The End of Sport

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Your anti-capitalist sports podcast. Hosted by Derek Silva, Johanna Mellis, Priyansh, Anna Posbergh, and Nathan Kalman-Lamb.

Episode Date
FIFA's World Cup and Authoritarianism with Karim Zidan
Jun 12, 2026
The Politics of the 2026 MAGA World Cup with Zito Madu
Jun 11, 2026
OLF #12: MAGA WORLD CUP KICKOFF STREAM!!!
Jun 08, 2026
Gift and Grit: How Sports Shape Racial Narratives in America
Jun 06, 2026
The Science and Politics of Gender in Women's Sports
Jun 04, 2026
The Evolution of Athlete Activism
Jun 02, 2026
How FIFA Fuels the Occupation of Palestine
May 28, 2026
Out of Left Field #11 - Enhanced Games, “Holistic Coaching,” NAACP, and the World Cup
May 26, 2026
How the Media Upholds Imperialism with Adrian Harewood
May 21, 2026
Anti-Trans Politics and Global Fascism Explored with CJ Jones
May 19, 2026
How Sports Can Be a Site of Anti-Fascist Resistance
May 14, 2026
Inside FIFA and the Politics of Mega-Events with Jules Boykoff
May 11, 2026
Red Sullivan's Fight for Trans Rights in Sports
May 07, 2026
OLF # 10 - FIFA's Genocidal Hypocrisy, LIV & Saudi Arabia, Dutch Citizenship Fiasco & Sports Betting
May 05, 2026
"Tested" and the Resurgence of Sex Testing with Reo Eveleth
Apr 30, 2026
Boxing and US Imperial Decline with Gerald Horne and Anthony Ballas
Apr 28, 2026
The Racial Capitalism Debate with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Apr 24, 2026
Sports and the Strait of Hormuz with Laleh Khalili 
Apr 23, 2026
OLF #9 - Canada Blocking Palestinian FA Visas, Hungarian Election, James Dolan & MSG, Brianna Turner
Apr 21, 2026
The Sports Psychology Episode with Lauren Beasley
Apr 16, 2026
The Hidden Labor of Ethiopian Runners with Hannah Borenstein
Apr 14, 2026
Double Crossover with Courtney M. Cox
Apr 09, 2026
OLF #8 - Trump's Unhinged Genocidal Post, March Madness, WNBA-WNBPA CBA, and the World Cup
Apr 07, 2026
Trans Athletes and The Fight for Inclusion
Apr 02, 2026
The Palestine Exception in Football with Abubaker Abed
Mar 30, 2026
Everything You Need to Know About the IOC's Recent Genetic Testing Policy
Mar 27, 2026
Out of Left Field #7 - Sportswashing: FIFA, Gambling, WNBA and the Fight for Justice
Mar 24, 2026
The Dark Side of Sports Gambling with Adam Johnson
Mar 19, 2026
Fair Game and the Future of Trans Athletes with Anna Baeth, Ellie Roscher, and Chris Mosier
Mar 17, 2026
Scientific Integrity in Sex Testing with Madeleine Pape
Mar 12, 2026
Iran PULLS OUT of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup! INSTANT REACTION
Mar 11, 2026
Out of Left Field #6 - Iran, Trump, Paralympics, and College Sports
Mar 10, 2026
The T-20 Cricket World Cup, Hindutva, and India-Pakistan (Bonus live episode)
Mar 09, 2026
Cuba and Revolutionary Sport with Vijay Prashad
Mar 05, 2026
Homeland Empire with Nikhil Pal Singh
Mar 03, 2026
Iran and Resistance to US Imperialism - Out of Left Field Episode #5
Mar 02, 2026
Mexico and the Politics of the 2026 Fifa Men's World Cup
Feb 26, 2026
Out of Left Field - FIFA, UEFA, and the Palestine Exception
Feb 24, 2026
Unpacking Migration and Racial Capitalism with Harsha Walia
Feb 19, 2026
The Politics of Football with Sean Jacobs
Feb 17, 2026
Cricket and the India-Pakistan Rivalry
Feb 12, 2026
