Redspin Sports
81 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRedspin Sports looks at the connections between the U.S. sports industry & the political, social & economic forces that sustain U.S. imperialism, both at home and abroad.
We examine the history of activist athletes and this generation's reemergence of athlete activism, the history of American football through a critical class struggle lens, and the politics & labor dynamics that characterize the modern pro sports leagues. Highlighting the connections between billionaire team owners, the permanent war state, real estate gentrifiers and slum lords, private prisons, education privatization, police militarization & much more; all of which are critical to fully understanding the social and political forces that define our time.
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Martellus Bennett Speaks Heavy Truths on Football Pathologies: Right-Wing's Predictably Lame Outrage
February 09, 2021 05:29 - 18 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Redspin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the profound and personal reflections on the NFL lifestyle penned by Super Bowl champion tight end and author of "Dear Black Boy," Martellus Bennett, and the hyper-exploitative dynamics which have come to characterize the game of football at every level. Articles and link ...
Max Blumenthal joins Mike & Nate to Discuss NFL & Apartheid Israel's Unholy Alliance (Part II)
February 05, 2021 01:59 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBPlease support our work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redspinsports Part II features a series of #ApartheidIsrael #NFL whitewashing videos produced by groups ranging from Christians United for Israel to NFL Films. The insidiousness of this alliance is not only on full display, but brought into focus with the critical analysis you won't find in mainstream (political or sports) media. Redspin Sports founder Nate Wallace co-hosts Part II of this two-part special with Max Blumenthal, ...
Max Blumenthal on the Israel Lobby in the context of Desean Jackson, Julian Edelman & NFL/Israel Alliance (Part I)
February 05, 2021 01:24 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBPlease support our work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redspinsports Redspin Sports founder Nate Wallace co-hosts Part I of this two-part special with Max Blumenthal, Editor of The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) and co-host of the Moderate Rebels (@Moderate_Rebels) podcast, & the co-host of Redspin Sports Michael Sampson, an organizer with the Jacksonville (Florida) Community Action Committee (@JaxTakesAction), where they have galvanized public support around the demand for Community Cont...
US Sports Transforms in a Time of Pandemic, Police Brutality & Mass Rebellion (Pilot Episode: Pt. 1)
February 05, 2021 01:02 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MBThis is an audio only podcast version of our Redspin Sports pilot episode. It was recorded in Washington, DC (Nate) & Jacksonville, FL (Mike) on June 8th, 2020, and published to YouTube on June 18th, 2020. In Part I of a two part episode of Redspin Sports, co-hosts Nate Wallace and Michael Sampson analyze and discuss the upsurge of radical politics in U.S. professional sports amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests. If you enjoy the content, please consider support...
Esteban Almiron on Legendary Footballer Diego Maradona as Anti-Imperialist Stalwart
February 03, 2021 05:27 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBEsteban Almiron (@taseenb on Twitter) joins Nate Wallace for this 2020 in review episode focused primarily on the perceived threat Diego Maradona posed in the eyes of Western corporate media; and the effects "anti-communism" ideology (the official state ideology of the U.S. empire) has on sport, politics, and progressive people's movements; all of this to ensure that socialist and/or anti-imperialist voices are marginalized, slandered or -if need be- worse. Esteban lives in Buenos Aires, Ar...
Centrality of Baseball & Class Struggle in US Society (Who is Curt Flood) & much more
February 01, 2021 17:46 - 1 hour - 257 MBJustin Williams (@juicetintweets) joins Nate Wallace to talk baseball and class struggle in his Redspin Sports debut performance. We get into a lot of current event (the rise of Justin Jackson as formidable figure on the left) related stuff that's relevant as ever now in 2021. Justin breaks down the Curt Flood story's impossible to overstate significance in U.S. labor history, and much much more. Like & Subscribe to support the show, and listen to the audio podcast version wherever you liste...
Redspin Sports Terrific Trio's Live Debut (The Arctic Blast Cold AF Edition)
January 30, 2021 15:57 - 1 hour - 103 MBNate @NateWallace9, Mike @BrotherFlourish, & Justin @JuiceTinTweets live debut of our new Redspin Sports trio talking everything U.S. politics and sports related from an unapologetic, working-class partisan point of view. Nate, Mike, & Justin riff on NFL ownership's reactionary fuckery, from Detroit to Houston to Jacksonville (all 32 of 'em TBR), Deshaun Watson demanding a trade from the Houston Texans & how it relates to the Rooney Rule (only TWO Black NFL head coaches remain now), Barsto...
Women’s Hockey Player Goes On Offense In Fight Against Barstool Misogyny, Cynical NBA All Star Game HBCU Ploy, & Michigan Sports Shutdown
January 30, 2021 04:59 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, another edition of the weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss why National Women's Hockey League player Saroya Tinker is speaking out against reactionary media outlet Barstool Sports, worrying indications by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that Michigan could reinstate high school athletics within a span of "“weeks or days," and how and why the NB...
