The World Cup & Remembering John McNamara

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week we speak to Duke University professor and author of The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer, Laurent DuBois about the latest in the World Cup. Later in the show, we speak to Sporting News columnist David Steele about his longtime friend, sportswriter John McNamara, who was killed in the mass shooting at the Capitol Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. We also got Choice Words about Hockey’s first black player, William O’Ree getting inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame, and more! Laurent Dubois Twitter: @Soccerpolitics The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer David Steele Twitter: @David_C_Steele Sporting News Column Zirin, Willie O’Ree at Long Last Makes the NHL Hall of Fame https://www.thenation.com/article/willie-oree-long-last-makes-nhl-hall-fame/ — 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 | Selfish - Slum Village Feat. Kanye West | Ta Fête - Stromae | Good To You - Talib Kweli | Da Game Been Good To Me - UGK | Dey Know - Shawty Lo | Tonight’s Da Night - Redman I The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	the form of soccer, I think, in a sense, most powerfully gives us something to talk about,
0:04.8	right? It allows us to kind of narrate games and understand games as experiences that really
0:09.6	reflect a very wide range of human emotions, you know, everything from the frustration with
0:14.1	certain, you know, theatricality of the game to the beauty of the game. And I'm not saying those
0:18.9	things are not present in other sports, but soccer definitely
0:21.1	has a very peculiar form, you know, and to watch it, I think, you know, and to watch it and really
0:26.5	enjoy it and love it, it's useful to kind of think about that form and appreciate kind of all its
0:31.1	dimensions.
0:42.2	Welcome to the Edge of sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.
0:48.2	This week we speak to Lauren Dubois, author of the book The Language of the Game, How to Understand Soccer.
0:53.0	I wonder what we're going to be speaking to him about. Maybe the World Cup.
0:58.6	I've also got some choice words about a long overdue Hall of Fame entry, a just-stand-up award for an absolute legend. And lastly, we have a tribute to John McNamara, the sports
1:04.6	writer who was killed in the mass shooting at the Capitol Gazette. I'll be speaking to his
1:09.1	friend, the great sports writer David Steele.
1:11.7	But first, to start off the show, let's talk to Laurent Dubois.
1:21.8	Laurent Dubois, first and foremost, please tell us where you are and what you're doing.
1:27.7	Well, I'm, ironically enough, I'm in Italy watching the France-Argentina game.
1:33.8	I'm teaching this week in Bologna at the university here, but excited about this matchup here
1:40.9	between France and Argentina.
1:42.2	And I'm heading to France in a couple days where I'll
1:44.9	spend the rest of the World Cup there. So, hoping for a win tonight. Well, I think that most people
1:50.7	expect that, certainly. So if any goals are scored during the course of this interview,
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