Sports columnist Howard Bryant, author of The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, and USA Today columnist and CNN and ABC News commentator Christine Brennan discuss how expressions of patriotism became embedded in American sports after 9/11, why they persist almost two decades later, and how they complicate the world of sports today.
Celebrated restaurateur Danny Meyer shares his own 9/11 experience as a midtown resident and business owner. He reflects on a post-9/11 industry-wide initiative to breathe life back into New York City’s restaurant culture; a dual mission to serve a devastated city and keep the industry afloat.
Mike Greenberg, longtime SportsCenter anchor and current host of ESPN’s "Get Up!”, discusses how league commissioners led the charge in supporting a reeling nation in a post-9/11 world with NBA Commissioner Emeritus David J. Stern, WNBA Founding President and Big East Conference Commissioner Val Ackerman, former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, and current NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. All four were Honorary Exhibition Co-Chairs of the special exhibition Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11.