Introducing Good Sport

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

This week on TED Business we’re excited to introduce TED’s newest podcast, Good Sport, hosted by veteran sports producer Jody Avirgan. What can sports teach us about life – and each other? Good Sport brings you invigorating stories from on and off the field to argue that sports are as powerful and compelling a lens as any to understand the world – from what happens when you age out of a sport, to how we do or don't nurture talent, to analyzing how sports arguments have become the mode for all arguments. Good Sport launched on February 8th and you can find it anywhere you’re listening to this. TED Audio Collective+ subscribers on Apple Podcasts can hear the whole season early and ad-free.

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0:00.0	Every big life lesson I've learned, how to channel my competitive fire, how to be a
0:07.9	supportive teammate or partner, how to focus on what I can control and try to let go
0:13.8	of what I can't.
0:16.1	All of that I've learned through sports.
0:20.6	My name is Jody Avergan and I'm the host of a new show called Good Sport.
0:26.1	That's a podcast about how sports can connect us with one another.
0:29.7	Help us understand the world around us.
0:32.3	Help us improve our...
0:34.1	Oh my God, did we make a self-help podcast?
0:38.9	Well kind of, because I do think sports can help and this season at least they've helped
0:44.5	me answer some questions I've had for a long, long time.
0:48.2	Like for instance, why does it feel like every new stadium that gets built leaves people
0:52.9	feeling like they got fleeced?
0:55.1	Well, it's because those deals are negotiated by people who talk like this.
1:00.0	What should we do here ethically, never ever comes up when you're negotiating a stadium
1:05.0	deal?
1:06.0	Another question we get into, why certain places are really good at producing professional
1:10.8	athletes and what these hotbeds can teach us about giving people a fair shot?
1:16.3	The baseline talent has to be there and then we go from there and yes, after that point
1:21.6	we are talking about nurturing, we are talking about belief.
1:26.0	Before I took on this show, I hosted the 538 Politics Podcast and 30 for 30 at ESPN.
1:31.8	So I've thought a lot about how sports and politics mirror each other.
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