Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast.

I'm Dave Ziron.

Today we speak to broadcasting icon Bob Costas about hosting the 2016 Olympics in crisis-ridden Brazil, covering Colin Kaepernick, and how a network manages broadcasting the entertainment of sports when political issues are ripping out through

society.

Those who play a belligerent and brutal game, can we expect all of them to confine

that aggression to the field?

Bruce Jenner was best known as the patriarch of the Kardashian family.

The Kardashian family and Arthur Ash are not exactly on the same page.

Flopty's 32 years old and he's acting like a drunken frat boy. It's not cool. I'm never

one understands that.

Bob Costas, great to have you on the show.

I know you wanted to say something before we delved into the issues of the Olympics and Colin Kaepernick and broadcasting in the 21st century.

Please go ahead.

The floor is yours.

Yeah, it's just the idea, Dave, and I'm sure that you've noticed this, and any reasonable person,

no matter where they may fall on the spectrum, be it sports, politics, whatever, would recognize

this. But context has been largely lost in a social media world, in a hot cliques world.

And so when people have a point of view to express,

even if it's a measured and reasonable point of view, I think a lot of us don't so much

here disagreement as we fear the inevitable misrepresentation. It isn't just that you say A and

it comes out B. You can say A and by the time the technological game of telephone is over with,

like kids used to play in kindergarten, A has become Q.

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