Podcast / Edge of Sports / Jan 27, 2025

Trans Athletes Fight Back, and the Golden Age of NBA Centers

On this episode of Edge of Sports, we have two guests, Harrison Browne and Arya Shirazi, talking about trans athletes and the golden era of NBA centers.

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

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

Trans Athletes Fight Back and The Golden Age of NBA Centers
byDave Zirin / The Nation

We have two guests, Harrison Browne, and Arya Shirazi, talking about trans athletes and the golden era of NBA centers.

This week, we speak to Harrison Browne, the first transgender pro hockey player, about a new book he wrote with his journalist sister Rachel Browne, Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes, about how their stories are a key to defending their rights in the face of a fascist movement aimed at their elimination from public life. Also, we speak to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the golden age of NBA centers. At least, I think it’s the Golden Age. 1985-1995! 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780979/let-us-play-by-harrison-browne-and-rachel-browne/

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https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/eos-012325/

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This week, we speak to Harrison Browne, the first transgender pro hockey player, about a new book he wrote with his journalist sister Rachel Browne, Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes, about how their stories are key to defending their rights in the face of a fascist movement aimed at their elimination from public life.

Also, we speak to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the golden age of NBA centers. At least, I think it’s the Golden Age: 1985–95!

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

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

How Lacrosse and Boxing Explain The USA
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week, we speak to Scott Price, author of the new book  The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse. I interview Scott alongside Edge of Sports Lacrosse correspondent Vin Intondi. Also, I speak to Rudy Mondragón, for part II of our discussion about the new book Rings of Dissent: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion.

Zirin, Above All, the NBA Will Protect the Gambling Industry

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nba-gambling-trump/

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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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