let's bring in dave zyron, author of brazil's dance with the devil the olympics and fight for democracylet's start with landon donovan, during our conversation i brought up germany and the qualifying, and he said the performance. do you buy it? >> i don't buy it because gergen klinsman is siedged up through 2018 world cup. that gives him the security that he could make an unpopular decision like this and he has long term, he knows the united states is not going ocompete for the world cup, not even competition for the semi finals but by 2018 he sees landon don fan at age 32 being a blocked to the team's development. i feel otherwise, statement at the same time klinsman's decision is understandable and in a way it's also rational. >> i mentioned an espn sports poll that finds major league soccer marches major league baseball now. is this just a bump for world cup fever? >> there's always that bump for world cup fever. there's an old expression, soccer in present and in the future will always be the sport of the future in the united states. you can see that here certainly that you always g

let's bring in dave zyron, let's bring in dave zyron, author of brazil's dance with author of brazil'sce with the the devil the olympics and fight devil the olympics and fight for democracy. for democracy. let's start with landon donovan, let's start with landon donovan, during our conversation i during our conversation i brought up germany and the brought up germany and the qualifying, and he said the qualifying, and he said the performance. performance. do you buy it? do you buy it? >> i don't >> i don't buy it because buy it because gergen gergen klinsman is siedged up through klinsman is siedged up through 2018 world 2018 world cup. cup. that gives him the security that that gives him the security that he could make an unpopular he could make an unpopular decision like this and he has decision like this and he has long term, he knows the united long term, he knows the united states is not going ocompete for states is not going ocompete for the world cup, not even the world cup, not even competition for the semi finals competition for the semi finals but by 2018 he sees landon don b

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. >> joining me from silver spring maryland, dave zyron. author of the upcoming are book, brazil's dance with the devil, the world cup and the dance for democracy. his game over was just nominated for an award for sports writing. let's talk about michael sam. when 21 nfl scouts were asked about drafting him, they said they would not use a draft pick on him. what's going to happen? >> it's going to be suspenseful. going from the southeastern conference to the nfl is a demotion. but michael sam is a a 'tweener. not quite fast enough to be an offensive linebacker. a lot of teams quite frankly worried about the public relation he debacle if michael sames does not get drafted at all. >> he's too short and too slow to be a linebacker, not a defensive end, he was the sec player of the year. how do you square all of that? >> it's going to be tough. players like michael sam the way they grade out, usually go in the fifth, sixth or seventh rounds. there's no shame in that. a lot of good players, richard sherman, was drafted in those later rounds. but

. >> and dave zyron of the sports nation, and always good to see you, but at the end of the interview, i thought that he did more damage than the original taped conversation. >> absolute ly. that was anti-public relations, because any one of us if we were caught saying things at our worst moment who would want those words throughout in the public sphere, and many people could relate to that and perhaps not the racism, but some of of the crude language, but then when you think of him actually sitting down with the plan doing public relations, with anderson cooper, and then out of the mouth comes that just free throwing lava of bile, and absolutely more harm to himself last night. and sorry, but i have to say to shelly sterling, that is not dementia, but it is donald sterling being who we thought he was and who he has always been over the course of the business career as a slumlord in the graeat er los angeles area over the course of decades. >> i follow you on twitter and i enjoy the tweets a yound, you h tweeted about in and you said shouldn't this horrific interview be evident of how

bureau, dave zyron, author of the new book "brazil's dance with the devil." and the fight for democracy. thank you all for joining us for this conversation. dave, let me start with you. how do you solve a problem like donald sterling? >> donald sterling is not going to make it easy for the nba. . beware. donald sterling does not have a case against the nba, because at the end of the day he is a franchisee. it would be the equivalent if i opened a quiznos and served rat meat and mexi melts. they wouldn't keep me open very long. and donald sterling has been the longest tenured owner in the nba. he knows where all the bodies are buried. and if this goes to open court, it could prove an absolute nightmare for the nba. >> does he have a case here to make about due process? that the league in some way acts so quickly that they undermined themselveses? >> not particularly. not based on the agreement he signed with them. f the leeague has the right to protect themselves against financial foreclosure. . to disenfranchise donald sterling, and it seems that's what they i