A Turning Point in Women’s Sports

A Turning Point in Women’s Sports

Sportswriter Lindsay Gibbs and poet and writer Kevin Powell join the show to talk women’s sports and Kobe’s memorial.

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This week we are talking to Power Plays sports reporter Lindsay Gibbs about the promising albeit volatile state of women’s sports and then to Kevin Powell about his experience at Kobe Bryant’s memorial service at the Staples Center.

We also have a Kaepernick Watch about two volleyball players who took a knee for Palestine. And this week I read a poem! By Kevin Powell!

Lindsay Gibbs
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Twitter: @linzsports

Kevin Powell
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Instagram: KevinPowellBrooklyn

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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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