Best of Outkick the Coverage: 08/23/2017
2 Pros and a Cup of Joe
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It's the Best of Outkick the Coverage with Clay Travis. Clay discusses the absurdity of ESPN pulling an Asian announcer off a college football broadcast because his name is Robert Lee and they're worried some viewers might find his name offensive, and why the Kyrie Irving-to-Boston trade sounds exciting but really has little impact in the grand scheme of things in the NBA. Plus, FS1 UFC commentator Jon Anik stops by to preview Mayweather-McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | This is the best of outkick the coverage with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | The biggest story in sports right now. |
| 0:13.8 | It is crossed over into the sports beyond the sports arena. |
| 0:19.2 | CNN is covering this MSNBC Fox News outkick the coverage. |
| 0:23.8 | If you're just waking up last night broke the news that ESPN had removed an Asian |
| 0:30.5 | announced her name Robert Lee from calling the University of Virginia William and Mary |
| 0:37.1 | Game because his name was too similar to Robert Ely and they were afraid that they would |
| 0:42.8 | offend and or trigger some of their viewers with that connection. |
| 0:48.3 | This is real life. |
| 0:49.3 | This is not a made up onion article headline. |
| 0:52.2 | This is not Saturday night live fake news. |
| 0:54.9 | This is real news that outkick the coverage broke ESPN issued a statement confirming this |
| 1:01.1 | story to outkick. |
| 1:03.1 | I was on Tucker Carlson last night. |
| 1:06.3 | I'm going to be on Fox News and several other news stations later in the day ESPN's |
| 1:10.8 | official statement. |
| 1:12.2 | We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville |
| 1:18.0 | were unfolding simply because of the coincidence of his name in that moment. |
| 1:23.4 | It felt right to all parties. |
| 1:25.3 | It's a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by |
| 1:30.0 | play for a football game has become an issue. |
| 1:33.8 | Our poll question you can go find me at Clay Travis and I need you to vote in because I'm |
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