Out of Left Field - Bad Bunny, Super Bowl, and the Winter Olympics 2026
Feb 09, 2026
Heated Rivalry: Hockey Culture, Nationalism and Queer Representation
Feb 05, 2026
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milano-Cortina
Feb 05, 2026
Episode 172: Speaking Out with McKenzie Forbes
Jan 30, 2026
Out of Left Field Episode 2 - Minneapolis, India's Cricket Crisis, and Anti-Trans Rhetoric
Jan 27, 2026
Episode 171: Trump and the FIFA Clusterf*ck with Priyansh
Jan 20, 2026
Out of Left Field Episode 1
Jan 16, 2026
Sports as a Weapon & The End of College Football
Jan 13, 2026
Episode 170: The Pseudoscience of Trans Exclusion
Oct 09, 2025
Kick Israel Out of FIFA
Oct 03, 2025
Episode 169: Exploitation and Care in College Football with Dr. Tracie Canada
Sep 22, 2025
Episode 168: Canada is Trying to Deport a Future Olympian
Sep 16, 2025
Halifax Demands Davis Cup Cancellation
Sep 11, 2025
Episode 167: Cancel Canada-Israel Davis Cup
Sep 02, 2025
Episode 166: Pyramid Scheme
Aug 27, 2025
El Jones Speaks Against the Davis Cup in Halifax
Aug 25, 2025
Episode 165: Canadian Hockey on Trial
Aug 19, 2025
Episode 164: On Athleticide
Aug 12, 2025
Episode 163: Gaza and Global Sport
Aug 07, 2025
Episode 162: CTE and Sport with Dr. Jesse Mez
Jan 13, 2025
Episode 161: Academic Exploitation in College Sport
Dec 18, 2024
Episode 160: The Boxing Debacle at Paris 2024
Dec 09, 2024
Episode 159: The San Jose State Transphobic Clusterf*ck
Nov 29, 2024
Episode 158: On Sport and Genocide
Nov 05, 2024
Episode 157: The Caitlin Clark Effect
Oct 03, 2024
Episode 156: Heterodox Takes on Football with Chris Kluwe
Sep 26, 2024
Episode 155: Steven Thrasher Speaks Back
Sep 19, 2024
Episode 154: Football is Killing US School Kids
Sep 03, 2024
Episode 153: Olympic Depravities with Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
Aug 27, 2024
Episode 152: The Wide World of Concussions with Stephen Casper
Aug 16, 2024
Episode 151: Olympic 'Gender Verification' Meltdown
Aug 05, 2024
Episode 150: Coercion and Agency in College Sport with Dr. Wayne Black
Jul 30, 2024
Episode 149: What Are The Olympics For?
Jul 22, 2024
Episode 148: Sports Media Complicity in Genocide
Jul 18, 2024
Episode 147: The End of College Football, Part II: Jabo Burrow
Jul 15, 2024
Episode 146: The End of College Football, Part I: Jabo Burrow
Jul 09, 2024
Episode 145: Sports Gambling with Joel Anderson
Jul 02, 2024
Episode 144: "We Hear the Voices of the Children In Gaza," on Sport During a Genocide with Charlotte Phillips
Jun 24, 2024
Episode 143: The Shifting Legal Landscape of College Sport
Jun 17, 2024
Episode 142: College Athletes and the Encampment Movement
Jun 10, 2024
Episode 141: Protest Politics with Robin D. G. Kelley
Jun 04, 2024
Episode 140: The Columbia Encampment
May 28, 2024
Episode 139: The Political Economy of Women's Sport
May 22, 2024
Episode 138: Sport and the Climate Crisis with Madeleine Orr
May 14, 2024
Episode 137: The Hegemonic vs. Inclusive Masculinity Debate
Apr 23, 2024
Episode 136: How the Anti-trans Movement Shields Cisgender Sexual Predators
Apr 19, 2024
Episode 135: Hungary, Sportswashing, and Global Fascism
Apr 10, 2024
Episode 134: Masculinities and Sport with Raewyn Connell
Mar 26, 2024
Episode 132: The Barstool Sports Episode
