Sports Network dedicated to broadcasting programming 24 hours a day in the Spanish language, ESPN Deportes will broadcast a special three-part series on former Major League Baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina on Sunday, Sept. 28, Monday, Sept. 29 and Tuesday, Sept. 30. The former MLB pitcher, currently serving a 14- year sentence in Venezuela for the attempted murder of four workers on his family’s ranch. ESPN Deportes will broadcast the segments on SportsCenter at 11:00 PM and 2:00 PM and a re-air on the morning SportsCenter.
Ugueth Urbina is currently in the Penitenciaria General deVenezuela with maximum security in San Juan de los Morros prison was interviewed by Baseball expert Ernesto Jerez. Urbina was once considered among the most effective closers in MLB describes life behinds and his hope for regaining freedom on Part one and shows Urbinas’ 10 x 6 cell, fitted with a color television, a small refrigerator and a laptop computer, as well as footage of him playing on a prison basketball league team in Part two. In the series final segment Jerez asks Urbina about his family and future plans as he awaits a court date for an appeal his defense lawyer presented in June of 2007.
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