he was close to her. only god can judge, that's what everyone is saying. and yeah, ironically she said it as well. and hopefully that does happen. >> >> the boeing 777 wide body has 239 passengers and crew members on board. just moments ago, the airline briefed reporters and we learned that the flight included four americans. three adults and one infant. the plane disappeared about two hours into a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. china state-run news agency said radar contact was lost with the airliner as it was flying over

the ho chi minh air traffic in vietnam. airline officials did give the nationalities of the passengers, the vast majority chinese. the captain was a veteran with more than three decades at the airlines. we will continue to bring you any developments. again, four americans on board, including an infant. "unguarded with rachel nichols" starts right now. tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols." some red sox players kept their beards, while others shaved. >> i was like, what did i just do? >> unhappy. two years ago the blade runner oscar pistorius was a hero the world over. now he's on trial for murder. >> he took a gun and shot this girl reeva steenkamp and she's

dead now. unmatched. a girl set a school record for most wins on the wrestling mat. all against boys. ♪ welcome to "unguarded." last fall, the boston red sox didn't just become world series champions, they became a phenomena. the bushy beards, the free spirited approach, the way they uplifted their city in the wake of the boston marathon bombings. now spring training has arrived and the boys are back. i spoke with three of the players that make of the heart of that team. jonny gomes, mike napoli and david ross.

what sit like to be all back together again? >> you know, as cliche as it sounds, it was like being away from your family for four months. it's good to be back in the little safety nest we've built. >> you seem so close. >> i'll be talking to these guys hopefully 70, if they're still alive. >> your manager said he had to do a little bit of a double take when he walked back in the clubhouse, especially seeing the difference. we got the side by side of jonny here. i mean, you know, this is not the same perp when you look at the side by side photos. >> we're in free agency here. so i had to shave some years off, you know. so yeah, the whole thing was a setup. >> did anybody say, i don't quite recognize you? >> i had to pick him up the first day and i was driving, i

couldn't even look at him. it was just different. >> you didn't shave. you trimmed a little bit but you didn't shave. >> i like it. i don't know. it's part of me and i don't think i have a wife like these guys. >> i did shed a tear when i cut mine off. i'm like, man, what did i just do? it was a lot of work to get that thing where it was. >> did you think if you hit a rough patch in the season the beards will come out again? >> no. there was a couple of rough patches with the beard. so we didn't want to take it off. >> my career is a rough patch. >> yeah. i tell you what, at the end of the day, it is time to turn the page on the beard. there are some great athletes and ball players behind these beards. >> you had so many reasons to have those things to bring you together. and then of course, the boston marathon bombing so early in the season. what do you remember about that

day and how the news filtered to you? >> the first thing that came to my mine is somebody left the gas on of there was an explosion or electrical box blew up. we didn't know what was going on. cell phone's not working. it was just a weird feeling. we didn't know what to do. >> we had two buses going this way and just getting past by fire trucks and ambulances and police cars. >> you guys were heading out to cleveland. >> we were going to cleveland. >> obviously the bombing explosion and now we're getting on an airplane, the one thing you fear the most if you're in the air. >> by the time we got to cleveland, i've never seen as quick of a turn around of a group of guys. the responsibility we felt as a team to come together and hey, like this is a tough time, let's go out here and show them what the red sox are all about and let's represent boston in the right way.

>> you guys represent boston in such an intrinsic way. you were something reliable that people could hold on to. >> we were going out there to do something good so they could get their minds off of it for a couple of hours. >> i thought there was a good chance after that bombing, coming to the game, oh, i don't want to go to the game, it's not safe. that thing was just packed. that boston area, they don't shy away from anything. >> after you guys won, one of the great traditions in boston, the duck boat trade. and you laid down at the marathon finish line that trophy. >> yeah, that was unbelievable. ♪ god bless america >> there's not many championship parades that come to a halt, the fact that we put that world series trophy, kind of put a

band-aid on that area and the bad thoughts. now people can look at that area and be like, that's where we put the world series trophy versus that's where the bomb went off. so i think that was extremely important for the city. >> it was a moment that, during our celebration and all the parade and everybody screaming for us, everything stopped. this is how important it was to us. >> you guys are going to be playing again when they run the boston marathon again. it's a tradition in boston. that's how tied up you guys are in that event. what do you think that's going to be like? >> it's going to be a lot. it's definitely going to be a lot. i know for me personally, i'm about the non-runner of any of the guys on the team. if i wasn't playing baseball, i would want to run. that's how i feel tied to this city and mare sthon. i would want to be part of what's going to go on there. >> when they do run the boston marathon next month, the start

is going to timed to pass in front of fenway right around the fifth inning. coming up, much more from the red sox, including just what led to this from jimmy fallon. >> earning your new nickname, mike nipoli. and it feels like your lifeate revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience

