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🗓️ 17 March 2025
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This week, we speak to Outsports journalist and Connecticut Ambush football player Karleigh Webb about her journey and insights on trans issues in sports. Also, we speak to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the long-lost days of the court general, who was the point guard. We also remember the late great John Feinstein.
Karleigh Webb
https://www.outsports.com/author/karleigh-webb/
https://www.instagram.com/rocketdyne1965/?hl=en
Zirin, “I’m Terrified”: Trans-Feminine Athletes in Their Own Words
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trans-women-athletes-forum/
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Zyron. Boy, do we have a treat for you. We are going to speak to a trailblazing, transfeminine journalist and trans feminine athlete |
0:23.8 | with the women's football alliance team, the Connecticut ambush. |
0:27.4 | But believe me, she is so much more than that. |
0:29.7 | She has decades in this profession. |
0:31.5 | She has so much to say. |
0:33.1 | And her level of insight, I mean, we've already done the interview. |
0:36.5 | I should be very clear about that |
0:38.0 | full discretion to let you know how great this is going to be. Her name is Carly Webb. |
0:43.4 | Also, I've got Aria Shirazi, the Hoops Savant, to talk about our favorite point guards of yesteryear. |
0:51.3 | Can't wait for that. But first and foremost, we are going to go to Carly Webb. |
0:56.5 | First, I got to point out a big shout out to the Nation magazine. |
1:00.1 | And I also want to let people know that ARIA and I are going to speak about a great |
1:05.6 | influence of ours growing up, and that would be sports journalist John Feinstein, |
1:10.6 | rest in peace. but let's move beyond |
1:14.1 | that right now because you're going to have a smile on your face when this is done let's talk to |
1:19.1 | her Carly Webb carly Webb thank you so much for joining us here on the edge of sports |
1:25.4 | podcast first how did I pronounce your last |
1:27.8 | name? Because I want to make sure I get that right. Because this is a big deal for me. |
1:30.7 | Oh, Dyerion, like a fire siren. Okay, Dave, Ziren, this is big for me because you're one of the people |
1:36.5 | in sports journalism who I look up to immensely. You're someone who I've read for years. I like the |
1:42.6 | fact that you bring a people first, |
1:45.8 | pro-people, pro-fan, anti-capitalist view of the sports world. |
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