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Current Sports | May 9, 2018

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NBA on TNT; Michigan State Athletics Internal Auditing; NPR Kevin Blackistone and David Greene Interview

"Google me, Chuck!" On this episode of "Current Sports with Al Martin," Al plays a bite from "NBA on TNT" in which Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal got heated with each other. Al also discusses the internal auditing of the Michigan State athletic department, and how Lou Anna K. Simon and Mark Hollis failed to act on the inconsistencies in the reports. To close the show, Al plays an interview from NPR's David Greene and ESPN's Kevin Blackistone, in which Blackistone comments on the millions of dollars generated by college sports that is not given to the players.

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