“In The Bubble”: How COVID-19 is Changing Sports

Skimm This

theSkimm

News

4.5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Now that you’ve made it through your Netflix queue, you might be wondering when sports are coming back. After sports leagues postponed their seasons back in March, some - like the National Women’s Soccer League - are stepping back onto the field for the first time. We’ll break down the efforts and challenges in keeping players safe. And talk to one league that’s knocking it out of the park: the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (aka: roller derby.) Also, in case you missed it: the Chinese government has taken its boldest step yet in eliminating freedoms of Hong Kong residents. We’ll tell you how this latest move by China has a global impact. And finally, we’re talking about getting into 'good trouble.' As in the new documentary "John Lewis: Good Trouble." The film’s producer Erika Alexander shared how lessons from Lewis’s life fighting for social justice starting in the 1960s are just as relevant to social movements today. On this episode, you’ll hear from: Kelley O’Hara, two-time World Cup champion, Utah Royals FC defender and member of the US Women's National Team, and host of the new podcast, Just Women’s Sports Dr. Jonathan Kim, chief of sports cardiology in the division of cardiology at Emory University Erica Vanstone, Executive Director of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Erika Alexander, producer of "John Lewis: Good Trouble" Let us know what questions you have about what’s going on in the news right now. Email us at audio@theskimm.com or call and leave us a voicemail at: 646-461-6370. You might hear your message on the show. If you want to add theSkimm to your daily routine, sign-up for our free newsletter the Daily Skimm. It’s everything you need to know to start your day, right in your inbox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Usually, this time of year, we'd be right smack dab in the middle of baseball season.
0:07.0	My ball, shallow left field.
0:10.4	That's gone.
0:11.4	It's again, it's a one run game, and that ball is drilled.
0:15.4	Unfortunately, this year, things are a lot different.
0:18.6	Coronavirus is impacting the sports world.
0:21.2	Wimbledon, one of the most important tennis tournaments in the world, will not be played
0:26.7	this year.
0:27.7	The baseball announcing a stop to spring training.
0:30.2	The Division I men and women's basketball championship tournaments, those are done, they
0:34.3	are not going to happen.
0:36.4	For the first time in a long time, America has had to experience a summer with a lot less
0:41.2	action.
0:42.3	But now, some athletes are starting to tiptoe their way back onto the field and the court.
0:48.3	So today we're going to break down what that actually looks like and what the concerns
0:52.3	are.
0:53.3	Stay with us.
0:57.7	This episode is brought to you by Oscar Meyer Natural.
1:09.1	It was mid-March of this year when businesses around the US started closing and states started
1:14.0	giving stay-at-home orders.
1:16.3	Sports leagues across the country decided they had to follow suit.
1:21.3	When a Utah Jazz basketball player tested positive for COVID-19, the NBA suspended all
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from theSkimm, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of theSkimm and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.