REPORT: ESPN Removes College Football Announcer From Game Because He’s Named ‘Robert Lee’

UPDATE: ESPN confirmed via emailed statement that they did, indeed, take Robert Lee off the UVA game over the fact that his name was close to that of a Confederate general.

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