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The End of Sport — 234 episodes
The SCOTUS Anti-Trans Ruling
OLF #15 - Wrapping The MAGA World Cup, Selling Pitch Turf, and Pete Hegseth’s Fascism
Should There be an Asterisk on the MAGA World Cup?
Football Deserves Better Than FIFA with David Goldblatt
Morocco at the MAGA World Cup!
What Explains Brazil's Football Decline?
OLF #14 - Corrupt FIFA, SCOTUS Bigotry, Sexual Violence & the World Cup
Resisting the Fascist World Cup
Mexico at the 2026 MAGA World Cup!
The World Cup of Fossil Fuels
How Football Explains Egypt
Revisiting the 2022 Qatar World Cup
OLF #13 – The Department of Homeland Security, Fascism, and the US Men’s National Soccer Team
Why Aren't China, India, and Pakistan at the World Cup?
US-Iran and the World Cup
Iran is at the World Cup with Sina Rahmani
FIFA's World Cup and Authoritarianism with Karim Zidan
The Politics of the 2026 MAGA World Cup with Zito Madu
OLF #12: MAGA WORLD CUP KICKOFF STREAM!!!
Gift and Grit: How Sports Shape Racial Narratives in America
The Science and Politics of Gender in Women's Sports
The Evolution of Athlete Activism
How FIFA Fuels the Occupation of Palestine
Out of Left Field #11 - Enhanced Games, “Holistic Coaching,” NAACP, and the World Cup
How the Media Upholds Imperialism with Adrian Harewood
Anti-Trans Politics and Global Fascism Explored with CJ Jones
How Sports Can Be a Site of Anti-Fascist Resistance
Inside FIFA and the Politics of Mega-Events with Jules Boykoff
Red Sullivan's Fight for Trans Rights in Sports
OLF # 10 - FIFA's Genocidal Hypocrisy, LIV & Saudi Arabia, Dutch Citizenship Fiasco & Sports Betting
"Tested" and the Resurgence of Sex Testing with Reo Eveleth
Boxing and US Imperial Decline with Gerald Horne and Anthony Ballas
The Racial Capitalism Debate with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Sports and the Strait of Hormuz with Laleh Khalili
OLF #9 - Canada Blocking Palestinian FA Visas, Hungarian Election, James Dolan & MSG, Brianna Turner
The Sports Psychology Episode with Lauren Beasley
The Hidden Labor of Ethiopian Runners with Hannah Borenstein
Double Crossover with Courtney M. Cox
OLF #8 - Trump's Unhinged Genocidal Post, March Madness, WNBA-WNBPA CBA, and the World Cup
Trans Athletes and The Fight for Inclusion
The Palestine Exception in Football with Abubaker Abed
Everything You Need to Know About the IOC's Recent Genetic Testing Policy
Out of Left Field #7 - Sportswashing: FIFA, Gambling, WNBA and the Fight for Justice
The Dark Side of Sports Gambling with Adam Johnson
Fair Game and the Future of Trans Athletes with Anna Baeth, Ellie Roscher, and Chris Mosier
Scientific Integrity in Sex Testing with Madeleine Pape
Iran PULLS OUT of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup! INSTANT REACTION
Out of Left Field #6 - Iran, Trump, Paralympics, and College Sports
The T-20 Cricket World Cup, Hindutva, and India-Pakistan (Bonus live episode)
Cuba and Revolutionary Sport with Vijay Prashad
Homeland Empire with Nikhil Pal Singh
Iran and Resistance to US Imperialism - Out of Left Field Episode #5
Mexico and the Politics of the 2026 Fifa Men's World Cup
Out of Left Field - FIFA, UEFA, and the Palestine Exception
Unpacking Migration and Racial Capitalism with Harsha Walia
The Politics of Football with Sean Jacobs
Cricket and the India-Pakistan Rivalry
Out of Left Field - Bad Bunny, Super Bowl, and the Winter Olympics 2026
Heated Rivalry: Hockey Culture, Nationalism and Queer Representation
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milano-Cortina
Episode 172: Speaking Out with McKenzie Forbes
Out of Left Field Episode 2 - Minneapolis, India's Cricket Crisis, and Anti-Trans Rhetoric
Episode 171: Trump and the FIFA Clusterf*ck with Priyansh
