Cenk Uygur
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ESPN Apologizes For 'Auctioning Off' Football Players
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August 17, 2017
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7:48Now PlayingESPN didn’t think this one through. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"ESPN offered an apology on Tuesday; Odell Beckham Jr. had no words to offer.
The Worldwide Leader apologized for airing a skit the previous day, on ESPN2, in which predominantly white fantasy football players participated in an auction to buy several fantasy stars, including Beckham, who is black.
An auction draft — in which fantasy players pay imaginary money for fantasy-purpose ownership of players on sports teams — is commonplace; rendering that world into reality, in which a group of white men raise paddles to purchase a black athlete, had racial undertones that had many people — including Beckham — slamming ESPN for being tone-deaf.”*
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich
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