Preview of ESPN’s Outside The Lines for 12/28/08

This is a clip of a story that ESPN’s Outside The Lines will run this Sunday. If you saw HBO’s Real Sports on Tuesday, this is a story that Mary Carillo wanted to do, but for some reason, could not. Instead, ESPN has gotten access to Elena Delle Donne who walked away from a basketball scholarship from UConn in August and then walked on to the Delaware volleyball team and made an immediate impact.

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ESPN’s award-winning Outside the Lines (Sundays 9 a.m. ET ESPN, noon ESPNEWS) will offer a multimedia enterprise journalism presentation telling the story of Elena Delle Donne, including her first television interview since the 2008 Naismith National High School Player-of-the-Year told University of Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma in August that she would not be playing basketball for the perennially powerful Huskies, or for anyone else.

Delle Donne, a 6-foot-4 guard whose skills had earned her the nickname the “Female LeBron,” tells reporter Mark Schwarz that she “couldn’t stand” basketball since she was 13. The Delaware native left UConn, where she had committed, and returned home to the University of Delaware where she began playing volleyball, and made the conference All-Rookie team.

Here’s a preview of what you’ll see on Sunday.

I look forward to watching this.