Mar 14, 2024
Episode 131: College Sport NLRB Extravaganza
Mar 11, 2024
Episode 130: The Definitive Netflix Sports Rankings
Mar 04, 2024
Episode 129: Higher Ed 'Crisis' with Asheesh Kapur Siddique and Joe Darda
Feb 29, 2024
Episode 128: On The PWHL with Liz Knox
Feb 26, 2024
Episode 127: Gaza Genocide and Sporting Politics with Karim Zidan
Feb 20, 2024
Episode 126: Football, Manliness, and the Conjuncture
Feb 13, 2024
Episode 125: Israel and Russia Don't Belong in Paris 2024
Feb 09, 2024
Episode 124: The Swiftie Bowl
Feb 07, 2024
Episode 123: Palestine Solidarity
Jan 31, 2024
Episode 122: Why Canada Needs a Judicial Inquiry into Sport
Dec 04, 2023
Episode 120: Another College Sport Apocalypse
Aug 16, 2023
Episode 119: The End of College Football (A Preview)
Aug 10, 2023
Episode 118: What is Hockey Culture? with Kristi Allain
Aug 03, 2023
Episode 117: Decoding Racist Representation in Sport with Kelly Wright
Jul 27, 2023
Episode 116: A Football Life with Zack Furness
Jul 19, 2023
Episode 115: The Sport Management Episode, Part Two
Jul 06, 2023
Episode 114: The Sport Management Episode, Part One
Jun 30, 2023
Episode 113: Political Transphobia and Sport in New Brunswick with Susan Holt
Jun 20, 2023
Episode 112: Black Ball with Theresa Runstedler
Jun 15, 2023
Episode 111: How Women’s Swimming Got So Transphobic
Jun 09, 2023
Episode 110: Floridian and national athletic anti-fascist resistance with Joel Anderson
Mar 17, 2023
Episode 109: On The End of Sport, College Sports, Labor, and Exploitation
Mar 09, 2023
Episode 108: On Racism in Canadian Sport with Ian Kennedy
Feb 21, 2023
Episode 107: Abuse and Harm in Canadian Sport with Jennifer Fraser and MacIntosh Ross
Feb 03, 2023
Episode 106: Historicizing and Theorizing Harm in Youth Sport w/ Dionne Koller
Jan 26, 2023
Episode 105: Racial Capitalism and Football with Joshua Myers
Jan 19, 2023
Episode 104: We’re back!
Jan 09, 2023
Episode 103: Sport and Empire
Jun 08, 2022
Episode 102: On Critical Sports Fandom
Jun 02, 2022
Episode 101: Athletes Reimagining College Sport
May 25, 2022
Episode 100: Critical Sports Scholars on Parenting and Youth Sport
May 18, 2022
Episode 99: Towards a Public Sociology of Sport
May 06, 2022
Episode 98: Dehumanization and the NFL Draft with Ben Natan
Apr 29, 2022
Episode 97: Universities Are *Choosing* Not To Pay Academic Bonuses to Athletes
Apr 20, 2022
Episode 96: On UCLA Gymnastics, Iowa Football, and Ted Lasso
Feb 24, 2022
Episode 95: On Transphobia in Capitalist Sport with Karleigh Chardonnay Webb
Feb 15, 2022
Episode 94: Pandemic Sport, Convoys, and the Anti-Trans Movement in Sports
Feb 04, 2022
Episode 93: Hard Truths about Football with Chris Borland
Jan 17, 2022
Episode 92: Institutional Failure and Harm in Canadian Gymnastics with Kim Shore, Part I
Jan 11, 2022
Episode 91: The Wide World of Surveillance in Sport with Courtney M. Cox
Nov 23, 2021
Episode 90: Football and Fairness with Johnny Stanton
Nov 17, 2021
Episode 89: The NLRB Memo with Jennifer Abruzzo
Nov 10, 2021
Episode 88: Athletic Labor and #Striketober
Nov 01, 2021
Episode 87: Fighting for #FairBall in the Minors with Harry Marino
Oct 28, 2021
Episode 86: On Coercion and Resistance in College Sport
Oct 25, 2021
Episode 85: #Striketober with Max Alvarez
