S.L. Price, on his new book, The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Episode 506 of the Sports Media Podcast features S.L. Price, the longtime Sports Illustrated writer who has a new book out: "The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse." The book comes out May 20. In this podcast, Price discusses why he wrote the book; where the sport sits today in America; how the Duke rape case and the murder of Yeardley Love still resonates and reinforces the sport’s elite “laxbro” image; the tie between Wall Street and finance and lacrosse; where the growth of women's lacrosse sit as far the overall growth of the sport; lacrosse sixes will be one of five new sports set to feature at the L.A. 2028 Olympic Games; lacrosse as part of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy identity; the Haudenosaunee Confederacy attempts to compete in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics under their own flag and where it stands with them with the IOC; why people spoke to him, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.6	Gambleaware.org Welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:43.9	I'm your host Richard Deich.
0:44.7	My producer's Patrick Antonetti.
0:46.8	One guest on this episode, S.L. Price, I mean, his real name is Scott Price, but for the purposes of this interview, I'll refer to his august writing name.
0:55.7	S.L. Price was my longtime colleague at Sports Illustrated. We worked together for many, many years, particularly on tennis and at the Olympics, one of the great writers I worked with at Sports Illustrated.
1:08.8	He has a new book out out which has gotten phenomenal reviews so
1:14.2	far. The American Game, Colon, History and Hope in the Country of La Crosse, I would say it's the
1:21.7	most comprehensive examination of modern lacrosse that's ever been written. And there is an excerpt
1:27.3	in the New York Times
1:28.1	magazine this week where the subject is, why won't the IOC, at least at this point, let
1:34.9	indigenous North American teams compete in the Olympics. We'll get into that a little bit.
1:41.7	Scott's book comes out on May 20th, and again, the American
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