Former Kansas basketball forward Scot Pollard, the star of the reality television series “Survivor” in 2016 and featured actor in the movie “The Profit” in 2017, will be back on TV on Father’s Day as subject of a new ESPN documentary.

ESPN’s E60 , which was founded in 2007 as the cable network’s storytelling brand, will, at 12 p.m. Central on Sunday, June 15, debut “Heart of Pearl,” in which host Jeremy Schaap will explore Pollard’s battle to live in February of 2024 when advanced heart failure forced Pollard to undergo a heart transplant.

The title of the documentary, which will be shown on ESPN and streamed afterward on ESPN+, alludes to Pollard’s dad, Pearl, who collapsed and died of heart failure when Scot, now 50, was 16.

Unlike Scot, who was matched with a donor, dad Pearl, who

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