Next Week: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This week, Edge of Sports is traveling to LA to interview Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Instead of taking the week off, Dave Zirin is dropping into your podcast feed to call for questions and give listeners a window into his thought process going into this once-in-a-lifetime interview. Dave also reads his current column from The Nation about Lebron James and the competing opinions about his lack of comment after Tamir Rice’s police killers scandalously avoided indictment. Finally, the ‘Just Stand Up’ award goes to Baltimore-based activist Tariq Touré who started this conversation by thinking up the hashtag #NoJusticeNoLeBron.--Column: “The Tactical Intelligence of #NoJusticeNoLeBron” http://www.thenation.com/article/the-tactical-intelligence-of-nojusticenolebron/Email Dave at [email protected], tweet http://twitter.com/edgeofsports, and find all the previous episodes at http://edgeofsportspodcast.com including last week’s look back at our best interviews of 2015.Music: ‘Cadillac’ by Kayloo & Silo [ https://soundcloud.com/kayloo-sound | https://soundcloud.com/silo-beats ]‘Neon Nightriders’ by Jasper Staal [ https://soundcloud.com/jasperstaal ] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:56.1	Hey, this is Dave Zyron. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. This week, we are on the road
1:00.3	heading from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles to ask Kareem.
1:20.6	Primarily, we are going to focus on why it is now.
1:24.6	At age 68, he has become such an important and vibrant political voice.
1:29.2	His columns about U.S. politics going viral.
1:32.9	Now, Kareem was a very outspoken activist athlete in his late teens and early 20s,
1:37.4	and now he's an outspoken activist athlete in his late 60s.
1:41.3	We're going to talk to Kareem about what happened to the decades in between
1:45.5	and why he's chosen right now to speak out. In addition, we're going to ask him your questions as
1:51.1	well. I already put this up on Facebook. Please go there. The Facebook is facebook.com slash edge of
1:56.7	sports. Put down the question you want to ask Kareem. I already got some great ones here.
2:01.4	Just here's an idea of some of the things that we're going to ask Kareem. We're going to ask
2:04.6	him everything from what J.D. Tucker said, which is, does he wish he did anything different
2:09.6	as an activist athlete? To Dan Colbert, who wanted to know to professional sports do more harm
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