As the 32 NFL teams prepare to open training camp later this month, it's inevitable that more eyes and attention will be trained on the Dallas Cowboys' training site in Oxnard, CA than anywhere else. And it is all because of one game-breaking, news-making wideout named Terrell Owens. The most visible and probably most criticized player in the league today, Owens, 32, was dropped last season by the Philadelphia Eagles after repeated clashes with the front office and coaching staff. Now he claims to be re-energized as a member of their arch-rivals, the Dallas Cowboys. Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel goes one-on-one with the outspoken superstar, who is gearing up for still another new beginning.
Real Sports profiles James Hogue, one of the most successful imposters of modern times. A nondescript high-school runner in the 1970s, who later ran track at the University of Wyoming, Hogue subsequently transformed himself into a series of characters, fooling academic administrators, friends, coaches and teammates. Equipped with charm and intelligence, he began his athletic deception at Palo Alto High School in northern California in 1987, stealing the identity of a child who had died at age two and distinguishing himself as a track star. In 1992, Hogue was admitted to Princeton, where he posed as Alexi Indris Santana, supposedly a home- schooled student from the Mojave desert; his fake identity was blown by a former Palo Alto classmate. In Colorado, Hogue honed his burglary skills, allegedly stealing 5,000 items before the police nabbed him. Bernard Goldberg in collaboration with Sports Illustrated picks up Hogue's trail and tries to make sense of Hogue's incredible run from justice and the truth. Now 46, Hogue is interviewed in prison in Colorado.
As fans around the world follow the World Cup, correspondent Jon Frankel and the Real Sports investigative team reveal a different, troubling side of the event. When they aren't cheering for their team, a sizable number of fans visit the thousands of legal brothels near the venues in almost every city. Since prostitution was legalized by the German government in 2002, the sex industry has exploded, with an estimated 400,000 prostitutes now in the country. But along with the women working the sex trade legally, thousands of women in Germany work as prostitutes against their will. Lured to the country in the hopes of gaining work as waitresses, nannies and hotel maids, these unsuspecting women are physically threatened and forced into the sex trade.
Revisiting an inspiring story of courage and perseverance that first aired on Real Sports in February 2005, correspondent Mary Carillo updates this remarkable tale of injured soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. As a young infantryman in Vietnam, Kirk Bauer lost a leg in an explosion. He found himself lying in a veterans' hospital pondering a hopeless future when fellow veterans who were also amputees encouraged him to try snow skiing. That first confidence-inspiring experience on skis changed his life. Today, Bauer is executive director of Disabled Sports U.S.A., a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of disabled veterans by offering them the same motivating experience that got him out of his own hospital bed 37 years ago. The ski program has now expanded to New York, where New York City firefighters have been enlisted to help the soldiers learn how to water ski and participate in similar activities.
Learn more about the organizations featured in this segment, and how to donate:
Wounded Warrior Project
Disabled Sports USA
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