With a boycott during the playoffs. Speaking up. Pandemic politics. Vice president pence paints a positive picture of the president s Coronavirus Response at the Republican National convention. What this says about how the gop thinks it can win. But first, heres todays eyeopener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Welcome to cbs this morning. Theres a lot going on. Are we going back to the eyeopener. Welcome back to cbs this morning. This is one of those rare days where anthony, as you know, there are so many things going on at the same time. Thats what i was trying to say. We could have had several leads. Theyre all very, very troubling. Well begin with the one everybody is talking about at this hour. Hurricane laura. The country, as you know, being tested in many ways. First we have a coronavirus, an economic csis and weve got a reckoning on systemic race sichl. Now were being tested again by one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u. S. The last thing anybody needs. Her name is hurri
A champion who gave up perhaps the best years of his life by taking a stand, a personal stand saying he would not serve in the draft. He would not fight against the communists in vietnam, and he paid the price for that with some of the best years of his life. But he came back and became champion again. Gary radnich is here now. And this is certainly somebody that just transcends sports. And with next time you see an athlete make a prediction, stick out his chest and tell you what hes going to do it all began with ali. His career began in lewisville kentucky where he won an olympic light heavy weight gold medal. And upon his return, he found that racism with a gold medal around his neck or not was still very prevalent in his native lewisville. The story goes he went to a bridge, threw his gold medal into the water never to retrieve it. And it went on to become the heavy weight champion. In the early 60s he was a 71 underdog when he took on sonny lipton and he said im going to beat this
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this is a question of who wants to see more politics in sports if you were alive. muhammad aly would like to see more politics in sports. we can all agree he was a pretty amazing athlete and someone who used his platform to take a stand on a political case that mattered to manages and millions of people and lost a great deal as a result of his decision to protest serve in the vietnam war. this is not a new thing. i take katie s point with the athletes predominately doing this but it is, when we talk about a special plays we live and great community we re part of with these western democracies why isn t this a good thing that you can also see us coming together especially at the olympics and everybody taking a knee to say the world is not equal. it s inequal in all different sorts of ways but we want to be united in this. we re in united in jesse. i m waiting for lebron james now that his space jam is out to criticize join a and talk about