about the state of sports in america. bob costas is joined by frank deford, who once upon a team used to team up with bob on nfl studio show. you see a shot there from 1987. mike pesca is back with us, as well. we ll start with soccer is all over the news. although with the u.s. fall out of the u.s. cup, it s fading from the headlines. it s supposit does raise the qu what is our national pastime these days? how a lot of us grew up about baseball, but is it nfl or maybe video game verk version?
audience in that context, i think serves a purpose. so when we had you on the phone a couple months ago, it was the morning after the whole donald sterling thing. and it looks like that is sort of getting resolved. there will be a new own, steve ballmer will own the clippers and wife immunized. so now that that is in the rear view mirror, did we learn anything from that? was sports changed in any way? was that about anything? to me that was a low hanging fruit thing. who who this side of outliers who can t get a hearing anywhere on the spectrum, who doesn t think that what donald sterling said and what his record reveals about him is unacceptable? so that was an easy one. when people say, well, this is an opportunity to open up a dialogue on race? here is where i think some people who work in this building
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be able to play. and it s been a nonissue. and it s typically a nonissue for race, ethnicity, for gender, when you talk about sports in america. so there s a bit of hypocrisy when you have an owner who seems to have a view that donald sterling has. and the league, while they can t force him to sell, while there s backlash from a player s standpoint, from a fan s perspective, they re going to have to put him in a position where he has to do something significant and also donald sterling pays a significant price. i think that s the shock, when you think of the nba, i can t think of another example where african-american athletes have been more empowered. we saw with lebron and wade and bosh putting their own team together. you have chris paul, the head of the players organization. you have just great moves into management and leadership with
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