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Jim Brown won't back down on Tiger

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Apologize? Jim Brown isn't going to apologize. "I was asked a question," he said when I spoke with him Wednesday. "I gave an answer." The question, posed by HBO's Bryant Gumbel, essentially asked why there aren't more prominent black athletes willing to do what Brown, Arthur Ashe, Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell did during and after the height of their influence: make stands, make change, make noise as social activists. The answer was as blunt as the working end of Brown's walking cane. He ...

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