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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #205: Wildcat Sports Strike Wave, with Dave Zirin
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Last week, beginning with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, a strike wave spread across professional sports as athletes chose not to play in order to express solidarity with victims of racist violence. The strikes may have been short-lived, but they made a huge impact, disrupting the pretense of normalcy that sports entertainment normally helps viewers create. We talk to sports reporter and author Dave Zirin about why the athletic strikes were so important, and why the media can’t seem to understand them as strikes.
We also look in on the...