Podcast / Edge of Sports / Mar 3, 2025

Sports Under Fascism & All-Time NBA Injury What-Ifs

On this episode of Edge of Sports, a talk from 2023 on sports during authoritarianism and Arya on NBA injury what-ifs.

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

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

“Sports Under Fascism & All-Time NBA Injury What-Ifs”
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week, we have a talk I gave two years ago about the social function of sports in an authoritarian society. It rings more true today, and I wanted to share it with you all. Also, I talked to basketball savant Arya Shirazi about the injuries that changed the course of NBA history.

Zirin, Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/

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Clipper Shaun Livingston is taken off the court after getting injured at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday, February 26, 2007.
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This week, we have a talk I gave two years ago about the social function of sports in an authoritarian society. It rings more true today, and I wanted to share it with you all. Also, I talked to basketball savant Arya Shirazi about the injuries that changed the course of NBA history.

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Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

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

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byDave Zirin / The Nation

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Zirin, Jalen Hurts Deserved Better. We All Do

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jalen-hurts-eagles-blood-clot/

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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 the author of a new book, The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.

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