Podcast / Edge of Sports / Apr 22, 2025

The End Times NBA Playoffs

On this episode of Edge of Sports, Arya Shirazi joins us again for an NBA Playoffs preview.

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

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

The End Times NBA Playoffs
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week is our long-awaited 2025 NBA preview with hoops savant Arya Shirazi. Even in difficult times, the NBA playoffs remind us of what’s good. Check out our preview.

Zirin, Can Steve Kerr Light an Anti-Trump Fire in the Sports World?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/steve-kerr-trump/

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Jalen Green, #4 of the Houston Rockets attempts a shot.

Jalen Green, #4 of the Houston Rockets attempts a shot.

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This week is our long-awaited 2025 NBA preview with hoops savant Arya Shirazi. Even in difficult times, the NBA playoffs remind us of what’s good. Check out our preview.

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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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