Out of Left Field Episode 1
Sports as a Weapon & The End of College Football
Episode 170: The Pseudoscience of Trans Exclusion
Kick Israel Out of FIFA
Episode 169: Exploitation and Care in College Football with Dr. Tracie Canada
Episode 168: Canada is Trying to Deport a Future Olympian
Halifax Demands Davis Cup Cancellation
Episode 167: Cancel Canada-Israel Davis Cup
Episode 166: Pyramid Scheme
El Jones Speaks Against the Davis Cup in Halifax
Episode 165: Canadian Hockey on Trial
Episode 164: On Athleticide
Episode 163: Gaza and Global Sport
Episode 162: CTE and Sport with Dr. Jesse Mez
Episode 161: Academic Exploitation in College Sport
Episode 160: The Boxing Debacle at Paris 2024
Episode 159: The San Jose State Transphobic Clusterf*ck
Episode 158: On Sport and Genocide
Episode 157: The Caitlin Clark Effect
Episode 156: Heterodox Takes on Football with Chris Kluwe
Episode 155: Steven Thrasher Speaks Back
Episode 154: Football is Killing US School Kids
Episode 153: Olympic Depravities with Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
Episode 152: The Wide World of Concussions with Stephen Casper
Episode 151: Olympic 'Gender Verification' Meltdown
Episode 150: Coercion and Agency in College Sport with Dr. Wayne Black
Episode 149: What Are The Olympics For?
Episode 148: Sports Media Complicity in Genocide
Episode 147: The End of College Football, Part II: Jabo Burrow
Episode 146: The End of College Football, Part I: Jabo Burrow
Episode 145: Sports Gambling with Joel Anderson
Episode 144: "We Hear the Voices of the Children In Gaza," on Sport During a Genocide with Charlotte Phillips
Episode 143: The Shifting Legal Landscape of College Sport
Episode 142: College Athletes and the Encampment Movement
Episode 141: Protest Politics with Robin D. G. Kelley
Episode 140: The Columbia Encampment
Episode 139: The Political Economy of Women's Sport
Episode 138: Sport and the Climate Crisis with Madeleine Orr
Episode 137: The Hegemonic vs. Inclusive Masculinity Debate
Episode 136: How the Anti-trans Movement Shields Cisgender Sexual Predators
Episode 135: Hungary, Sportswashing, and Global Fascism
Episode 134: Masculinities and Sport with Raewyn Connell
Episode 132: The Barstool Sports Episode
Episode 131: College Sport NLRB Extravaganza
Episode 130: The Definitive Netflix Sports Rankings
Episode 129: Higher Ed 'Crisis' with Asheesh Kapur Siddique and Joe Darda
Episode 128: On The PWHL with Liz Knox
Episode 127: Gaza Genocide and Sporting Politics with Karim Zidan
Episode 126: Football, Manliness, and the Conjuncture
Episode 125: Israel and Russia Don't Belong in Paris 2024
Episode 124: The Swiftie Bowl
Episode 123: Palestine Solidarity
Episode 122: Why Canada Needs a Judicial Inquiry into Sport
Episode 120: Another College Sport Apocalypse
Episode 119: The End of College Football (A Preview)
Episode 118: What is Hockey Culture? with Kristi Allain
Episode 117: Decoding Racist Representation in Sport with Kelly Wright
Episode 116: A Football Life with Zack Furness
Episode 115: The Sport Management Episode, Part Two
Episode 114: The Sport Management Episode, Part One
Episode 113: Political Transphobia and Sport in New Brunswick with Susan Holt
Episode 112: Black Ball with Theresa Runstedler
Episode 111: How Women’s Swimming Got So Transphobic
Episode 110: Floridian and national athletic anti-fascist resistance with Joel Anderson
Episode 109: On The End of Sport, College Sports, Labor, and Exploitation
Episode 108: On Racism in Canadian Sport with Ian Kennedy
Episode 107: Abuse and Harm in Canadian Sport with Jennifer Fraser and MacIntosh Ross
Episode 106: Historicizing and Theorizing Harm in Youth Sport w/ Dionne Koller
Episode 105: Racial Capitalism and Football with Joshua Myers
Episode 104: We’re back!
