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MLB False Identities
Outside the Lines (Sunday, 9 a.m. ET, ESPN)
ESPN Deportes SportsCenter (Sunday, 11 p.m.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISVIz0kQtE

Spring training is underway, but two MLB pitchers remain in their home country — the Dominican Republic — unable to return to the U.S. after being arrested for falsifying identification papers. For the first time on American television, Juan Carlos Oviedo (a.k.a., Leo Nuñez) and Roberto Hernandez (a.k.a., Fausto Carmona) share their stories. Pedro Gomez reports.

“I felt a lot of pressure every time I’d move up from division to division, because I knew that each time, my name was growing bigger. I knew that at some point they would find out about me and I felt a lot of pressure.” – Roberto Hernandez, on fearing he’d be discovered

“The consequences of visa fraud are quite serious and can include ineligibility for life to travel to the United States. This is why the Embassy works very closely with Major League Baseball to combat age and identity fraud.  –Statement from U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo

“If they have that same problem, let them step forward, stand up for what they did, you know? So that they can try to straighten things up with the name that God gave them.”  — Juan Oviedo, on what he’d tell other young players considering changing identities

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“ZACHING”
College Gameday (Saturday, noon, ESPN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISP94AZsxkU

Zachary Lederer never expected to be a trend-setter, especially after having cancer surgery. As the 18-year old manager for the Maryland men’s basketball team awoke in the hospital following surgery to remove a cancerous brain tumor, he asked his father to take a picture of him. Lying in bed and still groggy from the anesthesia, Lederer raised his arms and flexed his biceps for the camera. The picture hit Facebook, and “Zaching” was born. Since that photo was taken, hundreds of people have taken their own “Zaching” pictures to show their support of Lederer, who is staging his second battle against brain cancer. Tom Rinaldi examines how a single photo has inspired so many.

“At that time, my mindset behind making that pose was ‘in case you were worrying that Zachary Lederer was going to be OK after surgery.’ In my drugged up mind I’m thinking, ‘You’re going to think I’m looking pretty good.’ I’m thinking, ‘You’re going to see me making muscles and you’re going to say ‘You know that Zachary Lederer? He’s going to be OK.’ So that was my mindset at the time.” — Zachary Lederer

“I don’t know what it is about it — endorphins get going or what it is — but it does make you feel good. And, it just symbolizes hope and courage to me, and not just for Zach, for anyone going through a debilitating illness right now.” — Christine Lederer, Zach’s mother, on “Zaching”

How March Madness Comes Together
ESPN.com

Shaun Assael writes:

“On Wednesday afternoon (March 7), nine men and one woman will take the elevator of the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis to a 15th-floor conference room to make some of the most intense decisions in sports. They are the members of the men’s NCAA tournament selection committee, and between then and Sunday they’ll be eating a lot of hotel food, sweating bunches of bullets, and wondering at some point why they don’t do things like the BCS and hand their jobs to inscrutable pollsters and computers.”