Oct 20, 2021
Episode 84: The Sports Media Problem with Adam H. Johnson
Oct 05, 2021
Episode 83: Progress for Whom? With Britni de la Cretaz
Sep 28, 2021
Episode 82: Higher Ed is Imploding! with Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Sep 20, 2021
Episode 81: ‘Family,‘ Race, and College Football with Tracie Canada
Sep 13, 2021
Episode 79: Status Coercion in College Sport with Erin Hatton
Aug 30, 2021
Episode 78: “Understanding Gymnastics on its Own Terms” with Dvora Meyers, Part II
Aug 26, 2021
Episode 77: “Understanding Gymnastics on its Own Terms” with Dvora Meyers, Part I
Aug 23, 2021
Episode 76: Abolishing the Olympics with Jonny Coleman of NOlympics LA
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 75: Unfiltered with Kaiya McCullough
Aug 10, 2021
Episode 74: Buying Unicorns with Dogecoin at the Tokyo Olympics with Jules Boykoff
Aug 03, 2021
Episode 73: On the Rich Aquatic History of the Black Diaspora with Naji Ali
Jul 28, 2021
Episode 71: On Trans and Non-Binary Sporting Inclusion with Verity Smith and Abby Barras
Jun 07, 2021
Episode 70: Gender Expansive Gymnastics with Half In, Half Out
May 03, 2021
Episode 69: One Year
Apr 19, 2021
Episode 68: How Texas Changed the Culture of Athletics with Frank Guridy
Apr 07, 2021
Episode 67: Black Feminism and Contemporary Sports Culture with Dr. Letisha Brown
Mar 22, 2021
Episode 66: The Plantation Dynamics of College Sport
Mar 18, 2021
Episode 65: College Football and the Re-making of Oklahoma with Andrew McGregor
Mar 10, 2021
Episode 64:The College Sports Media Problem
Mar 02, 2021
Episode 63: On the NWHL, *That* Media Company, and the “Girlboss” Ethos with Natalie Weiner and Hemal Jhaveri
Feb 03, 2021
Episode 62: Covid-19 and College Basketball with Jordan Bohannon
Jan 27, 2021
Episode 61: Klete Keller, Sport Media, and The Whiteness Problem in Swimming with Christienna Fryar and Matt Hodler
Jan 21, 2021
Episode 60: Sport and Politics on the Field and in the Academy with Lucía Trimbur, Part II
Jan 13, 2021
Episode 59: Ethnography of a Gridiron Concussion Crisis with Lucía Trimbur, Part I
Jan 07, 2021
Episode 58: “A Horrific Canadian Soccer Story” with Ciara McCormack, Part II
Dec 31, 2020
Episode 57: “Our Passion Was Used Against Us” with Ciara McCormack, Part I
Dec 23, 2020
Episode 56: Raging Against the (College Sports) Machine with David West and Ricky Volante
Dec 16, 2020
Episode 55: Constructing New Rooms with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Dec 10, 2020
Episode 54: Anthropology of an American Pandemic with Adia Benton
Dec 03, 2020
Episode 53: Georgia On My Mind with Amanda Mull
Nov 19, 2020
Episode 52: Fascism, Spectacle, and Politics with Maximillian Alvarez and Sina Rahmani
Nov 16, 2020
Episode 51: Racialized Organizations, Politics, (and Sports) with Victor Ray
Oct 27, 2020
Episode 50: Harm and Hockey with Rick Westhead
Oct 21, 2020
Episode 49: Sport and COVID-19 Special with Gavin Yamey and Zachary Binney
Oct 06, 2020
Episode 48: #WeAreUnited with Otito Ogbonnia
Oct 01, 2020
Episode 47: Talking Gymnastics with Jessica O’Beirne of GymCastic
Sep 22, 2020
Episode 46: Swimming While Black with Jamal Hill
Sep 17, 2020
Episode 45: Racialized Nationalism and Hegemonic Masculinity in Swimming with Matt Hodler
