Watchdog

I don't mention ESPN's "Outside the Lines'' often enough. It's one of those grown-up shows whose existence is comforting, but that you often forget to watch. Sorry.

The show is presenting what sounds like an interesting episode Sunday, an update on the infamous 1972 crash of a rugby team in the Andes that involved taking extreme measures to survive.

ESPN said "Chris Connelly and a camera crew spent two weeks in South America interviewing people, including three survivors and the man who found them.''

The show debuts at 9:30 a.m.

The survivors' 72-day ordeal was recounted in the film "Alive'' and has been told often over the years, including in an episode of HBO's "Real Sports" in October. But it never fails to fascinate.

Here is a quote from survivor Roberto Canessa that will be heard on Sunday’s show:

"You feel very sad, very, very sad, and you think, ‘Why do I have to do that?’ Of course it was repugnant when you have to cut the piece of a dead person and eat it, and I thought, if I have to do this to go back to my mother and tell her, ‘Don’t cry anymore, your son is alive,’ I would eat in a second. I didn’t want to cause her this huge pain of dying for a dead son."