00:00Christine, I do want to ask you this question here.
00:02Sarah Spain said something, and I want you to respond to this if you can.
00:08It says that Brennan was painting the entire league with one broad stroke.
00:13We would never say that the NBA hates fill in the blank.
00:19That's described every single player in the league as having an opinion
00:22and being a part of an agenda.
00:25She does that all the time with the WNBA,
00:27and it's frankly a dereliction of duties as a journalist.
00:30I'd love your response to that.
00:33By the way, sorry I lost you there.
00:35I guess the way of the world and technology,
00:39and I hope you got the gist of obviously what I was saying there
00:41about how illustrative that whole situation is.
00:46I've known Sarah for a long time.
00:47I have supported her in ways big and small.
00:52She would call me often kind of last minute
00:54or within the last couple hours before her show on ESPN
00:57and ask if I could be on sometimes, like, you know, needing something,
01:02or she told me it's, you know, last minute, sorry.
01:04And I, of course, said yes every single time,
01:07whether it was here in D.C.
01:08or if I was at the Olympics or what have you.
01:11And I will always support women and men, younger people in sports media.
01:16I do more mentoring and supporting and talking to people than anything else,
01:20and Sarah's been one of those people for years, and she knows it.
01:24For some reason, she has decided to attach herself to me on this.
01:31That's her right.
01:32It's a free country.
01:35She got things completely wrong and put them all on Twitter
01:39when the D.J. Carrington, when I asked the two questions of D.J. Carrington
01:42that then the WNBA players wanted to ban me for.
01:46They failed miserably.
01:48I did not get banned.
01:49And what it showed was, oh, my goodness,
01:52are they saying that women can't handle the same questions as men?
01:55You know, the 20th, 21st century?
01:58I don't know what.
01:59But that was a sad, sad day and sad time for the WNBA and the players
02:04to not like a couple questions that helped the athlete, D.J. Carrington, clear the air.
02:10But Sarah got involved in that, had four or five things wrong,
02:14put them all over Twitter, and I called her.
02:17I don't ever tweet at people.
02:19I called her, and I said, this is all wrong.
02:22And she said, I'll quote you saying that, and she wanted to tweet that.
02:27And I said, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
02:31And then I had to tweet it out just to clear the air, and she was wrong,
02:34and she admitted she was wrong.
02:36So I don't know what's going on with Sarah.
02:39I feel very comfortable with my journalism.
02:41I think anyone I work for, USA Today, CNN, ABC, PBS NewsHour,
02:46feel very comfortable with my journalism.
02:48I've been doing this for over 40 years, as you know.
02:52The reason my book is a New York Times bestseller is because it's all factual.
02:57That column I wrote the other day is there's not one person other than Sarah
03:02who's, you know, squawked about that.
03:06But, again, she has every right to do that.
03:08I don't know what's going on with her, but I have no beef with her.
03:13This is a one-way street.
03:15There's something that she is just continuing on.
03:18And, by the way, when I wrote about the stain and the, you know,
03:22the way the players feel, well, again, what we talked about, 11.
03:26I mean, the examples are all over the place of exactly what I wrote in that column.
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