The Risks of Reopening Sports

The Risks of Reopening Sports

Infectious disease expert Dr. Céline Gounder joins the show to talk about the push to reopen sports.

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This week we talk to CNN medical expert and NYU professor Dr. Céline Gounder about Covid-19. We talk to Dr. Gounder about the push to reopen sports, how that undertaking could work, and how the nation’s leadership is dealing with the pandemic.

We also have some Choice Words about the NFL’s steadfast plans to reopen this fall, as well as the Trump administration’s ineptitude. In addition, we have Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards to the athletes that signed a letter calling for justice on behalf of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed by white vigilantes in Georgia, and to the people defending the Last Dance documentary. We also got a brand new Kaepernick Watch. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports!

Céline Gounder
Twitter: @CelineGounder

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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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