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i will talk with laila ali, daughter of the world champion and civil right icon muhammad ali. and we have the latest on the search for flight 370. your tweets about the plane and donald sterling pouring in by the minute and my experts are standing by to answer them for you. forcing donald sterling to sell the clippers would be a wrong to his wrong. booting him out is okay. i want to begin with the fallout from donald sterling's racist rant. if you ask the american public, the people, it's not on easy decision. 47% of the public supports a forced sale of the team, while 50% are against it. could donald sterling hold on to his team? joining me is laila ali, the daughter of muhammad ali, one of the greatest athletes of all time and a civil rights icon. thank you for being with us. your dad is known as both a sports and civil rights icon. i have been wondering what he thinks about the story. have you had a chance to speak to him about donald sterling? >> hi, don. thanks for having me on. yes, i have been able to get my father's perspective on this. and you know, he feels that if h

when asked why, he said did you ever hear muhammad ali curse? would you curse in front of your kids or to your mother? he said women deserve better treatment especially. he went on to say, quote, we should treat all people like royalty. the other prince in the news is william spotted in coach on an american airlines flight from memphis to dallas to make a connection home to london heathrow. he has to travel with security detail, but still there he was. future king of england right there in the bulk head window seat. >>> there is a new town library in stanton, iowa. it's not far from the old one, but there was the matter of moving 4,000 books. while the people of stanton, iowa, have never met a problem that can't be solved by the people of stanton, iowa, they formed a human chain. they moved all the books in a little over 90 minutes. they learned a life lesson about neighbors and volunteerism. that is how it's done in stanton. >>> when we come back tonight, a young man with a big idea and how so many are following his lead. >>> finally tonight, o

i do it boxing champion jamie evans has died aged seventy four born in louisville this entices muhammad ali and is seen here in the red had gone for fifty three times as a professional in creating and using bounce against on a golden gloves champion as an homage to an extent pro in nineteen sixty one on the minister's career peaked when he won the wba world heavyweight title in nineteen sixty eight against jerry quarry. if anyone is against floyd past and lost it when j phrase is still three full rounds in a heavyweight title unification fight. on a rather unusual festival has been taking place in china the china child one festival takes place them on the day before leaving the chinese calendar. once upon a time that the ritual for fishing communities the right to safety from pirate attacks on to a drive away evil spirits these days it's more of a cultural checkpoints the centerpiece of the celebrations is the largest not for the young men from the fifty foot tower chinese buns. the higher the turnout was a surprise to clean the whole bit. some strenuous activity that the right time for the

did you ever hear muhammad ali curse, would you curse in front of your kids, to your brother, we shouldn'tse at them, we need to treat all people and all people like royalty. andrea, you are laughing? >> greg is making a funny face. >>> prince had some pretty awful lyrics. >>> it's a little late in the game. he wrote music. i love him. it's a little disenginious now that's he's made all his money for his songs. >> richard pryor, he used to curse, and then he said he was going to stop. look how richard pryor became famous for using profane language. >> my 15-year-old son, every other word in hip-hop music is a curse word. even if you took the n word out, you know, you download these songs with explicit contents or clean contents and you look at how many down loads, the explicit is 80 times what the clean ones are. >> suburban kids, this is my opportunity to rebell. it's damaging. >> i was remembering how my previous dog, henry, he hated any curse words. you couldn't curse in front of him. he would get so upset. i tried to watch it. only if he was really in trouble. >> what happens if i curs

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i will talk with laila ali, daughter of the world champion and civil right icon muhammad ali. for flight 370. your tweets about the plane and donald sterling pouring in by the minute and my experts are standing by to answer them for you. forcing donald sterling to sell the clippers would be a wrong to his wrong.

he's outspoken, he's from the same area muhammad ali is from.has the same personality. >> that's okay. that's a defense. >> i will say he's creating interest with his words but i think it's over the line. i don't think you insult a whole city about weight or height or anything like that but him not backing off just goes to show you he's saved all his money. can you imagine employing a guy that says turn off your damn tv? can you imagine that? i think he's totally overthe line. he's kidding around but somebody is paying the price for that. he's telling millions of people when you go to san antonio, expect to see fat people. >> you think he should be forced to apologize? >> i don't think you want to force the guy to do anything but eat. maybe he's hungry. double up, butter cup. next time get a double plate, take the edge off your hunger so you're not mean to the audience. >> i think he sounds funny. i think he's a funny guy. >> what if he lives in san antonio? >> he's living large. he talks loud. >> literally. >> this is who he is. he's a personal

