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Features on the Tuesday, Aug. 25 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

Plaxico Burress — Former N.Y. Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, will talk in detail with correspondent Jeremy Schaap in an exclusive E:60 interview, Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. ET, about the early morning hours of Nov. 29, when he accidentally shot himself in the leg with his own gun at the Latin Quarter nightclub in Midtown N.Y., and about the two-year jail sentence he now faces. Burress pleaded guilty Thursday, Aug. 20, to the weapons charge and avoided what would have been a mandatory minimum sentence of three years for second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He will head to prison when he is officially sentenced Sept. 22, and will be eligible for release after serving a little more than 20 months. The NFL has suspended Burress but will reinstate him once he completes his sentence. Burress previously had a license to carry the gun in Florida, but it had expired nearly seven months before the shooting.

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Features on the Tuesday, Aug. 18 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

Larry Fitzgerald E:60 profiles acrobatic and unstoppable wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who helped the Arizona Cardinals reach Super Bowl XLIII. E:60 follows Fitzgerald through his rigorous offseason workouts, as well as jet skiing, and playing basketball games with NFL stars. E:60 also looks at his relationship with his mother. Rachel Nichols reports.

Davonte Kelly E:60 tells the story of 11-year-old Davonte Kelly, a Brooklyn, N.Y., baseball player who survived being shot in the head while awaiting his turn on team picture day. Just two weeks after doctors found a 9 mm bullet lodged in his skull, Kelly threw out the first pitch at a Mets game, and has since returned to the field playing second base. Lisa Salters reports.

Pat Venditte When Pat Venditte was 3 years old, his father thought: If baseball has switch hitters, why not switch pitchers? Hence, the first ambidextrous pitcher in the history of modern professional baseball, baffling hitters this year with both his right and left arms as a reliever in the New York Yankees’ farm system, was created. Tom Farrey reports.

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Two news series this week will interview sports figures who’ve been in a heap of legal trouble lately.

From ESPN:

Suspended Cleveland Browns Wide Receiver Donte Stallworth Speaks Exclusively to E:60 Tuesday, August 11, at 7pm ET

Suspended Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth, in an exclusive E:60 interview, will talk in detail with correspondent Michael Smith on Tuesday, Aug. 11 at 7pm ET, about the early morning hours of March 14, when Stallworth killed a man while driving under the influence in Miami.

A plea deal was reached in June, and Stallworth was sentenced to 30 days in jail for DUI manslaughter. After serving 24 days of his sentence, Stallworth was released and is under an indefinite suspension from the NFL after meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Aug. 5. It is not known when Goodell will rule on Stallworth’s request to return to the NFL.

Critics have expressed outrage that Stallworth is just another example of a rich athlete buying his way out of hard time. E:60 will air the complete interview with Smith on Tuesday. Stallworth talks for the first time about the morning he killed 59-year-old Mario Reyes, lessons learned while in jail and how he hopes to make a positive impact in the future, on and off the football field.

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E:60, ESPN’s prime-time sport newsmagazine program, returns Tuesday, July 28, at 7pm, the first of five new shows to be aired weekly through Aug. 25. Tuesday’s program includes:

Vince Young - In his first sit-down interview about the murder of his longtime mentor, Steve McNair, Vince Young tells E:60’s Michael Smith he is ready to lead the Tennessee Titans again, and discusses the emotional impact of the murder and how he will honor is father-figure’s legacy. Young also provides details on the September 2008 night teammates feared he was missing and contemplating suicide after a game against Jacksonville in which he played poorly, was heavily booed by fans and left with a knee injury.

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Features on the Tuesday, May 12 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

UFC President Dana White — At 39, Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, is both czar and star of one of the world’s fastest growing sports — mixed martial arts. He is at the epicenter of an enterprise that has moved from spectacle to sport in less than a decade. Mostly, White is outside the box, and at times, out of control. E:60 had unprecedented access to White over a four-month period, following him to UFC events in the United States and Canada. Michael Woods reports.

Bar Brawl In Binghamton — E:60 will look at how a brutal bar brawl on May 4, 2008, between Binghamton (N.Y.) University students, one a foreign basketball player, has become an international incident pitting the United States against Serbia. The fight left senior Bryan Steinhauer in a coma. One of the alleged perpetrators, Miladin Kovacevic, a sophomore Binghamton basketball player, jumped bail and fled to his native Serbia. That started high level talks between the United States and Serbia about extraditing Kovacevic to the U.S. to face trial.

