i thought i would be arthur ash, one -- i would be arthur ash one day. i started taking recreational tennis lessons, started playing and getting better, and so was arthur ash, who trained five blocks down the street from where i grew up. i played in high school. but then football got in the way. so i played basketball, tennis, and football, and football was the thing that paid the bills. i got a scholarship to play at the university of richmond. when they said hey, you can come for free and play here, i think my parents liked that a little more. i was a wide receiver at the university of richmond. my freshman year, we were 3-8, but we got better, 8-5, and made the playoffs. the scouts started looking because i had really good stats and was transforming this steam into a winning team. so i got drafted to play with the detroit lions, 11th round in the 1986 college draft. i'm this kid who never imagined playing football in college, because i was a wide receiver on a running team in high school. that was not something i aspired to, being an nfl football play

it could be an amazing spectacle that tennis goes ahead with no one in the stadium, i can't see arthur ashe be iconic as well i think and how good that would look in the years to come. the boss of silverstone says he's confident formula 1's british grand prix will go ahead injuly despite the uk government's new quarantine rules for international travellers. stuart pringle says he's hopeful some sporting events will be exempt and although the lockdown has been hard for the circuit and their supply chain, he believes they will recover. we are a resilient team. i've got some incredible colleagues working incredibly hard to make sure that we can plot a chart out of this. there is a huge groundswell of support in the united kingdom for motor racing. silverstone hosted the first ever formula 1 world championship 70 years ago, and i have every confidence that we will continue into the future. but we've been on a slow road to rebuild ourfortunes and having climbed a very long lap, it feels like we are going down a very, very long snake which is pretty disheartening. but i have every confidence that

i remember well when the statue of arthur ashe went up and the controversy over was it as good thing, bad thing, artistic, political, historical? i think the best discussion of that was done by the late absolutely great tony horowicz in his book "con fed rats federe attic." we have a new statue, an ee equestrian statue with an african-american mounted and with beautiful precision going up in that city. in our town we have a statue in the center of travis park. it was the local that wanted to get this common soldier put up. it was on such a high plan when i came here i wasn't sure what was on top of it. but it what something that people felt honored the confederate pass, honored white supremacy value. the question of the disposition of the statue, when it was taken down, how it was taken down, where the statue is. we also have other great topics to debate like there is a little building downtown called the alamo which is a lot of my colleagues work on and we are interested in having new interpretations, richer interpretations of these historical legacies. here in texas i'm learning mor

i wanted to be arthur ashe. he trained five blocks down the street.is athleticism. it was not until i got to nasa working as an astronaut at langley one of my friends said you would be a great astronaut. another friend of mine got in and i said if he can get in, i can become one. i applied and got in to the 1998 class. i think about this storied padsi, had 39 -- legacy, 39a. it is an amazing time to see this new era with lauren, with your spacex crew dragon about to take off. lauren: i never heard that story. [laughter] it is so cool that you have a lot of these kids who are watching today who have never seen a flight, human spaceflight ksc before.rom i grew up in the shuttle era and in los angeles. i remember sometimes when the shuttle would land at edwards air force base, you would hear the double sonic boom. we all knew that was the space shuttle. it was a thing. it did make me sad there is like an entire generation of kids who did not grow up with that experience. i am proud today hopefully we get to provide that for kids and have more and more of

arthur gail and said, and what to do something to carry forward what tony cared so passionately about. [pause for clip] we think about his elite group of american authors who aspire to the kind of Ãshewould see in tony's work. >> then is what we called history track which is named for the late Ãnone of this would be possible without the support of family. >> as we talked about what narrative nonfiction met to tony, there emerged the idea of not just this one award but a work of words. >> it really allowed me to delving more deeply to take more time also give me this institution help in legitimacy especially for first-time author gave me confidence. >> the prize was so meaningful to me because this kind of work, narrative nonfiction both serious and incredibly entertaining, is exactly what i wanted to do when i grew up. >> what tony lucas did in his work in many of our winners do in their work as they blend storytelling with a social conscience. >> an idea was to hold tony and his work up for standardbearers in his authors and if you look at the two decades now of prizewinners i think you can say the award has really done that it's a pantheon of excellence. . >> welcome back everybod