Edge of Sports
Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
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- 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
- 2025-02-22 06:55
- last episode published
- 2025-02-12 22:15
- publication frequency
- 9.42 days
- Contributors
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- Owner
- Dave Zirin / The Nation
- Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 408
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2025-01-22 | Body:Â This week, we come from the famed Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, where I interview Derek Silva on the new book he co-authored, The End of College Football. His co-author, Nathan Kalman-Lamb, was denied entry to the U.S. from Ca... |
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| 2025-01-14 |
No Diamonds: The Most Important Sports Films That Aren’t Baseball Hoosiers? Slap Shot? Boxcar Bertha? Today, film savant Arya Shirazi joins the show to talk about the baseball movies that could have been. Zirin, In 2024, the Sports Leagues Watched the World Burnhttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/sports-2024-ye... |
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| 2024-12-17 | This week, we speak about the joy and politics of baseball movies. First, we speak to Noah Gittell, author of the terrific romp of a book Baseball: The Movie. Then we speak to movie savant Arya Shirazi about the five most essential baseball movies of a... |
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| 2024-12-09 |
Chet or Biff: What We Can Politically Learn From The Biggest Dirtbags in 80s Teen Movies? This week, we join longtime, award-winning Hollywood Makeup artist Spring Super to discuss teen film villains in the 1980s and how they affect our politics! Zirin, What the Bosa/Kaepernick Double Standard Tells Us About the 2024 Electionshttps://www.th... |
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| 2024-11-14 | This week on the Edge of Sports podcast, savant Arya Shirazi joins Dave to discuss what they have learned ten games into the season and what predictions they would do over if they had to do it again. Zirin, What the Bosa/Kaepernick Double Standard Tell... |
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| 2024-11-07 | This week, we are joined by Bill Fletcher. We talk about the story, the 2024 presidential election, and what to make of it. We discuss the appeal of Trump’s revanchism, why the election turned out the way it did, and what we can do. You don’t want to m... |
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