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Features on the May 5 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

The Darkest Day in Polo — A few weeks ago, the genteel world of polo was rocked when 21 prized horses died during the U.S. Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Fla., the Super Bowl of the sport. Lechuza Caracas, one of eight teams in competition, was one win away from the semifinals and favored to win until the team’s horses became ill and started falling to the ground one by one. Spectators watched in horror as veterinarians, players, grooms and total strangers worked together in vain to try to save the horses. E:60’s Rachel Nichols talks with witnesses and participants, including an exclusive on-camera interview with the team manager of Lechuza Caracas, who explains what really happened leading up to polo’s most tragic day.

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Features on the Tuesday, April 28 (7pm ET), edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

Stephon Marbury Revealed — E:60’s Lisa Salters explores the conflicting sides of Boston Celtics guard Stephon Marbury as he opens up about the most tumultuous chapters of his life. Topics covered include his public divorce with his hometown New York Knicks last winter, his feud with former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, and his shocking testimony in Thomas’ sexual-harassment trial. More intimate matters are also discussed, leaving Marbury in tears and exposing a side of him hardly anyone has seen.
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Pieces featured in the April 21 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

The Vick Dogs — E:60 correspondent Tom Farrey explores the fate of the 49 pit bulls confiscated on the property of the suspended NFL quarterback, who is serving a 23-month prison sentence for dog fighting. E:60 cameras travel to an animal sanctuary in southern Utah where some of the fighting pit bulls are being rehabilitated, and into homes in California where many of the less abused pit bulls now live — in some cases with families that have small children.

Former Dallas Cowboy Dwayne Goodrich’s Fateful Night — E:60’s Jeremy Schaap gained unprecedented access to and has the first television interview with former Fiesta Bowl MVP and Dallas Cowboy Dwayne Goodrich in the Texas prison where he is serving a 12-and-a-half year sentence. Goodrich left the scene of a deadly highway accident January 14, 2003, when a car he was driving slammed into and killed two good Samaritans who were trying to rescue the driver of a burning car on Interstate 35 in Dallas.

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ESPN’s award-winning prime-time newsmagazine series E:60, on hiatus since November, will return with five weekly, original episodes beginning Tuesday, April 14, at 7pm ET and ending May 12. The program, which launched in October 2007, combines investigative reporting, in-depth profiles of intriguing sports personalities, and features on emerging star athletes. These stories are presented in a fresh and innovative format that incorporates producer/correspondent meetings.

Highlights from the E:60’s new run:

Lord of the Ring —  An access-driven profile of Vince McMahon and the inner workings of WWE on the 25th anniversary of WrestleMania, one of the biggest entertainment events in the United States (April 14)
Danger in the Air — An E:60 exclusive investigation of air quality in ice hockey and ice skating rinks across the country and the potential risks to young hockey players and figure skaters (April 14)
Coach — The story of Don Meyer, 64-year-old basketball coach of Division II Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D., whose life took a tragic turn while he was on the cusp of surpassing Bob Knight for the most basketball wins in the NCAA Men’s Basketball history (April 14)

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Features on the Nov. 11 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

Dwyane Wade He’s the 2006 NBA Finals MVP, a four-time NBA All Star, and an Olympic gold medalist. But Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade’s proudest moment was this spring when he helped dedicate the church he bought for his mother, Pastor Jolinda Wade, in Chicago — the culmination of an emotional journey, watching his mother’s life turn around from the ruins of alcohol and drug abuse. Now sober for seven years, Jolinda Wade turned to drugs and alcohol following her divorce from Dwyane’s father, Dwyane, Sr., when Dwyane was just a child. The responsibility of caring for little Dwyane was left to his sister, Tragil, who was five years older. With the family struggling, Tragil made the ultimate move to save her brother, telling him that they were going to the movies and instead leaving him with their father who had offered to raise him. While Dwyane Wade developed into a top basketball player under his father’s guidance, his mother spiraled deeper into addiction. She was in and out of prison for using and selling drugs. One day, after failing to report for a work-release program, Jolinda Wade became a fugitive from the law. On Oct. 14, 2001, Jolinda’s life took a dramatic turn. Despite being high most of the time, she was still attending church and on that day, she says, the Lord spoke to her. Then in December 2001, she decided to turn herself in and return to prison. While in prison, Jolinda began a ministry and studied to become an ordained minister. E:60 correspondent Lisa Salters, sits down with Dwyane and his mother, Baptist pastor Jolinda Wade, to discuss their relationship.

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