Sep 16, 2020
Episode 44: The Culture of Abuse in Swimming with Katherine Starr
Sep 15, 2020
Episode 43: The Golden Age of Black Swimming with Kevin Dawson
Sep 14, 2020
Episode 42: Cheer, College Football, and Suffering as Virtue with Amanda Mull
Sep 09, 2020
Episode 41: “Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back” with Kavitha Davidson and Jessica Luther
Aug 31, 2020
Episode 40: On the Player Strikes
Aug 28, 2020
Episode 39: 'Everyone On Screen Has Tested Negative' by Hannah Ensor
Aug 24, 2020
Episode 38: Fascism, Coloniality, and Sport with Zoé Samudzi
Aug 20, 2020
Episode 37: Olympic Sport on the New Plantation with Tezira Abe
Aug 17, 2020
Episode 36: Solidarity Forever with Kain Colter
Aug 13, 2020
Episode 35: Reimagining College Sport with Ricky Volante
Aug 10, 2020
Episode 34: Athlete A and Gymnastics Culture with Jennifer Sey
Aug 06, 2020
Episode 33: The Sports Industrial Complex with Kevin Blackistone
Aug 03, 2020
Episode 32: College Revenue Athlete Special with Hunter Reynolds and Benjamin St-Juste of College Athlete Unity and Miles Lester
Jul 30, 2020
Episode 30: Teaching Capitalism to Americans: The Karolyis Come Stateside with Geza Pozsar
Jul 23, 2020
Episode 29: “Their System was Much More Brutal…”: The Karolyi Way in Communist Romania with Geza Pozsar
Jul 22, 2020
Episode 28, Part II: History and Harm in Gymnastics with Georgia Cervin
Jul 21, 2020
Episode 28, Part I: History and Harm in Gymnastics with Georgia Cervin
Jul 20, 2020
Episode 27: The Language of Race and Sport with Kelly E. Wright
Jul 16, 2020
Episode 26: #NotYourMascot with Jacqueline Keeler
Jul 13, 2020
Episode 25: Race, Gender, and Youth Sport History with Samantha White
Jul 09, 2020
Episode 24: (Athletic) Labor Talk with Hamilton Nolan
Jul 06, 2020
Episode 23: Hypocrisy is Their Middle Name
Jul 02, 2020
Episode 22: Mailbag Time!
Jun 29, 2020
Episode 21: Hoop Dreams, High Flying Bird, and Sporting Blackness on Screen with Samantha Sheppard
Jun 25, 2020
Episode 20: Communist vs. Capitalist Sport with Johanna Mellis
Jun 22, 2020
Episode 19: Behind the UNC Scandals with Jay Smith and Ted Tatos
Jun 18, 2020
Episode 18: Edgy Times with Dave Zirin
Jun 15, 2020
Episode 17: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion in Sport with Shireen Ahmed
Jun 12, 2020
Episode 16: Racism, Rebellion, and the Sport Media Complex with Hemal Jhaveri
Jun 08, 2020
Episode 15: Racism and Resistance with Michael Bennett
Jun 04, 2020
Episode 14: On The Last Dance with Louis Moore
Jun 01, 2020
Episode 13: The Ethics of Football and the Concussion Industrial Complex
May 28, 2020
Episode 12: Blame Canada
May 25, 2020
Episode 11: Bootstraps and Baseball
May 22, 2020
Episode 10: Fans All Day with Andrew Stoeten
May 18, 2020
Episode 9: Life in the W (and Around the World) with Elizabeth Williams
May 15, 2020
Episode 8: The Lie of Amateurism
May 11, 2020
Episode 7: Fandom, Work, and Academic Precarity
May 08, 2020
Episode 6: Not Your Average Athlete Interview
May 06, 2020
Episode 5: Food Insecurity and College Athletics
May 04, 2020
Episode 4: What's Wrong with the Olympics?
May 01, 2020
Episode 3: The Truth About College Sport
Apr 27, 2020
Episode 2: Athletic Labor and COVID-19
Apr 20, 2020
Episode 1: Welcome to the Show!
Apr 12, 2020