Racism and the College Athlete

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week we talked to Derek Silva, co-author of an article in the Guardian about racial epithets, college athletics, and what occurred at BYU when Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson faced racist taunts and was subsequently told by BYU officials that she did not in fact hear them.

We also have ‘Choice Words’ about the way that the media is covering Aaron Judge’s home run chase and the erasure of Barry Lamar Bonds. We also have a ‘Just Stand Up’ and 'Just Sit Down’ award to Cherelle Griner for courageously coming forward and talking about the plight of Brittney Griner in Russia and Draymond Green for an act of inexcusable violence. All this and more on this week’s show!

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Zirin, Aaron Judge Is Great—but Don’t Erase Barry Bonds

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0:00.0	We are back. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. So psyched to be back. We've had to take a few weeks off, recharge the batteries, get some computers
0:22.5	fixed, but we are back. And so excited to have with us as a guest, Derek Silva, who's the co-author
0:30.6	of the forthcoming book, The End of College Football, and he's a professor of sociology
0:36.3	at King's University College, and he co-hosts
0:39.5	the end of sport podcast.
0:42.9	I'll tell you something.
0:44.0	I wanted to talk to Derek because he co-wrote a story with Nathan Kalman Lamb and Johanna
0:49.7	Melis called We Told You So for Black athletes, racism from college fans is a familiar story.
0:58.0	And it takes on BYU, which has been in the news a great deal recently,
1:02.8	around volleyball player Rachel Richardson's contention that she was called racial slurs.
1:09.3	And then BYU looking like they were, you know, covering up
1:12.5	faster than a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1970s and making sure that nobody talked about
1:18.3	it anymore.
1:19.6	Yeah, that joke did not land.
1:21.6	But that's okay.
1:23.3	We're going to keep on going right here.
1:25.2	Also, I've got some serious, serious, serious choice words about Aaron Judge and the home run record, Barry Bonds.
1:36.3	I also got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards.
1:39.4	But first and foremost, let's talk to Derek Silver.
1:46.8	Derek, how you doing, sir?
1:49.1	I'm really good.
1:50.1	Happy to be here.
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