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The Brian Lehrer Show / August 02, 2007 / Sporting Goods

Sporting Goods

Thursday, August 02, 2007

New York Times sports columnist William C. Rhoden joins us every Thursday in August to talk sports. This week, he looks at the Baseball and Football Halls of Fame and how each sport deals with the issue of a player’s “character.” His book Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete is just out in paperback.


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  • [1] mark Brown from markbnj.blogspot.com or my-poem-a-day.blogspot.com August 02, 2007 - 10:38AM

    Ahem

    How about telling vick that he has to start to make AMENDS Before the trial

    by volunteering and working against animal cruelty?
  • [2] Lois from Manhattan August 02, 2007 - 10:39AM

    william Rhoden is a revelation --more than a sports columnist, a keen and honest observer and an articulate yet down to earth commentator on what he sees. He goes way beyond race, so is able to present a fuller specturm of the nuances of sports. I hope he does become an historian. I'll be listening every thursday. Thanks for bringing him to us!
  • [3] Dick Cameron from Orange NJ August 02, 2007 - 10:39AM

    Keeping it in line. Perhaps all sports needs to be kept in line for the fans' sake as well as the owner's.

    Will innocent until proven guilty NFL is a private industry who chooses to sideline but still pay an employee whose public appearance may be detrimental to the industry in the whole.

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