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Chamique Holdsclaw: Turning Point
Outside the Lines (Sunday, 9 a.m. ET, ESPN2)

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Chamique Holdsclaw, once one of the country’s greatest female basketball players, hit perhaps the lowest point in her life when she was jailed after vandalizing and firing a gun into her ex-girlfriend’s vehicle last November. She discusses this turning point with Josina Anderson, and reveals something she recently learned about herself that put her past in a different perspective

“Jail was tough, the worst 24 hours. The officer told me, ‘When you get down there, do not talk to anyone.’ The guys were like, ‘Hey, let’s play some one on one.’ They keep coming in and they know who I am and they’re like, ‘Oh, ain’t you the basketball player?’” — Holdsclaw

Richie Parker: Drive
(Sunday, 10 a.m., ESPN2)

https://youtu.be/oEUaDvszRNU

Designing chassis and body components for drivers Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Hendrick Motorsports is no easy task for 30-year-old vehicle engineer Richie Parker. That is because he does all his design work the way he does nearly everything in life: with his feet, after being born with no arms. Tom Rinaldi reports.

“It’s very demanding. When we have somebody like Chad Knaus who comes back from the racetrack and says he needs something next week that’s going to help him win a race, ‘No’ is never the answer.” — Richie Parker

“Based on his resume, I knew he could do the things that I needed him to do — it was more a question of how?” — Rex Stump, Hendrick engineering manager, on his impression of Parker during his initial job interview

Blum Hitting Speed Bumps Driving Toward Sprint Cup Series
Reportaje Especial (Sunday, 11 p.m., ESPN Deportes)

https://youtu.be/rVrIyxiDBLc

Juan Carlos Blum has started 12 races since joining the NASCAR Nationwide series last year, but the road to becoming the first Mexican driver in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series has proven bumpier than he anticipated. ESPN Deportes joined Blum as he celebrated his 19^th birthday at the track.

Unity with the Universe
ESPN.com

Can a fly rod really hold the secret of life? In the central Montana mountains, a paralyzed man and his wife are proving the answer just might be yes. Wright Thompson reports. See below “Focal Point” for more on this piece.

For video: A look inside Tom Morgan Rodsmiths

 

“FOCAL POINT”Photographer Ross Dettman is an admitted “outdoors person,” so he accepted the request to shoot ESPN.com writer Wright Thompson’s story on a family making fly fishing rods in mountains of Montana “in a split second.”But what made the assignment, “one of the favorite stories I’ve ever done,” was what he encountered indoors – inside the home of Gerri Carlson, and her husband Tom Morgan, who makes the rods, and for whom she cares for because he is paralyzed from the neck down. “These are the stories I love being a part of,” says the Chicago-based Dettman, who has photographed a myriad of major sporting events since he began shooting for ESPN The Magazineupon its inception in March 1998. “You can be on the sideline elbowing for position, but this has the cinematic aspect – the man in the water, and the portraits of Tom and Gerri, which present a very different feel.” The first shoot took place more than a year ago, with Dettman returning to “fill in the pieces” over July Fourth weekend. “Wright is such a visual writer, he is fun to work with and has a great appreciation of what I do as a photographer,” Dettman says. “There were a lot of threads to this story that made it amazing, all under the veil of the difficult life Tom has to deal with every day. This is an emotional story in every sense, and they gave me incredible access, even asking if I’d like to shoot some very personal things. There’s a true love story here.” Ed Note: Dettman used a Canon 1DX and 5D Mark III bodies

The first shoot took place more than a year ago, with Dettman returning to “fill in the pieces” over July Fourth weekend.

“Wright is such a visual writer, he is fun to work with and has a great appreciation of what I do as a photographer,” Dettman says. “There were a lot of threads to this story that made it amazing, all under the veil of the difficult life Tom has to deal with every day. This is an emotional story in every sense, and they gave me incredible access, even asking if I’d like to shoot some very personal things. There’s a true love story here.”

 

Ed Note: Dettman used a Canon 1DX and 5D Mark III bodies