Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Juliet Macur, a Sports of the Times columnist at The New York Times, chats with David about her father's amazing journey from a Nazi concentration camp to New Jersey, her widely acclaimed book on Lance Armstrong's rise and fall, and hot-button issues such as the NFL's concussion crisis, the recent accusations of match-fixing in tennis, and the FIFA corruption scandal. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:09.1	And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, the Act Spiles with your host, David Axelrod.
0:15.1	Music
0:22.1	Like a lot of people in politics, I love sports.
0:25.9	And sometimes sports is the escape that I take when politics encroaches on me.
0:32.9	But today, the politics of sports is very much in the news.
0:38.4	And nobody covers it with greater incisiveness than Juliet McCurr, of the New York Times.
0:44.0	Juliet is a fellow at the Institute of Politics this winter.
0:49.1	And I sat down with her the other day to talk about doping and FIFA and concussions
0:55.7	in the NFL.
0:57.6	And all the things that have made sports, not a back of the newspaper story, but a front
1:02.6	of the newspaper story.
1:03.6	Music
1:19.6	Juliet, let me start with the obvious question which either of us can answer.
1:25.3	And that is, this is an institute of politics.
1:31.3	This is a show that primarily focuses on politics.
1:35.5	You're a sports writer.
1:38.6	You're a peculiar kind of sports writer.
1:40.5	But what the hell are you doing here?
1:42.4	I think it's the first question.
1:44.4	No, it's definitely a compliment.
1:47.7	As people will discover during the course of this conversation, I think you're a terrific
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