ESPN reassigns commentator Robert Lee over ‘name coincidence’
ESPN has removed a sports commentator from covering an American football game in Charlottesville because he has the same name as Civil War General Robert E Lee. Robert Lee was scheduled to cover a University of Virginia game in the city for the broadcaster on 2 September. ESPN said it had moved Mr Lee “simply because of the coincidence of his name”. White nationalists marched through the college during a rally this month. The rally was organised to protest against the removal of a statue of General Lee, who commanded the pro-slavery Confederate forces during the American Civil War....
ESPN has removed a sports commentator from covering an American football game in Charlottesville because he has the same name as Civil War General Robert E Lee. Robert Lee was scheduled to cover a University of Virginia game in...
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