Captioning performed by vitac heres a great read to add to your Summer Reading list. Sundays at 8 00, account a co of stories. I always knew there was a risk in the lifestyle and i decided to take it because whether its an illusion or not, i dont think it is. It helped my concentration. It stopped me being bored and other people being boring to come extent. It made me want to prolong the conversation, to enhance the moment. If i was asked would i do it again, the answer is probably yes. Id have quit earlier possibly hoping to get away with the whole thing. Easy for me to say, of course, not very nice for my children to hear. Sounds irresponsible. If i say, yeah, id do that again to you but the truth is it would be hypocritical to say id never touch the stuff if i knew. Because i did know. Everyone knows. Soviet union and soviet system in Eastern Europe contained the seeds of its own destruction. Many of the problems we saw at the end end at the very beginning. I spoke already about att
Half a dozen who would have been good players who came up later. Interesting thing about Jackie Robinson, the brooklyn dodgers actually stole Jackie Robinson from the monarchs. They never compensated them. Wilkinson who owned the team and a man who had part ownership, they could not say anything, because they would be looked upon as holding the black player back if they were to argue this debate about why didnt you compensate us for this player. This is a business. So they didnt say anything. Quietly, they had their own boycott. No kansas city monarch plays for the dodgers again. Thats the way they boycotted. Brooklyn dodgers had many great players, but they didnt have guys who came from the kansas city monarchs. The monarchs sent more players to the big leagues than any other negro team. Do you have any record of anthony kansas in the monarchs . Sure. My dad played for anthony against the monarchs about 90 years ago, i think. Okay. If theres some way you could id really appreciate it.
Years ago, the average salary in the nba was 5,000. Thats not even meal money now. In the middle 60s, we struck the allstar game, the 20 top players in the league got together and struck an allstar game to form the union. The owners said, no way. We are not going to do that. So we said, okay. There will be no allstar game. Abc television said that if you want us to televise, you get your players on the floor. They said, lets talk to them. So they said, we dont want to lose face. What we will do is if you will play the allstar game, at the end of the year, we will recognize the union. So they vote 119 to play. And we played the allstar game. So at the end of the year we went in to talk to the commissioner. He said, i recognize the players association. But we do not have anything to talk about. Im not going to talk to you about anything. So our lawyer said, i will see you in september. Thats the beginning of the next season. The commissioner said, the playoffs start next week. Oh, no. We
Has gotten through some troubled times and understands what we are doing is ray lewis. Ray, i think, can be the leader of a lot of these young individuals who need that leadership, who want to learn what to do and how to participate in making tremendous change within this country. I thought i would interject that. There is no question that every generation has to develop its own leadership. I think that we can people of our generation can do the analysis and tell them about what happened in the past and where we think they are. But ultimately, its going to have to be this generation thats going to have to take the leadership and responsibility. Let me ask, i know that because we are running short here. Let me ask this. I know that progress many times is a lot like the concept of profit. It really comes down to who is keeping the books. And so in looking at where we are, how much progress have we actually made in sports given the fact that we are down to 8 africanamericans in baseball,
Displayed. The Ukrainian Government and the west are condemn, the voting that took place today in parts of Eastern Ukraine. Separatists in the region of donetsk and luhansk held a vote and it is said the vote is the illegal and could result in the self destruction of those regions. Turn out was high despite attempts by Ukrainian Forces to block election workers from carrying out that vote. Donetsk and luhansky have a combined 6 Million People but only areas living under separatist rule went to the polls. Todays vote went ahead despite calls from Vladimir Putin for postponement. More from the refer endsum from donetsk. Hastyly arranged, low budget, the referendum drew large numbers of voters to a small number of polling stations in towns and cities across the east of ukraine. This was the Regional Center of donetsk, wouldbe seat of the peoples repuckp publicblic of donetsk. The ballot asks whether they agree with the proclamation of the peoples republic or not. The word something vague