Edge of Sports
Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
- Website
- https://audioboom.com/channel/edge-of-sports
- Description
- Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-30 02:00
- last episode published
- 2025-03-24 11:00
- publication frequency
- 9.38 days
- Contributors
- audioBoom
- Owner
- Dave Zirin / The Nation
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 414
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- Categories
- News Sports & Recreation
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-24 | This week, we speak to Rabbi Brant Rosen of the Tzedek Chicago Synagogue, a synagogue that claims anti-Zionism as a core tenet of their beliefs. We talk about this perilous moment when an antisemitic administration is weaponizing antisemitism to jail I... |
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| 2025-03-17 |
Journalist and Trans Athlete Karleigh Webb & Great Point Guards of Yesteryear This week, we speak to Outsports journalist and Connecticut Ambush football player Karleigh Webb about her journey and insights on trans issues in sports. Also, we speak to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the long-lost days of the court general, who wa... |
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| 2025-03-11 | This week, we speak to US-born, Rio de Janeiro-based visionary Robert Wilson, whose short volume A Football Manifesto is a brilliant excavation of the systemic, structural problems in US men’s soccer and a radical fan-centric approach to radical change... |
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| 2025-03-03 | This week, we have a talk I gave two years ago about the social function of sports in an authoritarian society. It rings more true today, and I wanted to share it with you all. Also, I talked to basketball savant Arya Shirazi about the injuries that ch... |
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| 2025-03-03 | This week, we have a talk I gave two years ago about the social function of sports in an authoritarian society. It rings more true today, and I wanted to share it with you all. Also, I talked to basketball savant Arya Shirazi about the injuries that ch... |
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| 2025-02-24 | This week, we speak to former NFL player Chris Kluwe. Kluwe made news this week for his protest of MAGA at a Huntingdon Beach city council meeting, garnering headlines worldwide. We discuss what led to that moment, why he did what he did, and the sport... |
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| 2025-02-12 |
The Sports Doc We’ve Been Waiting For And the NBA at the All-Star Break This week we speak to executive producer Arif Khatib and director Steven C. Bernier about their new documentary, Because They Believed: Minority Athletic Trailblazers Who Broke through The Racial Divide. The film is available on all streaming platforms... |
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| 2025-02-06 | It's being called the most shocking trade in basketball or even sports history: All-NBA guard Luka Doncic was sent from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. Everyone is searching for reasons why the Mavericks would throw aw... |
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| 2025-02-03 |
The Legendary Robert Lipsyte: His New Book Rhino Run, And How YA Novels Can Save The World This week, we speak to the legendary New York Times journalist and acclaimed Young Adult writer Robert Lipsyte. We talk about his new book, Rhino’s Run, the relationship between high school athletes and masculinity, and the galvanizing potential of Ame... |
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| 2025-01-26 | We have two guests, Harrison Browne, and Arya Shirazi, talking about trans athletes and the golden era of NBA centers.This week, we speak to Harrison Browne, the first transgender pro hockey player, about a new book he wrote with his journalist sister ... |
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