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The NBA’s Sterling Scandal
Outside the Lines (Sunday 9 a.m. ET, ESPN, 10 a.m. ESPN2)
ESPN.com (Investigative reporter Mike Fish piece posts Sunday)

Credit: ESPN/Mike Fish
John Barr with Olden Polynice

The NBA took immediate action following the Donald Sterling scandal, banning the Clippers owner for life and setting a June 3 hearing that could force he and his wife, Shelly, to sell the team. It also hired a race relations and diversity expert to analyze how the has impacted the league, but some say its actions fail to make up for years of inaction while the Sterlings engaged in racist and discriminatory conduct. Reporter John Barr shares some of the revealing depositions from discrimination cases involving the Sterlings.

Guests will include ESPN.com senior writer Ramona Shelburne and ESPN The Magazine senior writer Peter Keating.

“He mentioned specifically that Hispanics just sit around all day watching television smoking cigarettes and doing nothing else.”  — Dixie Martin, former manager of a Sterling-owned apartment building in Los Angeles

“They were partners. That’s the only way I look at it. They were partners. They’re complicit just like he is, because you cannot allow this man to do all this stuff for all these years, and be held blameless. You can’t.” – Olden Polynice, former Clippers player on the NBA’s accountability in the Sterling case

 

 

 

Forty Years Ago: 10-Cent Beer Night
SportsCenter(10 a.m., Sunday, ESPN)

The Cleveland Indians were perennial cellar dwellers during the 1970s and needed ways to draw fans to games. On June 4, 1974, they staged a promotion — 10-Cent Beer Night — that went terribly amiss when the fun and festivities turned into a brawl between players and fans leading to numerous injuries and arrests. Cleveland native Bob Golic, three-time NFL Pro Bowler with the Browns and older brother of ESPN’s Mike Golic, looks back at this beer-soaked night 40 years later.

“For one dollar, you could get a ticket in the bleachers for 50 cents and five beers.” — Jim Bede, fan who attended Beer Night

“You know, I must’ve had probably 15 or 20 pounds of hot dogs thrown at me. The one memorable thing I had thrown at me was an empty gallon jug of Thunderbird wine.” — Mike Hargrove, Texas Rangers first baseman on Beer Night

 

 

Finally, K-State Makes the Right Call
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Two months later, Kansas State grants “OK” to Leticia Romero’s transfer request. Mechelle Voepel discusses what may have contributed to Kansas State changing its stance on releasing Romero from her basketball scholarship and allowing her to play for another school.

 

 

A Portrait Of Luis Suarez
ESPN.com
EDITOR’S NOTE:This story contains explicit language

Last year, Liverpool Striker Luis Suarez bit Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic on the arm. Ivanovic shouldn’t have been shocked. Suarez was suspended in 2010 for a similar incident. After the match, Suarez said, “I completely lost it.” ESPN senior writer Wright Thompson explores Luis Suarez’s complicated personality.

 

 

Female Refs Deserve Their Shot
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Two women are on the NFL’s list of 2014 officials which was announced last week. Sarah Thomas and Maia Chaka are part of a group of 21 officials who will referee a preseason game. Next year, they will be eligible for regular-season NFL games. They would be the first non-replacement female refs in the history of the NFL. Jane McManus reports.

 

 

“El fútbol después del fútbol”
ESPN Deportes (Friday, noon)

The latest episode of the Destino Futbol series leading up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, “El fútbol después del fútbol,” focuses on the stories of three football players that are in different stages of their career and how they will manage life and priorities after football.