Podcast / Edge of Sports / Mar 17, 2025

Journalist and Trans Athlete Karleigh Webb & Great Point Guards of Yesteryear

On this week’s episode of Edge of Sports, Karleigh Webb and Arya Shirazi join the show.

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

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

Journalist and Trans Athlete Karleigh Webb & Great Point Guards of Yesteryear
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week, we speak to Outsports journalist and Connecticut Ambush football player Karleigh Webb about her journey and insights on trans issues in sports. Also, we speak to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the long-lost days of the court general, who was the point guard. We also remember the late great John Feinstein. 

Karleigh Webb

https://www.outsports.com/author/karleigh-webb/

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Zirin, “I’m Terrified”: Trans-Feminine Athletes in Their Own Words

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trans-women-athletes-forum/

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U.S. President Donald Trump joined by cis-women athletes, signing the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in the East Room at the White House, on February 5, 2025.

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This week’s episode of Edge of Sports, we speak to Outsports journalist and Connecticut Ambush football player Karleigh Webb about her journey and insights on trans issues in sports.

Also on this episode, we speak to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the long-lost days of the court general, who was the point guard. We also remember the late great John Feinstein.

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Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

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

Did Trump Doom the US Men at the World Cup? / Edge of Sports
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week we speak to sports journalist and author Leander Schaerlaeckens. He has covered the US Men's National team at four World Cups and is the author of the terrific new book The Long Game U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts

We also talk to Dr. Vincent Intondi, Executive Director of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, about how their organization is using the World Cup to reach people politically. 

Zirin, Trump Is Trying to Rig the World Cup

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-usmnt-belgium-balogun-fifa/

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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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