we have done the same thing with another franchise called in the moment and taken lindsay vonn, amareudemire and we have a production on dwight howard. those investments and content are really a major part of reaching that younger audience. epix today is reached on over 400 devices like the gs 4, ps3, ps4, that younger audience really wants to engage. review sports and telling those shows as a way to -- for that younger audience, we know that sports is a passion. we really want to be able to activate that passion group. >> you launched in 2009. your five coming up. what would you like to be doing as a sports part of your network grows? >> we continue to look at live sports and constantly look and entertain what might happen in the boxing or mma world if we see a good opportunity. i think we feel really good about expanding our sports telling franchise. our first hard-hitting doc was schools and the price of college sports which deals with the ncaa on football and basketball and are these kids really being appropriately rewarded? we want to take on an issue like that whereas other netw

mike taibbi has the latest. >> reporter: olympic champ lindsay vonn is back in colorado this morninger another setback on her path to sochi. deep into a downhill run saturday, the 29-year-old raised her left leg to hold her balance when her surgically repaired left knee buckled. her her boyfriend tiger woods looking on, she was in obvious pain. >> i have no acl. yes, i guess i'm suffering a little bit. >> no acl, not just a partial tear as had been reported ten months ago in austria. the acl, anterior cruciate ligament is one of the four main cables to stabilize the knee, especially traveling down icy slopes at world class speed. >> you can imagine what she's going through, not just the physical pain, but the psychological impact of having a knee that may at some point at 75 miles an hour give out on you. very vonn says she and woods have talked about how champions play through pain. he himself last tasted glory when he won the 2008 u.s. open on a broken leg, something reported afterwards saying you may have just seen the best of me. though vonn has made progress on her march towards

lindsay vonn's olympic dreams still alive. still dealing with knee issues.er setback in france. she lost her balance, missed a gate during the weekend race. she said the same knee she had surgically repaired completely gave out. >> the she was in pain obviously afterwards. and as you just saw there, tiger woods was on hand. first time he's been there to watch his now girlfriend compete. >> two women who spent nearly two years in a russian prison being critical of president vladimir putin, today they are free. they're the members of the punk rock bad pussy riot whose political expression got them in hot water. [ speaking foreign language ] >> that is the demonstration that they did inside what is a revered cathedral in moscow, can offended a lot of people. they were arrested and found guilty of holliganism and two band members received two-year sentences. diana magnay is in siberia right now, the police where one of those women walked out. tell us about this whole amnesty thing, part of why they were released and what they have said since they got out. they'r

. >>> lindsay vonn is still hoping to make it to the olympics in february.r: the temperature is 35 degrees below zero. today, lindsay vonn is scheduled to ski in her second post-injury race after marking her return with race number one. >> now, the moment everyone is waiting for. >> reporter: the bitter cold temps delayed her race for an hour. that was nothing for her, who had been waiting for nearly a year for this moment. typically fearless, vonn admitted a couple nerves accompanied her down the hill. >> i am just happy to be back. i didn't ski as confident as i normally do. >> reporter: a high-speed crash ten months ago tore two ligaments in her right knee and broke her leg forcing her to undergo major surgery. a partial ligament tear while practicing last month raised fears, would she be ready for sochi? a request he she couldn't answer with absolute certainty last week during an interview with matt lauer on "today." >> i just have to kind of take it day by day right now. i still have time before sochi. >> reporter: she offered up a stronger answer frida

. >>> olympic gold medalist lindsay vonn returning to the sloping for a third day in a row.he schedule has her peaking just before the sochi olympics. she placed 11 during saturday's downhill race. it was an improvement from friday. >>> remember we told you yesterday about 23-year-old general far grat from boston, doesn't speak a leak of arabic, but entered the "arabs got talent" and was one of three finalists. she didn't win. she placed third. she considers the experience a success. i'm sure you're wondering who won, wait for it. it was a syrian dance troop. >> which one? >> sima. >> no, no. it wasn't the other one. >>> what do you call someone who makes the seemingly impossible possible? not our hair and makeup team with me every morning. what? the auburn football team. you remember last weekend auburn, impressing every fan and non-fan out there in a stunning iron bowl win over alabama. the team won saturday against missouri in the sec championship. a record 304 yards on 46 carries. final score 59-42. next up for the very lucky auburn, playing the lottery, finding world pe

. >>> lindsay vonn lost her balance, pulledmpeting on the w downhill course in france. ive surgery on february and reinjured it in november. she is getting ready hopefully, for the games in sochi. >>> a safety check completed of every one of london's westin theaterses. the inspectors went over the theaterses after the ceiling collapsed at the 100-year-old apollo. a chunk of the ceiling and chunk of the chandelier came down on thursday in the middle of the audience watching a performance. seven people were injured. >>> you and i notice well, natalie. heck has no fury like a hockey woman. u.s. and canada the women's team not so neighborly on the ice. the two teams dropped the gloves and went at it at the end of a game on friday in north dakota. these girls are fighting. the last match happened in october and now two matches together before the olympics. >> that is not good. full-on fight there! >> they did. the u.s. went on to win but they are going to meet up again -- i'm going to say both since we are here. if i was up here, i would say let's not get into details. >> it

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