The New DC Football Stadium Is A Bad Deal Plus Little League Magic
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Edge of Sports podcast, we are speaking with Evan Brown, a fellow with the Sports Fans Coalition, about the brewing stadium deal for the Washington Commanders and why it isn't suitable for the District.
We also speak to education activist and author (#TeachTruth) Jesse Hagopian about the Little League team he coaches, the Steelheads, and their remarkable run to the city championship.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. We have a heck of a show this week. |
| 0:15.8 | And first and foremost, thank you to the Nation magazine for sponsoring this podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | Later on in the show, we're going to hear, and you know this guy, |
| 0:23.6 | teacher, activist, educational justice, impresario, author of the new book, Teach Truth. |
| 0:31.0 | His name is Jesse Higopian. |
| 0:32.7 | We're not having Jesse on to talk about education policy. |
| 0:36.5 | What we have him on for is that he just managed one of those the most incredible |
| 0:42.7 | little league seasons I've ever heard about. |
| 0:45.7 | It's political. |
| 0:46.8 | It's beautiful. |
| 0:47.6 | It's everything we love about sports. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm really looking forward to getting Jesse on later on so we could talk all about it. |
| 0:54.5 | But first, we got an issue that we really need to discuss. |
| 0:58.9 | You know, we discuss stadium issues on this show, and this is one right in my backyard. |
| 1:04.4 | And it's one that has ramifications throughout the world of sports. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm talking, of course, about the Washington football team |
| 1:11.6 | and their efforts to get a largely publicly funded stadium |
| 1:16.6 | out of the suburbs of Maryland and back into Washington, D.C. |
| 1:22.6 | And I got someone to speak with who can really break down for us |
| 1:25.6 | why this is a bad deal. |
| 1:28.0 | He's the Senior Research Fellow with the Sports Fans Coalition. |
| 1:32.5 | He was brought on as a fellow specifically to dig into the history of publicly funded |
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