Sports In Society
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Sports In Society
The world of sports is a great window into our broader society. For better or worse, all our contributors are lifelong sports fans. Being such fans and caring deeply about the world we live in, we use sports as a way to better understand society and use society as a way to better understand sports.
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Positive Sports Takeaways From Covid Times
We start this week talking about the London Marathon and our disappointment in the NBA Finals. It is indeed still a strange sports world! We dig into...
What to do with ignorance?
As usual, we start off by talking about what we are paying attention to. The sports world just keeps getting more crazy! Then we move into a conversat...
Cycling Steals the Show (Literally!)
This week we start off intending to have a normal show, but we wound up just talking about Pogacar's transcendent performance at the Tour de France. I...
Catching Up On An Eventful Summer
This week we dive right into all that has been going on recently. First, of course, we talk about the NBA strike and the complicated nature of everyth...
Exploring The World Of Disc Golf
This week, we start off with a discussion of the disaster of college football and the interesting ways smaller clubs are staying relevant. Then we mov...
Youthful Energy and Experienced Professionalism: Decoding How We Talk About Sports
This week we start off talking about golf, the NBA and how we watch sports. Why do we prefer a slightly less polished production? Then we move into a...
How Does It Feel To Watch The New NBA?
This week we start off talking about the proliferation of violence on the ESPN homepage and the absurdity of MLB trying to make things work. Then we d...
Corruption in Sports: Is it inevitable?
This week we start off trying to be a bit positive with some spotlights for good stuff. We mention that the NBA, unsurprisingly, seems to be coming ba...
For Good or Ill: Corporate Social Responsibility & Sports
This week we start out talking a bit about soccer and the rise of Pulisic. Then we move into a conversation about golf and divergent visions of how it...
What Would You Do To The MLS?
This week we start off with a discussion of Woj going off and how much we should be talking about sports right now. It's a strange time and we see bot...
Sunderland: A Sad Story Makes An Interesting Show
This week we starting off talking UCLA and Under Armour and the coming disastrous restarts. We spend a bit of time on controversy in the disc golf wor...
How Do Sports Impact Our Thinking About Aging?
This week we start off talking about the complete absurdity of college sports, the ways we expect the NBA to fail in its bid to restart and Djokovic b...
Player's Unions in an Unprecedented Time
We missed you all last week! We're back this week with a discussion of how Covid is changing the sports landscape with each passing day. Every week se...
Team Dynamics: What happens to a team when politics come up?
This week we start off declaring that Black Lives Matter and that we endeavoring to educate ourselves and act in the ways most appropriate. Then we mo...
Why Are Athletes So Angry?
This week we start out with a discussion of the golf match featuring Tiger, Phil, Brady and Manning. It was a strange event and we have a lot of feeli...
Why Do They Do It?: Cheating in Amateur Sports
This week we welcome special guest Sam Lev back to the show. He joins us as we start off with a discussion of golf in quarantine and what the NBA is t...
Growing Up On Baseball (and Basketball) Cards
This week we start by discussing the strange reality of the Bundesliga. Is this what we should expect from sports without fans? We also talk about bas...
5 Rules We'd Like To See Change Or Implemented
This week we start by discussing how we are coping without sports. We also talk about reopening and what golf could do. Then we move into a discussion...
When Sports Get Political: 1980 Olympic Boycott
This week we start by noting that the sports world was quite boring this week. Nothing grabbed our attention and maybe that's a good thing. Then we mo...
What does it mean to be a fan these days?
This week we start with an exciting new intro. Thanks Trad!
Then we move into a discussion about this past week's developments. Ky...
Jordan: More Than A Basketball Player
This week we start off talking about how there might be some positive implications of limiting sports activity. We are humanizing our athletes and see...
Film Review: All For One - Cycling Done Right
We start off bemoaning the events that seem to be leading to Sports Illustrated quickly losing all of its status so quickly due to poor management. Th...
Looking Back to Learn: Astros Versus Black Sox
We start this week with our weekly look at the sports world on Covid-19. This includes a discussion of Trump's intervention, NBA stars playing horse a...
Film Review: Fire in Babylon - Cricket Against Colonialism
We start by looking back again at this past week in a new landscape. This includes a look at the NFL doing NFL things and auto racing turning to eSpor...
Looking Back To Learn: Jackie Robinson
This week we again start looking at how Covid-19 is impacting the sports world. The move to online gaming and the fact that chess keeps going is quite...
Looking Back to Learn: Mount Everest
This week we start by looking at our first week without sports. It is an unprecedented occurrence and we will be tracking it as we look to future week...
State of the MLS: Thriving or Surviving?
This week we start out talking about women in sports and what a great time of year it is for the sports we love. Then we get into a discussion of what...
Coronavirus and Sports: What To Expect?
This week we start off by talking about stardom and the brutal (and stupid) world of bare knuckle boxing. Then we dig into our main topic of how to un...
Athletes & Mental Health: Is it getting better?
This week we start off by talking about Man City's predicament and the way athletes isolate themselves. Then we move into a discussion of about the me...
Athletes in Business: Is this new?
This week we start off talking about rugby and how we understand it. Then we talk a bit about youth sports before getting to our main topic. This week...
Nike Shoe Controversy: What it tells us about the state of technology in sports
This week we start by analyzing our thoughts about Kobe and how we understand his tragic death and ongoing legacy. From there, we go into a discussion...
Climate Change & Sports: A Missed Opportunity?
We're back with a discussion of how climate change and sports interact. How is climate change impacting the sports we love? How is our love of sports...
Fandom: The Pleasure and Moral Responsibility (w/ Steve Almond)
This week we are honored to joined by Steve Almond for a discussion of fandom and how we understand modern sports. What does the commodification of sp...
New Year, New Sports!: Our Sporting Resolutions
This week we are back and ready to dig into what we hope to do with regards to sports this year. In a shocker, we both want to explore new and differe...
Special Episode: What do we make of the NBA - China Situation
We're back for a special episode exploring just what to make of the NBA's recent issues in China. It touches so many important issues we just couldn't...
The State of Sports Media: Bleacher Report
This week we dig into one of the more social media savvy sources around, Barstool Sports. This site seems to growing like crazy. Further, they are lea...
State of Sports Media: Barstool Sports
This week we dig into one of the more controversial sports media sources, Barstool Sports. This blog site unabashedly caters to frat boys & young men...
The State of Sports Media: The Athletic
(FYI: We had some technical difficulties and lost half of this week's episode. Sorry!)
This week we dig into the most exciting spo...
State of Sports Media: The Ringer
This week we dig into Bill Simmons's project, The Ringer. This website and podcast network bridge the divide between sports and pop culture. They also...
The State of Sports Media: The Guardian
Second in our The State of Sports Media Series!
The Guardian is one of our favorite news sources in general and their sports cover...