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February 02, 2015

Robert Lipsyte, a legacy interview, called a New York legend by Slate, just completed an 18 month stint as ombudsman for ESPN. He was among the first journalists to cover Muhammad Ali

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['Robert Lipsyte was a sports and city affairs columnist for The New York Times and host of an Emmy Award winning program on Channel 13, the PBS station in New York. Lipsyte recently completed an 18 month assignment as the ombudsman for ESPN. He is a lifetime achievement award recipient from the American Library Association and he co-author of Nigger: An Autobiography, a memoir of comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Robert Lipsyte was a sports and city affairs columnist for The New York Times and host of an Emmy Award winning program on Channel 13, the PBS station in New York. Lipsyte recently completed an 18 month assignment as the ombudsman for ESPN. He is a lifetime achievement award recipient from the American Library Association and he co-author of Nigger: An Autobiography, a memoir of comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory.')])]

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