Mike Sampson on Political Misfits Dishing on NFL Concussions, NBA's Cynical Player Vaccine Pitch & more
January 30, 2021 04:40 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBMichael Sampson, who is part of the national leadership of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and co-host of Redspin Sports, joins us for our Foul Play segment. With Joe Biden at the White House will it allow apolitical sports players feel better about coming to the White House after winning championships again? Will sports protests will slow under Biden’s administration simply because he wasn’t Trump or have sports and their relationship with protests turned a corn...
NCAA Hoops Coaches Think Twice About Pandemic Tourneys, CFB Recruiting Scandal Industry & Zion Williamson Lawsuit
January 26, 2021 19:36 - 12 minutes - 29.2 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment "The Red Spin Report." They discuss why more than one in four NCAA basketball coaches doesn't think conference tournaments should be held this year, why NCAA recruiting rules are regularly violated by big teams, and the disturbing implications of the league's refusal to compensate student-athletes. Recorded...
Right-Wing Media, Pundits Use Bizarre ‘Activist’ To Blame Left For Capitol Insurrection & NFL's Justin Jackson
January 18, 2021 00:56 - 19 minutes - 44.9 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of the new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss why so many NCAA athletes and coaches think college sports should be put on hold until the pandemic abates, the strange saga of speed-skater-turned-Capitol-rioter John Sullivan, and why right-wing media has become so fixated on him. Recorded and aired on Friday, Janua...
Nate Wallace Breaks Down Lessons Learned Covering MAGA Capitol Hill Insurrection
January 14, 2021 01:58 - 19 minutes - 44.9 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another look at the fascist insurrection which stormed the Capitol building Wednesday. They discuss what Nate & Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone encountered in conversations with rioters & observed as the events played out. Importantly, they also critically analyze the psychology and ideology behind the rioters who invaded the attempt by Congress ...
Cold War Legacy Behind US Olympians STILL Facing Repression, NCAA Name Image & Likeness @ SCOTUS & More
December 31, 2020 03:03 - 18 minutes - 34.2 MBNate Wallace, creator and co-host of the podcast Redspin Sports, joins "Political Misfits" to discuss everything we ought to know about paying college athletes, protesting at the Olympics and elsewhere, and the pandemic's impact on youth sports & mental health -particularly the struggles facing US society's most vulnerable students. "Political Misfits" co-host Michelle Witte hosted Nate on Radio Sputnik's Washington, DC based radio program & podcast "Political Misfits" on Wednesday, Decemb...
Obama & DNC AIPAC stooge Bakari Sellers' Sporting "Wokeness," Negro Leagues & NFL Healthcare Charade
December 26, 2020 22:11 - 21 minutes - 48.1 MBOn this week's Redspin Report Nate joins Sean & Jacquie to breakdown Obama & Bakari Sellers' continued gaslighting of the left after Obama appeared on The Ringer's Bill Simmons Podcast (often co-hosted now by Bakari Sellers). Checkout this 2014 CNN video interview of Bakari Sellers while he was running to become South Carolina's Lt. Governor for greater context into how committed he is to helping the Democratic Party remain a center-right party that's pro banks and Wall Street. https://ww...
Nate Goes in on the Right-Wing Snow Flakes Crying over Loss of the Cleveland Indians tonight
December 14, 2020 05:17 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBNate recorded a few hot takes over the snow flakes on the right losing their minds over another major domino to fall in "the pantheon" of Native American Mascotry in U.S. Sports, Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians. The connection between the outrage over "the loss" of the Indians nickname all over right-wing Twitter & YouTube is explored in the context of the unresolved legacies of settler colonialism and slavery in the United States. He also dishes on the absurdity that is Power 5 col...
Why it's No Surprise Liberty football coach Huge Freeze has Covid (+ his Dubious Past), and CFB's Contradictions Imploding
December 14, 2020 04:19 - 18 minutes - 42.4 MBIn this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the New York Times reporting that almost 7,000 student athletes have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as much of the NCAA plows ahead with college sports seasons, why the real number of coronavirus victims is likely much higher, and why Liberty University football coach Hugh F...
Abdul Malik on Sport in Canada, his Jacobin piece on LuxSneaker Market as Harbinger of Capitalist Future, Tar Sands Enviro Hellscape...
December 13, 2020 00:36 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBAbdul Malik aka @SocialistRaptor (a dope Twitter handle & a great follow btw) joins Redspin Sports' founder Nathaniel (or Nate -it's whatever) Wallace @NateWallace9, to riff on everything from similarities and differences in sporting culture in the U.S. and Canada, his work as a labor/environmental/indigenous rights activist in "oil country" of Edmonton, Alberta (aka "Canada's Texas"), lots of hoops, football (and the differences in the U.S. and Canadian versions of the game) hockey, and of c...
