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Edge of Sports

Racism's Persistence in Sports

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to Professor Kenneth Shropshire about a host of issues pervading sports and how today's students are taking them in.

We have ‘Choice Words’ with Chuck Modiano on whether there is an ethical team to root for in this week's Super Bowl. We also have ‘Just Stand Up’ and “Just Sit Down” awards to Maya Moore and her incredible work on criminal justice and cross country skiing of all things. All that and more on Edge of Sports!

Kenneth Shropshire
Twitter: @kenshropshire

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0:00.0

Twitter is a powerful tool if used properly.

0:05.5

So if you have something to say it, I also think that, you know, on mass, if there's ever a setting,

0:13.5

and, you know, people tried with the NFL unsuccessfully, you know, don't go.

0:18.4

If there's a league or an event, you event, organized constructively non-attendance.

0:25.1

It is the dollars to make a difference.

0:26.7

It is to deal appropriately with the sponsors that remain once something negative occurs.

0:46.8

Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.

0:47.8

I'm Dave Ziron.

0:53.1

This week we speak to author, attorney, consultant, educator, and CEO of the Global Sport Institute and Adidas, distinguished professor

0:56.5

of global support at Arizona State University, Professor Kenneth Tropshire. This guy has been

1:02.4

in this business of sports and politics just as long as any head out there. I'm so excited

1:07.5

to be able to talk to him for the first time on my show. He also wrote a book 30 years ago called In Black and White, Race and Sports in America.

1:14.5

I want to ask him about that because that book played a huge role in shaping my own thinking.

1:19.1

Also, I've got some choice words this week.

1:21.1

It's a conversation.

1:22.5

I'm talking the Super Bowl with Chuck Modiano, and we're going to have a discussion about

1:27.4

is there an ethical side to root for this year in the Super Bowl with Chuck Modiano, and we're going to have a discussion about is there an ethical

1:28.4

side to root for this year in the Super Bowl?

1:31.3

Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, is there a team to root for for the ethical

1:36.6

sports fan?

1:37.8

I've also got just stand up and just sit your ass down awards, but first, let's talk to Kenneth

1:43.0

Shropshire i'll just start i mean

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