Death Row Survivor Kenny Collins & Why We Should Boycott the World Cup
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week, we have an exclusive interview with Kenny Collins, an innocent man who survived 17 unjust years on Maryland's death row and now, at long last, will be leaving prison behind. Also, I have some choice words about why the world must boycott the World Cup.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast brought to you by the Nation magazine. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Dave Ziren. |
| 0:16.2 | We have an extremely special show for you this week. |
| 0:18.6 | I am going to be speaking to Kenny Collins, who spent |
| 0:22.6 | 17 years on Maryland's death row and is now looking for the first time in decades at the |
| 0:30.3 | probability, not possibility, of breathing free. You want to hear what Kenny has to say. |
| 0:37.0 | It was great to do this interview. |
| 0:39.3 | Also, though, we're going to start with something else because of the immediacy of the political |
| 0:45.3 | moment. |
| 0:46.3 | In the wake of the killing of Alex Pretty in Minneapolis, there are finally rumbles about |
| 0:52.3 | the world, the world, boycotting the 2026 World Cup. |
| 0:59.3 | And I'm going to speak about that. |
| 1:01.3 | So let's get started with me talking about the World Cup. |
| 1:04.3 | And then we're going to talk to the one and only Kenny Collins. |
| 1:11.6 | As promised, first some words about the World Cup. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay, look, this week a leading German soccer official named Okay Gottlik |
| 1:19.6 | said that the time has come to consider the unthinkable and unprecedented, |
| 1:25.6 | a boycott of the World Cup in protest of the fascist marauding and exhausting military threats of Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:34.3 | The most why- let me start that over. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay, look, this week a leading German soccer official, Okay Gottlik, said that the time has come to consider the unthinkable |
| 1:46.2 | and the unprecedented, a boycott of the World Cup in protest of the fascist marauding and |
| 1:53.9 | exhausting military threats of Donald J. Trump. |
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