Mike & Nate Reunited & Riffing on Pandemic Absurdities across Sports, Politics, & Mass Culture
December 11, 2020 06:07 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBMike and Nate reunite to riff on the most pertinent events affecting the world of sports, politics, economics, social issues and more in the context of the insane landscape that is this Covid-19, Neoliberal Hellscape USA. Here are just a few of the issues we analyze, discuss, and even try to have a little fun with -at least as much as it's possible to do so in this time of Covid's resurgence and political cowardice in Washington, DC and state capitals across the U.S. We dive into include ...
Mainstream Media Smears Anti-Imperialist Soccer Icon Diego Maradona & College Football Covid Absurdity
December 06, 2020 01:22 - 16 minutes - 36.8 MBIn this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report." They discuss the portrayals of college football teams which cancel games over coronavirus concerns as weak, the life and politics of the late sports icon Diego Maradona, and why many mainstream media voices seemingly seek to disparage his legacy now. Recorded and aired on Friday, ...
It's Complicated: the Contradictions of Sport, Strikes, Memory, Pain, Gain and Glory
December 03, 2020 00:50 - 21 minutes - 48.1 MBBryan Weaver, founder and executive director of Hoops Sagrado, and Nate Wallace, creator and co-host of the podcast Redspin Sports, joined Political Misfits to discuss Covid forfeits and labor rights in the NFL, the way sports are coopted to carry jingoistic and nationalistic messages, and the importance of these ephemeral means of human expression. Recorded and aired live on Radio Sputnik in Washington D.C. on Wednesday: December 2, 2020. https://www.patreon.com/redspinsports @RedspinSpor...
Miami Covid Crisis Ravages Canes' Football & Failures of the Sports Media Industrial Complex
November 21, 2020 00:04 - 14 minutes - 33.1 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of the Redspin Sports podcast, for another edition of the new weekly segment "The Red Spin Report," to discuss the impacts of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on sports in the US, why so many college football players are committed to playing despite the public health crisis, and the latest worrisome statements from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and newly-elected Alabama Sen. Tommy...
Basketball Diplomacy's Ability to Frustrate US's New Cold War on China
November 18, 2020 02:12 - 16 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report." They discuss the implications of the University of New Mexico having relocated its entire NCAA football team to Las Vegas to circumvent New Mexico COVID-19 restrictions, the lasting consequences of NBA GM Daryl Morey's incendiary comments about Hong Kong, and how the NBA is working...
Danny Haiphong Live: Jingoistic Right-Wing Sports Narratives Dismantled & U.S./China Politics
November 10, 2020 01:13 - 1 hour - 102 MBListener Note: Skip ahead to the 14 minute mark if you don't want (or have time) to listen to Danny and I do a little pre-show riffing as we get ready to rock and roll. Thumbnail Image: Brooklyn, NY native and former NBA star, Stephon Marbury, playing with China's Beijing Ducks where he has become a cultural icon and nothing short of a rock star. Danny Haiphong and Nate Wallace have had enough of Outkick (the Coverage) spewing the most infantile brand of (pun intended) "American Exception...
Football's Class & Race-based Contradictions amid CFB's Dystopian Covidscape
October 31, 2020 23:40 - 18 minutes - 42.1 MBIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of “The Red Spin Report." They discuss the Time Magazine article written by "The End of Sport" podcast hosts: Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Johanna Mellis, & Derek Silva, featuring anonymous comments by a Power Five CFB player that the" whole goal" of the NCAA football league's restart "is to make everyone feel like things are normal—which...
FSU Football Legend "Big Game" James Coleman on History of Gladiator Sports, Race Politics, CFB & More!
October 26, 2020 12:03 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBFormer Florida State Football fullback (2002-2005) and host of the Sports Den (airs weeknights between 8-10) with Denny Thompson on 1010XL/92.5 FM sports radio in Jacksonville, Fla. "Big Game" James Coleman joins Nate & Mike to dish on everything from the ethics of pandemic football, history of gladiator sports, Bobby Bowden/PK Sam Trump endorsement controversy, the sham of calling unpaid athletic laborers "student-athletes," how Covid has ripped the facade off and exposed many already existi...
Redspin Report: Why NFL & College Football Machines Keep Churning Despite Covid
October 18, 2020 16:48 - 14 minutes - 32.1 MBIn this weekly (Friday) segment of "By Any Means Necessary" on Radio Sputnik, Sean and Jacquie are joined for another installment of "The Red Spin Report" by Nate Wallace, co-host of the Redspin Sports podcast. They break down why the NFL continues to be plagued by coronavirus outbreaks, attempts by NCAA football coaches to ensure the "gravy train keeps flowing," and how the lack of a coherent national COVID-19 plan is exacerbating the health crisis in athletics. If you enjoy the content, pl...
Outkick Grifters Clay Travis & Jason Whitlock: Cheerleaders for U.S. Imperialism Posing as Sports Journos
October 15, 2020 20:21 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBNate