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Nordic Asia Podcast December 10, 2021

The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai

Dusica Ristivojević

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Several high-profile cases of sexual harassment and assault have helped the #MeToo movement in China continue to make impacts on a society that is highly controlled and surveilled. Most recently …

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Interviews with athletes and scholars of sports about their new books.

Sports January 12, 2022

The Story of Yoga

From Ancient India to the Modern West

Alistair Shearer

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Alistair Shearer, a freelance scholar of South Asian religion and culture, and teacher of yoga and the psychology of yoga. He is also the author …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 30, 2021

The Mind-Body Problem

Janko Tipsarevic

Hosted by Howard Burton
The Mind-Body Problem is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Janko Tipsarevic, who is a former professional tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of world …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership December 27, 2021

Jethro Binns

Founder of Squashskills.com on Online Sports Training

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Jethro Binns was rated 84th in the world squash rankings. A terrible accident on court cut his career short, later he founded Squashskills, which is now the world's leading online …
Sports December 14, 2021

Power and Politics in World Athletics

A Critical History

Jörg Krieger

Hosted by Hannah Borenstein
Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History (Routledge, 2021) by Jörg Krieger provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International …
Sports December 10, 2021

Sport and Moral Conflict

A Conventionalist Theory

William J. Morgan

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by William J. Morgan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, and the author of Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory (Temple University Press …
Academic Life December 9, 2021

Shoutin’ In the Fire

A Conversation with Graduate Student Dante Stewart

Dante Stewart

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dante Stewart’s path through college and into his current graduate school, playing football for Clemson, why former college athletes …
Sports December 8, 2021

The Kaepernick Effect

Taking a Knee, Changing the World

Dave Zirin

Hosted by Paul Knepper
In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during …
American West November 12, 2021

Trout Culture

How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West

Jen Corrinne Brown

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates …
Sports November 5, 2021

Whose Game?

Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports

Rebecca Joyce Kissane and Sarah Winslow

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Rebecca Joyce Kissane, Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College, and Sarah Winslow, Professor of Sociology at Clemson University, who together are the authors of Whose …
Sports November 5, 2021

Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball

A Namibian Odyssey

Ben Guest

Hosted by Paul Knepper
Today I talked to Ben Guest about his new book Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: A Namibian Odyssey (2021).Pressure plays, buzzer-beaters, and mindfulness meditation: A team of teenagers goes for …
Sports November 2, 2021

Centered

Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams

Anthony Ianni and Robert Roy Keast

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
"They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of." Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in …
Sports October 27, 2021

Egypt’s Football Revolution

Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics

Carl Rommel

Hosted by Paul Knepper
Both a symbol of the Mubarak government’s power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime’s overthrow during …
Sports October 25, 2021

The War

Hagler-Hearns and Three Rounds for the Ages

Don Stradley

Hosted by Paul Knepper
The battle between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns is remembered as one of the greatest fights of all time. But in the months before the two finally collided on …
Asian Review of Books October 21, 2021

Horse Girls

Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond

Halimah Marcus

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
We’re celebrating our one-year anniversary with this interview, and so I wanted to introduce a special guest for today: Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, talented writer, journalist and dear friend. We’re going …
Sports October 11, 2021

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back

Dilemmas of the Modern Fan

Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Jessica Luther, a freelance investigative journalist, and Kavitha Davidson, a sport and culture writer with the Athletic, who together are the authors of Loving Sports …
Sports September 23, 2021

Spartakiads

The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

Petr Roubal

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Petr Roubal, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in the Czech Academy of Sciences, and author of Spartakiads: The Politics of Physical Culture …
Science September 16, 2021

The Plant-Based Athlete

A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance

Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance (HarperOne, 2021) by Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke reveals the incontrovertible proof that the human body does not need meat, eggs, or …
Sports September 16, 2021

Our Team

The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

Luke Epplin

Hosted by Paul Knepper
In July 1947, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball, Larry Doby would follow in …
Science September 14, 2021

Running Smart

How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance

Mariska van Sprundel

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Conventional wisdom about running is passed down like folklore (and sometimes contradicts itself): the right kind of shoe prevents injury—or running barefoot, like our prehistoric ancestors, is best; eat a …