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Sportswriter Suggests Changing Name Of The Masters Golf Tournament: ‘It’s Only Right And Just’

Hank Berrien
Sportswriter Suggests Changing Name Of The Masters Golf Tournament: ‘It’s Only Right And Just’
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A sportswriter who had already suggested that the NFL eliminate the playing of the national anthem before each game is now suggesting that The Masters golf tournament change its name because “in the current climate, with all the sweeping changes, it’s only right and just.”

Rob Parker has made controversial statements before, such as asking in 2012 whether former Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, who is black, was “a brother, or is he a cornball brother?” and adding, “I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he’s a Republican.”

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