Sports Can Unlearn Toxic Masculinity

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week we speak to Joe Ehrmann, former NFL Player and founder of Inside Out Coaching: How Sports Can Change Lives. Also, I speak about the solidarity statement we organized to support Seattle Seahawk Michael Bennett, in his efforts to challenge the violence and racial profiling of the Las Vegas police; a solidarity statement that brought together people from Angela Davis to Colin Kaepernick.We have Just Stand Up for friend of the program, Jemele Hill, after she tweeted out truths about No. 45...and then was subsequently scolded by her employer. ESPN, you can Just Sit Down. As always, we've got your Kaepernick Watch -- can you believe that we have something nice to say about Stephen A. Smith? You've gotta hear this!Joe Ehrmann, Former NFL Lineman Defensive LinemanFounder, InSideOut InitiativeZirin, The Las Vegas Police Union Goes in the Gutter to Attack Michael Bennetthttps://www.thenation.com/article/the-las-vegas-police-union-goes-in-the-gutter-to-attack-michael-bennett/—http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)—Music: Eye Examination - Del The Funky Homosapien | Chief Don't Run - Jidenna | Pull Up - Wiz Khalifa Ft. Lil Uzi Vert | My Way - Calvin Harris | Cot Damn - Clipse | Passin' Me By - The Pharcyde | Break 'Em Off Somethin' - UGK | Ambitions Az a Ridah - Tupac | The Wire Outro Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	You know, you look at the youth sports industry today.
0:02.3	That's a $15 billion industry.
0:05.0	That's for adults run by adults, four adults with the expense of kids.
0:09.2	The professionalization of youth sports is really problematic in this country.
0:14.4	And, boy, then, you've got the professionalization of college sports
0:19.0	and certainly professional sports, and it's all squeezing in the life of young people.
0:34.7	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.
0:39.3	This week, we speak to Joe Erman, a former National Football League defensive lineman,
0:44.4	originally drafted as the 10th pick in the first round of the 1973 NFL draft out of Syracuse,
0:49.5	but that's not what we're going to talk to him about.
0:51.9	Joe Erman has become the leading voice in this country who is rethinking and reteaching
0:57.0	how to coach this new generation of people.
1:01.0	He's the author of Inside Out coaching, how sports can transform lives.
1:05.5	You can check him out at Coachforamerica.com.
1:07.9	We are so honored to have him on the show, Joe Ehrman.
1:18.2	So, Joe, I think of your work as the work of someone who's trying to claim what is best about sports.
1:25.8	Is that accurate? Is that the best way to describe what you do?
1:30.2	Yeah, it's become my life work for sure.
1:32.7	I think we need to reclaim the transformative power of sports,
1:36.3	both on a societal level and an individual level.
1:40.0	My current work really is reclaiming the educational value of sports.
1:44.5	Why do we even have sports connected to our educational system if they're not going to be education-based?
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