Edge of Sports Podcast Thu, 04 Dec 2014
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are about to break the surly ponds of gravity and punch the face of God. |
| 0:07.3 | Left Jab Productions present Edge of Sports Radio, where sports and politics collage. |
| 0:18.0 | And now your host, Dave Zarin. |
| 0:21.0 | The Schmada Kid. |
| 0:23.3 | At the sports radio with Dave Ziren, I did not boom today. |
| 0:28.0 | This has been a week of absolutely heartbreaking news across this country. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm joined by the coach, Kevin McNutt. |
| 0:37.1 | How are you doing, coach? Doing well, brother. Doing well. I mean joined by the coach, Kevin McNutt. How are you doing, Coach? |
| 0:37.9 | Doing well, brother, doing well. |
| 0:39.3 | I mean, first of all, as we're recording this show, I personally, as a New Yorker and as a human being, |
| 0:46.9 | I'm in a state of anger after a grand jury in Staten Island made clear what a grand jury in |
| 0:53.1 | Ferguson made clear. |
| 0:54.8 | And that's that black lives do not matter in this criminal justice system. |
| 0:59.2 | You know, Langston Hughes once said, |
| 1:02.0 | Justice is a blind goddess, |
| 1:04.2 | is a thing to which we black are wise. |
| 1:06.7 | Her bandage hides two festering sores where once perhaps were eyes. |
| 1:12.0 | And that's how I'm feeling. |
| 1:13.5 | So on this show, after this break coach, I think one thing that it might be, what I'd like to do is shut my own mouth and just hear your own thoughts about the last couple weeks. |
| 1:23.8 | I mean, since we lasted a show, it seems like not two weeks, but two lifetimes ago |
| 1:27.8 | with Ferguson, Staten Island, Michael Brown, Eric Garner. And we also are later in the show going to talk |
| 1:34.7 | to Jamila King from Colorline. She's in New York. And obviously, there's so much sports and |
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