The Sports World Tackles the Coronavirus

The Sports World Tackles the Coronavirus

The Brooklyn Nets’ Wilson Chandler joins the show to talk about the coronavirus and his career.

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This week we speak to NBA veteran Wilson Chandler about how he is maintaining amid the pandemic as well as his experience playing on basketball’s biggest stage, his stint in China, and the rhetoric of Donald Trump.

We also have some Choice Words about the coronavirus and athletes. In addition, we have Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards to Jeremy Lin for calling out Trump for racist rhetoric and the IOC for dragging their feet on doing the right thing and canceling the 2020 Olympic games. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports!

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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 also the coproducer and writer of the new documentary Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL.


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