A Different Perspective on the NFL’s Robert Kraft

A Different Perspective on the NFL’s Robert Kraft

A Different Perspective on the NFL’s Robert Kraft

Melissa Gira Grant joins the show to talk about the Patriots owner and the broader issue of human sex trafficking.

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This week we speak to Melissa Gira Grant, author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, about Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s legal charges and the agendas that lurk behind charges of “human sex trafficking.”

We also have Choice Words about mental health in the NBA and we got Just Stand Up”awards for the US women’s soccer team union and Kareem Abdul Jabbar as well as a Just Sit Down award to NBA referees. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports Podcast!

Melissa Gira Grant
Twitter: @melissagira
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

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Does the NBA Have a Mental-Health Crisis on Its Hands?

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Dave ZirinDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is the author of a new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.


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