Ray Rice, the Atlanta Hawks, and the Bigger Stories Behind the Sports

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 9, 2014

Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL after a video was released showing him knocking his wife out in an elevator. In another major sports story this week, the owner of the Atlanta Hawks is selling his interest in the team, after an email he wrote about attracting more white fans to games surfaced. Jane McManus, sportswriter for ESPNNewYork.com, and William C. Rhoden New York Times sportswriter, columnist and author talk about the bigger issues and questions raised by these two incidents.

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