well, turner sports sideline reporter craig sager is battling leukemia.ger at nba and mlb game, rocking his famous crazy suits. well, true to style, sager announced his illness with humor saying, quote, from the sidelines to being sidelines. 40 veins and 40 electrolytes. here's what happened when sager's son interviewed popp. >> he said son, you're on your own. anything you have to say? >> you did a great job, but i would rather have your dad standing here. you're great, we miss you. you've been an important part of this for a long time. we want your fanny back on the court. i promise i'll be nice. get back here. >> craig, if your cnn family, our thoughts are with you. i'm brian that keiler. "early start" begins at 4:00 >>> criminal and unforgivable. the president of south korea blasts the crew of a sunken ferry as hopes fade of finding more survivors. >>> pro russian militants appeal to moscow after a checkpoint shootout. >> the locals we've spoken to tell us because of this, they will not be persuaded to give up their weapons. >>> a city united. boston

well, turner sports sideline reporter craig sager is battling leukemia.nize sager at nba and mlb game, rocking his famous crazy suits. well, true to style, sager announced his illness with humor saying, quote, from the sidelines to being sidelines. 40 veins and 40 elect rrolytes. here's what happened when sager's son interviewed popp. >> he said son, you're on your own. anything you have to say? >> you did a great job, but i would rather have your dad standing here. you're great, we miss you. you've been an important part of this for a long time. we want your fanny back on the court. i promise i'll be nice. get back here. >> craig, if your cnn family, our thoughts are with you. i'm brian that >>> one of our roles here has always been to take away excess money from people who don't know what to do with it, who can't think of a better idea about how to spend their money. in the old days the mechanism for doing that was you'd throw it on a table. put that into the context of throwing away a bottle of seven-up in a club. we're slightly more honest about it. >

they tack on another one. 6th inning, carl sager might of had a double. going 6 ins allowed. 1 earned run, struck out 3. avoided injury with the all pyre. johnson, lost on monday night, he blew a save on wednesday but he was strong today. struck out 2 had in the 9th to get the first save of the season. he turns the boos into cheers and the a's beat the m's 6-3. >> a couple of strikeouts. >> that was a shame the way they did them the first couple of nights. we all know that everyone knows obviously, we understand but he is our closer. the guy gives up a couple of hits and crowds out there booing, that was -- i was disaa pointed in our fans. >> i thought they were very supportive. you know, you get one here and there. overall, i have been blown away with their reaction. their positiveness, positivity, that is a better word. [ laughter ] and i just think, you know, we are down there sitting with them. very supportive group and i appreciate that. >> he is a class act that guy. president bush taking in the final round of the open. matt jones, double break putt