeannine Edwards & Jackie MacMullan will report from O’Neal’s Isleworth, Florida home. An O’Nel-MacMullan one-on-one interview will debut on the 6 p.m. SportsCenter.