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How Ireland Views the NFL & Mumia’s Lawyer Speaks

Noelle Hanrahan, Mumia Abu Jamal’s attorney, joins Edge of Sports.

Dave Zirin

September 26, 2025

A rally for Mumia Abu Jamal in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 12, 2018. (Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Edge of Sports

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

How Ireland Views the NFL & Mumia’s Lawyer Speaks
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week on the Edge of Sports podcast, we talk to Noelle Hanrahan, founder and director of Prison Radio, as well as attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who joins the show. We discuss several different topics, ranging from Philadelphia and Larry Krasner to recent developments regarding Mumia Abu Jamal and even local sports radio. 

Zirin, The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nfl-trump-dublin-ireland-steelers-vikings/

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This week on the Edge of Sports podcast, we talk to Noelle Hanrahan, founder and director of Prison Radio, as well as attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who joins the sho. We discuss several different topics, ranging from Philadelphia and District Attorney Larry Krasner to recent developments regarding Abu-Jamal and even local sports radio. 

Zirin’s latest: The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland

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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 ZirinDave 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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