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Edge of Sports

Esports: The Only Game In Town

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

 This week we speak to Rod “Slasher” Breslau,  and Erin Ashley Simon, two experts on Esports. We speak to them about the impact of coronavirus on Esports, the political economy of the sport, and why traditional sports fans that aren’t on board yet should give them a look. 

We also have some ‘Choice Words’ about the activist athlete in the time of coronavirus. In addition, we have ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to Joel Embiid for both donating money to employees of Sixers while implicitly shaming team ownership to do the same, and Tilman Fertitta, Houston Rockets owner, for furloughing 40,000 employees and downplaying COVID-19 among other heinous actd. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports!

Erin Ashley Simon
Twitter: @erinasimon

Rod Breslau
Twitter: @Slasher


Zirin, Athlete Activists Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic





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0:00.0

If you're really upset that people are calling you sports,

0:03.1

if you're a huge Colin Coward fan,

0:05.3

and you subscribe to what he's saying,

0:06.9

you're just going to continue to get more bad as time goes on.

0:10.2

I will be there to document you're you being mad on the internet.

0:13.4

I will let everyone know how mad you are online.

0:16.2

I will help amplify that message to all of my followers.

0:19.9

So if you could all laugh at you,

0:21.5

and it is a great time for video games in sports.

0:25.8

You better get in now,

0:26.9

or we're just going to leave you behind.

0:28.8

And I'll just add,

0:29.7

if you're a Colin Cowherd fan and listening to this,

0:32.2

find another podcast,

0:33.4

because I don't think I want you.

0:45.6

Thank you. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.

0:47.8

I'm Dave Zyron.

0:49.0

This week we're talking e-sports.

0:51.3

And if you don't know what they are,

0:52.6

we're talking to organized,

0:55.3

multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, either as individuals or as teams.

1:01.6

Now, I know next to nothing about them, but in this time of coronavirus, these are the

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