Episode 103: Sport and Empire
Episode 102: On Critical Sports Fandom
Episode 101: Athletes Reimagining College Sport
Episode 100: Critical Sports Scholars on Parenting and Youth Sport
Episode 99: Towards a Public Sociology of Sport
Episode 98: Dehumanization and the NFL Draft with Ben Natan
Episode 97: Universities Are *Choosing* Not To Pay Academic Bonuses to Athletes
Episode 96: On UCLA Gymnastics, Iowa Football, and Ted Lasso
Episode 95: On Transphobia in Capitalist Sport with Karleigh Chardonnay Webb
Episode 94: Pandemic Sport, Convoys, and the Anti-Trans Movement in Sports
Episode 93: Hard Truths about Football with Chris Borland
Episode 92: Institutional Failure and Harm in Canadian Gymnastics with Kim Shore, Part I
Episode 91: The Wide World of Surveillance in Sport with Courtney M. Cox
Episode 90: Football and Fairness with Johnny Stanton
Episode 89: The NLRB Memo with Jennifer Abruzzo
Episode 88: Athletic Labor and #Striketober
Episode 87: Fighting for #FairBall in the Minors with Harry Marino
Episode 86: On Coercion and Resistance in College Sport
Episode 85: #Striketober with Max Alvarez
Episode 84: The Sports Media Problem with Adam H. Johnson
Episode 83: Progress for Whom? With Britni de la Cretaz
Episode 82: Higher Ed is Imploding! with Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Episode 81: ‘Family,‘ Race, and College Football with Tracie Canada
Episode 79: Status Coercion in College Sport with Erin Hatton
Episode 78: “Understanding Gymnastics on its Own Terms” with Dvora Meyers, Part II
Episode 77: “Understanding Gymnastics on its Own Terms” with Dvora Meyers, Part I
Episode 76: Abolishing the Olympics with Jonny Coleman of NOlympics LA
Episode 75: Unfiltered with Kaiya McCullough
Episode 74: Buying Unicorns with Dogecoin at the Tokyo Olympics with Jules Boykoff
Episode 73: On the Rich Aquatic History of the Black Diaspora with Naji Ali
Episode 71: On Trans and Non-Binary Sporting Inclusion with Verity Smith and Abby Barras
Episode 70: Gender Expansive Gymnastics with Half In, Half Out
Episode 69: One Year
Episode 68: How Texas Changed the Culture of Athletics with Frank Guridy
Episode 67: Black Feminism and Contemporary Sports Culture with Dr. Letisha Brown
Episode 66: The Plantation Dynamics of College Sport
Episode 65: College Football and the Re-making of Oklahoma with Andrew McGregor
Episode 64:The College Sports Media Problem
Episode 63: On the NWHL, *That* Media Company, and the “Girlboss” Ethos with Natalie Weiner and Hemal Jhaveri
Episode 62: Covid-19 and College Basketball with Jordan Bohannon
Episode 61: Klete Keller, Sport Media, and The Whiteness Problem in Swimming with Christienna Fryar and Matt Hodler
Episode 60: Sport and Politics on the Field and in the Academy with Lucía Trimbur, Part II
Episode 59: Ethnography of a Gridiron Concussion Crisis with Lucía Trimbur, Part I
Episode 58: “A Horrific Canadian Soccer Story” with Ciara McCormack, Part II
Episode 57: “Our Passion Was Used Against Us” with Ciara McCormack, Part I
Episode 56: Raging Against the (College Sports) Machine with David West and Ricky Volante
Episode 55: Constructing New Rooms with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Episode 54: Anthropology of an American Pandemic with Adia Benton
