talk about that as little as possible. i think that s why you get this line not just from the ioc, but also from the russians that this is supposed to be about sports and about the olympics and don t worry about these things. and there s a long tradition of these things. the soviets hosted the olympics in 1980. so it s not a new problem to figure out the problem of how do we deal with handing out olympics sometimes to countries whose activities we think are unsavory. for a long time, the world has found one way or another to deal with having the olympics in countries that were up to bad things. let s talk about the gay rights situation. just today, the u.n. chief called for an end to discrimination against gays. he didn t speak specifically about the situation in russia, but the timing of his message and the message itself, pretty darn clear. he said, we must all raise our voices against attacks on lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender or intersex people. they re also saying no pro
focus on the halfpipe event. he said with the practice runs have taken even after course modifications and watching fellow athletes get hurt, the potential risk of injury is a bit too much for me to gamble my other olympic goals on. it s the 12th man time. 700,000 fans swarmed the streets to celebrate the super bowl champion seahawks. complete with marshawn lynch and a hoodie that says beast mode throwing skittles into the crowd. his favorite. i know. people are loving it. in this video,lism s lynch sees something he wants, that s bottle of fireball whiskey. curt schilling has been diagnosed with cancer. it didn t disclose the type of cancer he has. he played 20 years with five different teams. his wife also battled cancer after being diagnosed in 2001. we wish him well. look at these ladies, they re
[ speaking foreign language ] translator: we d much rather work on freeing the people who are still in jail who got arrested on the 6th of may for standing up for freedom and there are 12 people in jail right now with terms ranging from five to six years. and while this is happening, no p.r. stunt can fix russia s image. what do you think about this idea of putin freeing them right before the games as a sort of p.r. stunt, and is he perhaps letting them go to america and say whatever they want on american television a way of him sort of showing how powerful he is, and that they can t really hurt him, and somehow this actually makes him look better? i think that s plausible. i d also note that russia it s not north korea in terms. the media environment. it s a repressive place, but it s unevenly repressive. television is basically state controlled, but you have a substantially freer print media.
i think you probably shouldn t fish out of the toilets in sew chi sochi. of all the advice, that seems pretty correct. i hope you can join us next week when we talk more olympics. abby is doing a special series, bobsledding versus curling. which are you coming down on? i haven t decided yet. that s a great tease. josh, things are falling apart here. come back again soon. okay. up next, after two decades, america does say farewell to jay leno tonight. it reminds us of some other memorable tv goodbyes and we ll spin on that next. sound of spray paint ] we asked people a question, how much money do you think you ll need when you retire? $500,000. maybe half-million. say a million dollars. [ dan ] then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last.
signing day. for the third straight year the crimson tide got the top ranked recruiting class after receiving 19 letters of intent from players yesterday. that s in addition to eight early enrollees. the next top five are lsu, florida state, texas, and then tennessee. rounding out the top five there. some sad news now from the baseball world to pass along. former pitcher curt schilling says he has cancer. the 47-year-old is now an espn analyst and pitched for 20 years, he won three world series titles with the red sox and the diamondbacks. in the statement schilling says with my incredibly talented medical team i am ready to try and win another big game. he has the right attitude there. with the sochi olympic games already underway, athletes are gearing up to get ready to go, except one treatment. we have the two man jamaican bobsled team. the team s gear and bobsled is