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MONDAY'S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:MLB: Exhibition: Washington vs. Detroit, 1:05 p.m. (MLB Network)MLB: Exhibition: Boston at Toronto, 1:07 p.m. (WEEI-AM 850)NBA: San Antonio at Houston, 8 p.m. (ESPN)NBA: Miami at Portland, 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- Fox's two-hour special, O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?, premiered Sunday night, showing an unearthed 2006 interview with O.J. Simpson in which he appears to confess to murder.
Simpson hypothetically explains to publisher Judith Regan how he killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994.
He recounts the chilling details of what "might have" happened the night of the murders and even pretty much admitted to dropping the infamous glove at the scene.
"I had no conscious memory of doing that, but obviously I must have, because they found a glove there," Simpson said.
The special included a panel of analysts, led by Soledad O'Brien, who concluded this was a confession from Simpson.
"I think he's confessed to murder," former Los Angeles prosecutor Christopher Darden. "I don't think there's any question of his involvement and that he is the person who is wielding the knife."
Other panel members included Nicole's friend Eve Chen and retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente.
One moment from the interview that the panel reacted to was when Simpson mentioned how he felt at Brown-Simpson's funeral.
"I still had so many feelings," he said, referring to still being upset about an incident that occured months before this, in which Nicole the 911 call claiming Simpson was going to "beat the s–t" out of her.
When asked what he said to Brown-Simpson when was he was shown on camera leaning over her body and kissing her at the funeral, Simpson said, "I don't know if I said anything, to be honest with you."
"Again, he blames her and he's angry at her that he's still angry," Regan said of this statement. "What he's essentially saying is that after you kill someone you'd think the anger would go away, but it didn't."
"He's not thinking about the brutal way she was killed, the suffering," Darden said. "All he's talking about is his anger and his inability to further control her. And when he says, 'Didn't I tell you, didn't I tell you?' [he means> didn't I tell you I'd kill your ass if you didn't do what I told you to do.'"
Viewers also reacted to the interview on social media.
OJ describing this "hypothetical" in very descriptive language. BRUUUUUUH. #DidOJConfesspic.twitter.com/ONREw4mTK9
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) March 12, 2018"This is hard to make people think I'm a murderer"It's actually going SWIMMINGLY, OJ. It's very easy to make them think you're the murderer pic.twitter.com/FQOf3j8CvI
— KFC (@KFCBarstool) March 12, 2018"Is it just me, or did anyone else notice when OJ started taking on first person??? #LateNiteTV" -- @JonathanMcCall
"'Which ever reason why I did it, you decide.' The OJ interview is the closest most will ever get to a true psychopath, highly recommended viewing." -- @Cernovich
OJ Simpson: Nicole fell on the ground. I was holding a knife then I blacked out. When I came to there was blood everywhere and everybody was dead. But I didn't kill em.Everyone else: pic.twitter.com/U6iIa4Bt2d
— dylan (@dyllyp) March 12, 2018-- There were some changes to this year's NCAA March Madness Selection Show on TBS and viewers were not happy about it.
The changes were announced last week, with the 68 teams involved in March Madness set to be introduced alphabetically (ruining the anticipation) within the first 15 minutes of the show rather than showing the brackets first.
The reaction wasn't great.
CBS and Turner Sports have made changes to #SelectionSunday.Those changes include first naming the 68 teams in alphabetical order, and then slowly revealing the bracket itself. https://t.co/ucr9v184gU pic.twitter.com/khwaBGxGYE
— Sporting News (@sportingnews) March 11, 2018Me when Selection Sunday starts vs. Me when they announce the first region of the bracket pic.twitter.com/fclmXOaAIH
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) March 11, 2018"This is like watching a weird game show on Italian late-night TV that's been translated into English." -- @ZachOsterman
"America is uniting. All it took was a horrible Selection Sunday show format." -- @LateRoundQB
"Is it just me or is it wack that you now have to know the alphabet to know which teams didn't get into the tournament" --@JeremyWoo
The Lawrence Police Department even had some fun with it, tweeting: "Please do not call 911 to complain about the format of the NCAA tournament selection show. We can't do anything about it, no matter how bad it is."
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Gronk is my guy. Gronk is a competitor, and sometimes after games like that, you kind of sit and have to think about it. I don't know, I haven't talked to [anyone> about this, but Gronk is the ultimate competitor. Gronk is going to come back, and he's going to be the best at his position. Patriots fans have nothing to worry about; that's just me thinking [it>." -- Marquis Flowers, on Rob Gronkowski deciding whether to retire or keep playing for the Patriots
