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The Brian Lehrer Show
Can Off-Field Feuds Lead to On-Field Failure in Sports?

George Vecsey, a sports columnist for The New York Times and author of the book Eight World Cups: My Journey through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer (St. Martin's Griffin, 2014) and Jeff McKay, a college baseball coach and a former Major League Baseball coaching consultant, discuss whether a team can be successful if its players are feuding, in light of the surge of fights among teammates in NFL training camps, one of which left Jets quarterback Geno Smith with a broken jaw.