Podcast / Edge of Sports / Feb 17, 2025

The Sports Doc We’ve Been Waiting for, and the NBA at the All-Star Break

On this episode of Edge of Sports, documentarians talk about their important project and Arya talks NBA season.

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin

The Sports Doc We’ve Been Waiting For And the NBA at the All-Star Break
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week we speak to executive producer Arif Khatib and director Steven C. Bernier about their new documentary, Because They Believed: Minority Athletic Trailblazers Who Broke through The Racial Divide. The film is available on all streaming platforms and it's the documentary sports and politics lovers have been waiting for. Also, we talk to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about where this NBA season is going after a series of shocking trades. 

Zirin, How the “Subversive Genius” of Kendrick Lamar Sent Trump Home a Loser

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/super-bowl-kendrick-lamar-halftime-eagles-trump/

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(Because They Believed)

On this week’s episode of Edge of Sports, we speak to executive producer Arif Khatib and director Steven C. Bernier about their new documentary, Because They Believed: Minority Athletic Trailblazers Who Broke through The Racial Divide. The film is available on all streaming platforms and it’s the documentary that sports and politics lovers have been waiting for. Also, we talk to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about where this NBA season is going after a series of shocking trades.

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin

How Rev. Jesse Jackson Understood Sports & a Winter Olympics Round-up
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week, we speak with author Bijan Bayne about the late Rev. Jesse Jackson's relationship with the sports world. We also speak to sports journalist Frankie de la Cretaz about the off-field dramas surrounding the 2026 Winter Olympics

Zirin, The NFL Owners and Olympic Organizers in Epstein’s Inbox

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nfl-owners-casey-wasserman-epstein-files/

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Dave Zirin

Dave 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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