Tyreek Hill and Player Policing, NBA Off-Season Intrigues Tyreek Hill and Player Policing, NBA Off-Season Intrigues
On this episode of Edge of Sports, Arya Shirazi joins the pod to talk upcoming NBA season and Tyreek Hill.
Sep 13, 2024 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
Police Violence, Tyreek Hill, and the NFL Owners Who Bankroll Brutality Police Violence, Tyreek Hill, and the NFL Owners Who Bankroll Brutality
The NFL does not cross the police. The NFL partners with the police.
Sep 9, 2024 / Dave Zirin
The Dark Side of the Democratic Party’s Embrace of Football The Dark Side of the Democratic Party’s Embrace of Football
The hypermasculinity and violence of football connects to Kamala Harris’s bellicose convention speech. It could repel young voters.
Aug 26, 2024 / Dave Zirin
LeBron, Steph, Wemby, and the Greatest Olympic Basketball Game of All Time LeBron, Steph, Wemby, and the Greatest Olympic Basketball Game of All Time
On this episode of Edge Of Sports, Arya Shirazi joins the pod to talk Olympic basketball.
Aug 19, 2024 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
What Was the Paris Olympics? What Was the Paris Olympics?
The Olympic Games supercharge the problems that already exist in a host city. We saw that in Paris—but what will happen in LA?
Aug 15, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
The Man Using Sports to Fight Israeli War Crimes The Man Using Sports to Fight Israeli War Crimes
Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, says sports can be a nonviolent tool to resist occupation.
Aug 13, 2024 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
The Paris Olympics Has Launched a War on the Poor The Paris Olympics Has Launched a War on the Poor
Paris will almost certainly be remembered as a successful Olympic site. Such recollections, however, will leave out those who suffered under its weight.
Aug 9, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
We Must Defend Imane Khelif We Must Defend Imane Khelif
Transphobia also hurts cisgender women like the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif who don’t conform to a narrow, Eurocentric vision of womanhood.
Aug 5, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
Meet Fadi Deeb: Gaza’s Paralympian Is Showing the World That Palestine Still Lives Meet Fadi Deeb: Gaza’s Paralympian Is Showing the World That Palestine Still Lives
The shot-putter is the only competitor in the Palestinian Olympic delegation from Gaza.
Aug 2, 2024 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon
The omnipresent high-tech surveillance introduced for the Games normalizes incursions on civil liberties.
Jul 31, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin