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The Madness Of March

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The NCAA men's basketball tournament is going on right now and will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The coaches and commissioners who benefit are overwhelmingly white. The players on the court are MOSTLY black. So what, if anything, are those players owed?

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0:00.0

My name is Ed O'Bannon and I am in sales at Finley Toyota.

0:07.8

Ed is a car salesman.

0:08.8

He lives near Las Vegas.

0:09.8

He has a wife and three kids.

0:11.3

And he's taking a break from the car dealership to talk to us.

0:14.1

My day is really uneventful.

0:17.0

You know, I can't wait for baseball season to start so my kid can get out and go watch

0:20.8

him pitch.

0:22.8

I'm actually pretty boring to be honest with you.

0:26.6

All right, so Ed O'Bannon is being all humble, but we need to blow up his spot a little.

0:30.7

He used to be a very famous athlete.

0:33.9

And he took on one of the biggest, most powerful institutions in sports, the NCAA.

0:41.7

This is Co-Twitch.

0:42.7

I'm Gene Demby.

0:43.7

And I'm Shireen Madisal Miraji.

0:45.2

On this episode, the madness of March.

0:49.0

The NCAA men's basketball tournament is going on right now as we speak.

0:53.3

And that college basketball tournament will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars

0:56.8

in revenue.

0:57.8

The TV execs, coaches, universities and university heads who benefit from all this are overwhelmingly

1:05.1

white.

1:06.1

But those players on the court, they're mostly black.

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