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an apron is not quitting until you've made something a little better. what does an apron have to do with car insurance? for us, everything. i'm rachel nichols and welcome back to "unguarded." we've been talking to jonny gomes, mike napoli and david ross. last season they helped engineer

one of the greatest turn arounds in the history of baseball, winning the world series with a team the previous year finished dead last in its division. maybe that's why they were celebrating so hard. so what is it like in the aftermath of a world series win? >> i didn't come down for the longest time. is your feet back on the ground? no, and i don't want to. >> you're tasting food from three weeks ago. >> yes. >> red sox first baseman mike napoli, for walking around boston shirtless after the world series parade, there by earning your new nickname mike nipoli. >> no mention of this would be complete without mike, who wandered the streets of boston after hours, without a shirt. >> i would do it again. >> better him than one of us. we might have been naked. >> that's how the text messages

started. >> it was a good month for sure. >> is mike nipoli is going to catch on? >> what is the mentality like? >> the clubhouse and -- thank you, buddy. >> do you think there's been a little cultural change in baseball because of your team last year? >> i think so. they're still not talking about our pitching staff. >> it's just ironic how that team worked out last year to we didn't have one guy in the top ten in the cy young or the mvp. but we had the best team. it was all a message to us and the message to the league, that that works. you know? that works, 100%. >> so you now yo gout in the world and try to do this again. you know that the record is not good. the world series hangover. no red sox team has made it back after winning the year before. >> we're the second team in the history of the game to go from

worst to win the world series. to be able to roll into spring training with the worst record and set a goal to win the world series is either stupid or you guys are awesome and it turns out we're awesome. so impossible has taken away. so i think we're up for the challenge. >> certainly sounds like they are. and we will talk pitching for a moment, too. red sox right hander john lackey, who was just tremendous during the playoffs, he's one of the 34% of major league pitchers who wouldn't even be playing baseball anymore if not for the career saving procedure called tommy john's surgery. invented by dr. frank job. the process replaces the tendon in the pitching arm with another tendon from a different part of the body. the doctor died yesterday at the age of 88.

but i'm joined by tommy john. tommy, you blew out your pitching arm in 1974. at the time, what was the prognosis you got about whether you would ever pitch in the majors again? >> well, dr. job told me, he said you really don't need the surgery, but i can 100% guaranty if you do not have it, you'll never pitch major league baseball again. i said okay, if i have the surgery, what are my chances? he said you probably won't pitch again. i said give me numbers. he said 2%, 3%. i know 2% out of 100 is much better than 0 out of 100. so i said let's get it done now. here is the reason why dr. job was a genius. he said no, tommy, we can't do the surgery until these six doctors and their schedules line up to where we can be in the operating room together.

why? he said, because i don't know what i'm doing and i need as many skilled surgeons as i can guiding my hands. the minute he said that, i said, you're my doctor, let's go for it. >> we know he's a career saver as a doctor. but what kind of man was he? >> the most humble man i've ever -- he has every night to stand back and thump his chest and say i did tommy john's surgery. he never used the word i. instead of having a funeral, he wants to have a celebration of life at dodger stadium. what we're going to try to do is try to get as many tommy john recipients as we can, have a picture taken and that's a tribute to dr. jobe. >> how valuable were these

surgical procedures in changing the sport of baseball? >> three people, in my opinion, altered the face of baseball. jackie robinson breaking the color barrier. marvin miller, breaking the reserve clause and getting free agency for the players, and frank jobe. those three guys changed the face of baseball forever. >> thank you, tommy. we really appreciate you being here with us. coming up after the break, we'll have the latest on the oscar pistorius trial. arguably south africa's most fay mouls athlete, now on tribal for murder. stick around. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day

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welcome back to "unguarded." those of you watching cnn earlier tonight saw our special on oscar pistorius, who earned fame competing alongside able

bodied runners at the london olympics. with pistorius on trial for murder, we wanted to get a broader perspective. let's bring in garrett davis. garrett, you have known and covered oscar since he was 17 years old, that's 10 years. what has it been like for you to just watch him on trial for murder? >> extraordinary shock. you've got to remember that i covered this, what was a boy at the age of 17 at the athens paralympic games, who had extraordinarily come into the world without the shin bones in his legs and he's been this fairy tale story of a boy who felt he could run fast. and i've seen him grow into a man and fight the courts of arbitration in sports for the right to run against the able bodied in the olympics, who had grown and become a global figure, the poster boy for the

paralympic movement. obviously then, plunged into what is now a horror story, having shot and killed his girlfriend. when you know someone in that situation, i have dealt with him dozens of times, and you begin to wonder if you really knew the person or not. >> let's talk about this fall from grace. can you put into perspective what you would compare it to? we've seen o.j. simpson, we've seen lance armstrong. is that on this level? >> it's definitely on this level. if you know south africa, they hero worship their sports stars and he was one of the iconic sports stars in south africa. this is a massive trial, and no jury and cameras in there. it's like the world is the jury in this case. >> did you see any signs of anything like this coming, anything in his temperament? >> i always found him honest, humble, and what i fought was

