Dennis Rodman
Outside the Lines (Sunday, 9 a.m. EST, ESPN)

In March, headlines described former NBA star Dennis Rodman as “broke” and “extremely sick.” At 51, and now a dozen years removed from his last NBA rebound, he often boasts he hasn’t had a steady job since being waived by the Dallas Mavericks in 2000. For Rodman, who has had issues with alcohol, life has never come as easily as professional basketball. Sunday, the flamboyant Hall of Famer speaks candidly about life after basketball, and about allegations that he’s an alcoholic. Mark Schwarz reports.

Sunday’s guests will include Kurt Rambis, who coached Rodman on the Lakers in 1999, and Tim Keown who co-wrote “Bad As I Wanna Be,” the 1997 best-selling autobiography.

“I been hearing that for years — I’ve been hearing that I’m a cokehead, I’m a drug head.  Everyone knows that I like to have a good time. If you see me drinking, ok great. I drink! If you see me having sex every day, oh, I’m an addict. I’ve looked death in the eyes. And I say one day I could probably drink to a point where it’s like I won’t wake up.” — Dennis Rodman

“I started to go out to dinner for free. I started to get cars and stuff like that for free. I started to get a lot of things around the country. All of a sudden I land the big one, Madonna, so it’s like, ‘Hello!!’ I started to get stuff like that.” — Dennis Rodman

Longevity and Legend
SportsCenter (Sunday, 10 a.m., ESPN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_PDux7H8g

Few people know of 92-year old Yoshihiro Uchida, but he may be the most-influential person in judo in the United States. He helped the sport get recognized by the AAU in the 1950s, then served as the first U.S. judo coach in the 1964 Summer Olympic games. Today, he continues to coach at San Jose State, where he has led his team to 45 AAU national championships in the last 51 years. Tom Rinaldi reports as ESPN honors Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.

“One of the largest fellows says, ‘What are you going to do when I pick you up like this?’ And he starts swinging me around. And at that moment, when he let me down, I knew he was off balance, and I applied a throw and he went just down hard. And I said, ‘This is judo!’” — Yoshihiro Uchida, on the first class of students he taught at San Jose State  

Soccer in the Storm
ESPN.com 

Since accepting the job as manager of the Egyptian national team last September, former U.S. coach Bob Bradley, a man who had been ridiculed stateside for being too boring and too robotic, has become an A-list celebrity in soccer-crazed Egypt. His commitment to his new country and his response to its post-revolution challenges have endeared him to a population that wrestles every day with the concept of leadership. Now, the man can barely step outside his Cairo apartment without someone begging for a photo. Wayne Drehs reports this Outside the Lines piece for ESPN.com.

Worldwide Soccer Match-fixing Scandal
ESPN The Magazine (on newsstands May 18)

ESPN The Magazine’s first World Football issue features “All the World is Staged,” with a specific focus on Singaporean crime bosses, Interpol investigations, crooked Hungarians and bribed South Americans. With revenue estimated at $450 billion in Asia alone, match-fixing scandals worldwide are more widespread and pervasive than ever.

Joseph Diaz Jr.
ESPN Deportes SportsCenter (Sunday, 11 p.m.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdd2pszW8zk

With a 104-6 amateur boxing record, Mexican-American Joseph Diaz Jr. has his sights set on Olympic Gold. Nine years after first stepping into a ring as a means of self-defense while being bullied in school, the 19-year old from El Monte, Calif. became the first U.S. boxer to qualify for London 2012.