Frankie de la Cretaz joins Edge of Sports to talk about what’s happening in the WNBA right now.
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Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
This week we speak to Frankie de la Cretaz of the indispensable website “Out of Your League,” which looks at the intersection of sports and gender, about Sophia Cunningham, ugly transphobia, and why the WNBA is tolerating hate rallies at their games.
Also, I have Choice Words about lessons from the life of Howard Zinn
Zirin, Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/howard-zinn-red-scare-american-veterans/
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This week we speak to Frankie de la Cretaz of the indispensable website Out of Your League, which looks at the intersection of sports and gender, about Sophia Cunningham, ugly transphobia, and why the WNBA is tolerating hate rallies at their games.
Also, I have Choice Words about lessons from the life of Howard Zinn
Read Zirin’s “Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again.”
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In Part 6 of our series, Basketball Butterfly Effect, Arya Shirazi joins the show again to discuss the 2009 NBA draft and the Knicks coming close to getting Davidson sharpshooter Steph Curry, the most revolutionary player of his generation. You don’t want to miss this episode!
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Dave ZirinDave 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.