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Joining me now, staff writer of the new yorker, history writer at university of connecticut. and dave zyer host of the edge of sports podcast. dave, you've been doing a lot of reporting on this story before it kind of exploded onto national consciousness. give us a little bit of context of how this got to this point. >> how it got to the point at missouri, it goes back years. years of racial tension, years of students and faculty members of color feeling marginalized, feeling like they weren't being heard. and it really came to a head with the killing of michael brown in ferguson just two hour...

Leader that doesn't really care about these things. and so if you're looking at the students trying to talk to or confront the president at homecoming, he stays in the car and doesn't talk to them. or the other instances that are going on campus of racism and it doesn't appear as if the institution recognizes the importance, then it does become something that is in the president's purview. >> dave, i never heard of a big-time college football team essentially threatening a strike. i was looking around today to try to find some examples. i couldn't really come up with a proper precedent. how bi...