open. when he was trying to qualify for the 2008 olympic games, i sat in his hotel room with a previous girlfriend on his hotel bed chatting to her, while he went into the bathroom to change into his evening legs for us to go out for dinner. >> he's had some issues with guns before, is that correct? >> yeah, he has. i mean, he was stopped once in an airport where there was some kind of gunshot residue on his clothes. there is a slight pleasure he takes from this whole process of being arrested and being checked. it was just a mistake. he had been at a range and shooting and some of the residue had gotten on to his clothes and it was picked up by the airport kind of testing indicators if you like. >> do you have any sense how this will play out, what will happen here? >> you'll know yourself over a period of time. we lionized him because of this

extraordinary story. but he'll always be tainted as the fastest man on no legs who killed his girlfriend, no matter how the trial turns out. >> a stunning turn of events for people watching him for years. thank you, garrett. coming up after this break, we are going to switch gears and introduce you do a young woman who is defying expectations both on the wrestling mat and off of it. >> they'll see me with bloody noses and they'll then see me on facebook and say, are you sure this is the right person? i can download anything i want. [ girl ] seriously? that's a lot of music. seriously. that's insane. and it's 15 bucks a month for the family. seriously? that's a lot of gold rope. seriously, that's a signature look. you don't have a signature look, honey.

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welcome back to "unguarded." i'm rachel nichols. these days it's not unheard of for school-age girls to compete alongside boys in traditionally male sports. but competing is one thing.

cop sis tently beating the boys is another story. this is a story of julia ernst, fresh off her third championship. >> on the mat, the wrestler is fast, fierce and female. it is a rare sight, even now in this overwhelmingly male sport. but julia efrgs rnst is a rare soul. a young woman beating the boys at their own game. >> nice, julia. >> how did you start wrestling? >> i started wrestling that i have a great older brother that beat up on me, and i decided that i needed to learn how to defend myself. >> one of three females on the wrestling team, by freshman year the others quit and julia stood alone. >> despite the fact that i have supportive coaches and teammates, it's still an interesting feeling to walk into a room and be the only person of

your type. >> so when you went to have matches with other schools, you encountered that quite often. >> definitely. you're in the locker room, you can't josh around with the boys, you can't talk about whatever. >> yet encouraged by her parents who are in to martial arts, she started winning over and over again, sparking a range of reactions. some boys would outright refuse to wrestle hers. others -- >> if they're coming into this match with a sense of pride and superiority, that they are male, therefore they are going to win the match, if i do end up beating them, then those are the kids that will cry in the corner or be really ashamed or have parents that come and yell at them. >> tell me something that people find surprising about you. >> that i am feminine. i'll go to wrestling camp with boys and i'm wearing my head cap

and have a bloody nose. then later on they'll find me on facebook and they won't believe that it's me. >> that's because away from the gym, she can be all smiles and charm. but on the mat, she's all business. just ask her coach. >> she's one of the hardest working wrestlers i've ever met. the hardest working person i've ever met, whether it's school work, athletics. she just goes as hard as she can on everything. >> that wins tournaments and fans. with the season winding down, julia, a team captain, faced one match to become the winningness wrestler in her school's history. >> everybody was on their feet, shouting and cheering, julia, julia. and when she won, everybody jumped up and down, women were literally crying to see this victory. she represents for all these women, and i've had many conversations with women at

these matches, julia is my hero. she's doing -- she's trail blazing for women. >> julia believes her little brother may soon enough eclipse her record. but for now, she rapes supreme, 26 losses, 107 wins. all against men. when you hear your coach talk about your record at your school, what do you think? >> i am happy. i'm very happy. i get a little bit of giddy and do a happy dance maybe. >> her grades are impressive, too. so next fall, she's off to harvard with hopes of wrestling at the club level. where she knows boys will still be boys and she's convinced she'll still with the girl who can beat them. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> love the idea of that happy dance. julia, you deserve it. all right, that's going to be it for us tonight. follow on twitter, like us on

facebook or visit us on the web at cnn.com/unguarded. and find us right back here next friday night on "unguarded" where the end of the game is just the start of the story. good night. 11:00 p.m. eastern time, i'm susan hendriks in atlanta, bringing you the latest on the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight mh370. the airline briefing reporters saying the flight included four americans, three adults and one infant. chinese nationals make up the majority of the 239 passengers and crew members on board the boeing 777. now, the plane simply vanished. it disappeared about two hours into a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. china's state run news agency is saying radar lost contact in