Episode 53: Georgia On My Mind with Amanda Mull
Episode 52: Fascism, Spectacle, and Politics with Maximillian Alvarez and Sina Rahmani
Episode 51: Racialized Organizations, Politics, (and Sports) with Victor Ray
Episode 50: Harm and Hockey with Rick Westhead
Episode 49: Sport and COVID-19 Special with Gavin Yamey and Zachary Binney
Episode 48: #WeAreUnited with Otito Ogbonnia
Episode 47: Talking Gymnastics with Jessica O’Beirne of GymCastic
Episode 46: Swimming While Black with Jamal Hill
Episode 45: Racialized Nationalism and Hegemonic Masculinity in Swimming with Matt Hodler
Episode 44: The Culture of Abuse in Swimming with Katherine Starr
Episode 43: The Golden Age of Black Swimming with Kevin Dawson
Episode 42: Cheer, College Football, and Suffering as Virtue with Amanda Mull
Episode 41: “Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back” with Kavitha Davidson and Jessica Luther
Episode 40: On the Player Strikes
Episode 39: 'Everyone On Screen Has Tested Negative' by Hannah Ensor
Episode 38: Fascism, Coloniality, and Sport with Zoé Samudzi
Episode 37: Olympic Sport on the New Plantation with Tezira Abe
Episode 36: Solidarity Forever with Kain Colter
Episode 35: Reimagining College Sport with Ricky Volante
Episode 34: Athlete A and Gymnastics Culture with Jennifer Sey
Episode 33: The Sports Industrial Complex with Kevin Blackistone
Episode 32: College Revenue Athlete Special with Hunter Reynolds and Benjamin St-Juste of College Athlete Unity and Miles Lester
Episode 30: Teaching Capitalism to Americans: The Karolyis Come Stateside with Geza Pozsar
Episode 29: “Their System was Much More Brutal…”: The Karolyi Way in Communist Romania with Geza Pozsar
Episode 28, Part II: History and Harm in Gymnastics with Georgia Cervin
Episode 28, Part I: History and Harm in Gymnastics with Georgia Cervin
Episode 27: The Language of Race and Sport with Kelly E. Wright
Episode 26: #NotYourMascot with Jacqueline Keeler
Episode 25: Race, Gender, and Youth Sport History with Samantha White
Episode 24: (Athletic) Labor Talk with Hamilton Nolan
Episode 23: Hypocrisy is Their Middle Name
Episode 22: Mailbag Time!
Episode 21: Hoop Dreams, High Flying Bird, and Sporting Blackness on Screen with Samantha Sheppard
Episode 20: Communist vs. Capitalist Sport with Johanna Mellis
Episode 19: Behind the UNC Scandals with Jay Smith and Ted Tatos
Episode 18: Edgy Times with Dave Zirin
Episode 17: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion in Sport with Shireen Ahmed
Episode 16: Racism, Rebellion, and the Sport Media Complex with Hemal Jhaveri
Episode 15: Racism and Resistance with Michael Bennett
Episode 14: On The Last Dance with Louis Moore
Episode 13: The Ethics of Football and the Concussion Industrial Complex
Episode 12: Blame Canada
Episode 11: Bootstraps and Baseball
Episode 10: Fans All Day with Andrew Stoeten
Episode 9: Life in the W (and Around the World) with Elizabeth Williams
Episode 8: The Lie of Amateurism
Episode 7: Fandom, Work, and Academic Precarity
Episode 6: Not Your Average Athlete Interview
Episode 5: Food Insecurity and College Athletics
Episode 4: What's Wrong with the Olympics?
Episode 3: The Truth About College Sport
Episode 2: Athletic Labor and COVID-19
Episode 1: Welcome to the Show!