For the first time since he was released from prison, Michael Vick is opening up about his time behind bars as well as his involvement in dog fighting. Vick sat down with James Brown of CBS Sports for a piece on “60 Minutes” that aired last night.

Brown spoke about the interview with John Roberts and Kiran Chetry on CNN’s “American Morning” Monday. The following is an edited version of the transcript.

Kiran Chetry: Let’s listen to just a little bit of what he told you about what he might have learned behind bars.

From "60 Minutes" interview:

James Brown: Do you understand why people are outraged?

Michael Vick: I understand why, but I’m going to say it again. It sickens me to my stomach and it was, you know, the same feeling I’m feeling right now is what people was feeling.

Brown: And the feeling you’re feeling right now is?

Vick: Disgust. Pure disgust.

Chetry: He also went on to say that he cried the first night in his cell. Did you walk out of that interview feeling he was someone who was truly remorseful for what he had done?

Brown: Kiran, the frame of reference that I have in saying yes is that I did visit with him in Leavenworth, Kansas during his incarceration and also during home confinement in Norfolk, Virginia where I had about a three hour sit down with him just to do some background work prior to the interview. And Kiran, I can say that he was very consistent in all three visits and there certainly seemed to be a real resolve and understanding of why folks are so outraged and him understanding why in fact what he was doing, although introduced early to this, that it was in fact the wrong thing and cruel indeed.

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(CNN) - Michael Vick, recently reinstated to the NFL after being freed from federal prison after a dogfighting-related conviction, has signed a two-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles, according to his agent, Joel Segal.

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The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback reports to Philadelphia on Friday, Segal told CNN.

Details of the deal were not immediately available Thursday night.

The league suspended Vick indefinitely in August 2007 after he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home he owned in Virginia.

Vick, 29, was freed from federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on May 20 and returned to his home to serve the last two months of his 23-month sentence in home confinement.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said Thursday night in a statement it was "incredibly disappointed" at the news of Vick's signing.

"Philadelphia is a city of dog lovers and most particularly, pit bull lovers," said Susan Cosby, the organization's chief executive officer. "To root for someone who participated in the hanging, drowning, electrocution and shooting of dogs will be impossible for many, no matter how much we would all like to see the Eagles go all the way."

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March Madness and who will rule college basketball is topic number one right now in the sports world. So why exactly are the Senate, the House, and even the President also talking up another game?

Three big letters: BCS. That’s why.

BCS stands for the college football “Bowl Championship Series”. There may be nothing more controversial in the intercollegiate athletics than the way the football champion is crowned every year.

Unlike all other major college sports, football does not have a series of playoff games that result in the last man standing. Instead they use a complicated formula based on polls to determine team rankings. At the end of the season, the 2 teams with the highest rankings play each other in one of the major bowls games to determine who actually is number one. The other teams ranked below them play in other bowls, but the winner of the top bowl game has always been crowned national champion. The past season it was Florida, which was ranked #1, beating Oklahoma, which was ranked #2, by the score 24-14. Read the story.

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