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cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our first guest this evening has described himself as the national basketball association's, he won four mba championships and is also an olympic gold medalist. please welcome to the show, shaquille o'neal! ♪ the love shack is a little old place where we can get together ♪ ♪ love shack baby love shack baby ♪ love shack baby, love shack ♪ ♪ love shack baby, love shack love shack ♪ baby, love >> jimmy: god. [ cheers and applause ] see, that's why we don't go out dancing more. >> i know, right. >> jimmy: that happens. it's embarrassing at a club when you do that to me. >> how are you? >> jimmy: shaquille o'neal, we love you so much. thank you for coming on the show. gosh, i love ya. i've known you for a long time. [ cheers and applause ] i'm a giant fan of yours. when i first met you on "saturday night live" -- you hosted "saturday night live." did you host or did you just cameo? >> no, i hosted. >> jimmy: you hosted. i remember it because i remember the two -- we weren't in that many sketches together. >> no. >> jimmy: but you, gosh, you killed it with tracy morgan and will fe

hbo sports commentator bryant gumbel likened national basketball association commissioner david sternd of modern plantation overseers as if they were boys. it's worth noting n.b.a. is the highest paid and professional team sports with average salaries of almost $5 million. >>> finally, alex baldwin went to visit occupy wall street offering advice but there was a problem. >> you can book any airline, anytime. i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? >> some are calling him a hypocrite being the face of capital one, america's seventh largest bank. baldwin says he donates his ads to charity but it didn't stop some of the protesters who called him a limousine liberal. top story, bottom of the hour, long-time libyan dictator muammar gaddafi is dead. national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports on how it happened and what it means. a u.s. predator drone fired a missile at a convoy as it left sirte. muammar gaddafi was presumed to be in the convoy according to a senior french official. french war plane also fired munitions. gaddafi escaped from the vehicle and wa

and national basketball association coaches don't wear shorts and gym shoes.ball managers have worn baseball uniforms just like their players. so i thought i would find out. and i spoke with a fella named john thorn, the official historian of major league baseball. and he said that back in the very early days of baseball, the manager was a guy who took care of paying the bills and making the train schedules, but he made no decisions on the field. the person who made the decisions on the field was called the captain. and he was a player. in uniform. so when the 20th century rolled around, baseball has been here a long time, and the managers became the guys in the dugouts who in the most part were no longer players, they just kept wearing the uniforms. >> are sure it's not because they're going through a mid life crisis and they just want to look studly? >> that's one of the things that mr. thorn told me. he said no matter how old you get, inside you still think you're a baseball player. but there's nothing -- there is nothing in the rule book of major league ba

also important to this topic, the director of the national basketball concussion program and console for the national hockey league players association. clearly there is an issue that has been gaining significant public and government interest of the past several years. the majority has been focused on athletes already in the spotlight, the wants to play professional contact sports. while these are experienced the greatest doses over their lifetimes, they represent a small fraction of the population at risk of being injured, which is why i am encouraged today's hearing is focusing on protective equipment being used by all athletes regardless of level of play, age, or gender. a common misconception that concussion is a problem seen only in males. concussions occur and females as well with some data suggesting the incidence is actually higher in females compared to males playing similar sports. an injury that occurs at every age and level of play. over the three and a half million concussions occur each year, and the majority occur in our youth. there is great uncertainty and great concern regarding the notion a possible long-term effe