Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Three UCLA basketball players, LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, embarrassed the University when they were accused of shoplifting in China.
But hours after President Donald Trump said he talked to his Chinese counterpart, all charges were dropped and the teens were allowed to leave. Today, they held a press conference where the school announced that they were suspended from the team indefinitely. The players thanked President Trump and apologized for their arrests in China.
And GQ magazine has jumped into the NFL national anthem protest story by naming Colin Kaepernick as Citizen of the Year.
We'll talk about that, and a lot more with