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  • Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson keeps getting what for from the media.

Wednesday morning I posted a long comment on the Bleader about the indignation currently being lavished by sports pages on Bruce Levenson and the tandem of Ray Rice and Roger Goodell. Sportswriters—though not all—love to kvetch. They love to fret over behavior that in their view is morally amiss. Their view is none too reliable thanks to their steamed-up glasses.

Araton probably told himself he was providing some. He conceded that juggling white and black players and white and black fans is a tricky business proposition that the NBA has managed with considerable success, despite outliers like Donald Sterling (the former LA Clippers owner caught on tape shooting his mouth off and quickly run out of the league).