. >> once reported that muhammad ali refrained from sex for six weeks leading up to a major fight.ome athletes see some truth. >> i'm not a male athlete and i will leave it to professionals to make that decision and leave it to bob because he seems like he is a professional. >> i had professional athletes tell me they do this, they do it for couple reasons. one, it has to do with disaction women can put in their lives. we don't want to be thinking about relationships. you're not talking about relationships. >> no. put it this way, ver short-term relationships. >> right. but the other issue is physicality of it. like working out before the workout. that is how athletes put it to me before. so you save everything you've got for the upcoming battle, for the upcoming game. >> kirsten, "national geographic" dud a study on this and turned out there was no diminished effect on athlete prior to an event. >> this sounds like superstition, like "bull durham.." maybe if i wear the lucky socks i win the game. what is up with the beef? what does beef do? >> more than that what is acrobat i can

russell and kareem abdul-jabbar and jim brown and a host of other athletes stood up in defense of muhammad alintioned that jim rome from the nba was talking to roger mason about that with lebron. let's take a listen. >> lebron, you think he would not play if sterling were still in there when the season started? >> i was just in the locker room three, four days ago. lebron and i talked about it. he ain't playing if sterling is still an owner. >> this goes to the idea that this thing is sticking. >> yes. >> this is not one of those times where you have a huge firestorm and you have announcements and you have the ban, and then boy, it takes years to really figure it out because it seems that people are willing to use their leverage. >> they certainly are. again, this is a great historical precedent because what he also spoke to is the mentality and the culture that exists in professional sports in this country where you have owners and you have players. and he spoke about these being his players and how he provides for them. and even though the majority of these players are people of color and ar

george foreman, muhammad ali, sugar ray leonard he figured early he had to control. >>> does he get thathe wins or loses, and depending on pay per view. something about the boxing gloves. the more people who buy the fight, watch it on closed circuit the more money he will make. >> i want to ask about his personal life. he's been involved in several domestic violence cases and served jailtime. how has none of that affected his empire? >> it's affected him in some ways but he's revillient and addressed things straight up. instances with women involved with, he tells it the way it is. he's straight out there and that's reflected and the fans really like that. >> he said earlier this week that he's interested in buying the clippers. >> everybody'sest tred in buying the clippers. >> right. is that a possibility, do you think? >> it's interesting. i think, you know when you're an individual athlete you have control over everything. when you go to a team sport, there is revenue sharing. you don't have as much control. could floyd mayweather be part of a conglomerate that puts something together

i mean, billy crystal, i mean, he becomes muhammad ali. custom listening so carefully, you see? but the cadences and the rhyth rhythms. >> i love the southern black that this preacher's melody. i do love it. and i grew up on king james version of the bible. so when the black preachers say, now brothers and sisters -- [laughter] as the cockney said in london, it makes me, all over courier. [laughter] this is the first book, the new book, "a song flung up to heaven," that you wrote without having your brother their to read and talk to you about. what was it that he brought to the reading experience that was so valuable for you? >> well, my brother bailey was the only genius my family -- by family came closer to making a genius than they may bailey. and i have a sister friend here who would back me up on it. i think well and i worked very hard, but bailey, at 16, i was 14, he introduced me to thomas wolfe, kenneth paxson, the poet. jonathan west -- what's his -- not jonathan swift. but he introduced me to modern writers, nathaniel west. philip wylie. at 16. we've just come from ark

he's the same pele who criticized muhammad ali for refusing to fight in vietnam. if michael jordan is a big deal, pele is a global phenomenon. you think the nba playoffs draw a significant audience? the world cup is the sporting event that makes entire countries come to a halt during its month-plus run. and it's returning to brazil for the first time since 1950. and here is pele, another infamously nonpolitical athletic superstar who chose this week to criticize his own country's preparation for the world cup saying, it's clear that politically speaking the money spent to build the stadiums was a lot. and in some cases was more than it should have been. some of this money could have been invested in schools, in hospitals. brazil needs it. that's clear. on that point, i agree with the protests. a bit like jordan's comments on sterling, the fact that pele was moved to say something speaks volumes about the severity of what is going on in brazil right now. so what is going on in brazil right now? ahead of the world cup, which is set to begin on june 12th, protesters

in the june issue of "essence" magazine, prince says "did you ever hear muhammad ali curse?ng to some of his female collaborators, he adds "they're all my sisters, we shouldn't curse at them. we need to treat all of them and all people like royalty." tamron hall, you are a prince expert. prince hasn't used profanity in some time. right? >> in years, in years. but he's featured in "essence" because of the major anniversary of "purple rain," 25 years. he's performing at the essence festival this summer. but he hasn't used curse words, and some songs he doesn't perform. i love the explanation. >> i do, too. >> i think it's fantastic. >> it's the explanation that's new, not what he's doing. >> think about all the popular songs. i love jason derulo but that "talk dirty," some of these lyrics really -- willie's boy george in the back seat the other day rapping and tune and willie has to turn it down. >> there's a lot of diving for the dial. >> and that's on the radio. that's not on if cd. >> you have to do a lot of explaining to the kids. this is not appropriate. >>> now to the se