{"id":127629,"date":"2017-08-23T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127629"},"modified":"2017-08-23T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:20:58","slug":"robert-lee-not-working-espn-game-at-virgina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127629","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lee not working ESPN game at Virgina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RobertLeeESPN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-127664\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RobertLeeESPN-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RobertLeeESPN-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RobertLeeESPN-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RobertLeeESPN-260x175.png 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RobertLeeESPN.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 ESPN broadcaster Robert Lee will not work Virginia&#8217;s season opener because of recent violence in Charlottesville sparked by the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for ESPN says Lee has been moved to Youngstown State&#8217;s game at Pittsburgh on the ACC Network on Sept. 2. The network says the decision was made &#8220;as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plans to remove a statue of Lee led to a protest in Charlottesville earlier this month that attracted what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade. Violent clashes erupted between a large gathering of white nationalists and hundreds of counter protesters.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN says the decision to put Lee on another game was made &#8220;collectively.&#8221; It also says it&#8217;s &#8220;a shame that this is even a topic of conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 ESPN broadcaster Robert Lee will not work Virginia&#8217;s season opener because of recent violence in Charlottesville sparked by the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. A spokeswoman for ESPN says Lee has been moved to Youngstown State&#8217;s game at Pittsburgh on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127666,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127629\/revisions\/127666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}