It happened last week, 52-years ago, Christmas week of 1969, when two of the most consequential letters in the history of North American sports were exchanged. So much of what has followed in the history of sport, in the ongoing struggle for athletes to have a say in their career, […]
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The Athletes We Share and the Athletes Who Divide Us
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, has thirty plus year legacy of making thought-provoking documentaries for PBS. His current subject is Muhammad Ali. Burns’ four-part look at Ali’s life and times premiered on Sunday and continues over the next three days. There is probably no athlete, perhaps at any time in history, […]
Read MoreThis Age of Athlete Activism is Rooted in 9/11
Soon after the Twin Towers fell on September 11th, 2001, I received a phone call from Los Angeles. The voice of the Fox Sport Net assignment desk editor was hurried and bit tentative. “It is all hands on deck. Fox News is asking all our reporters in New York to […]
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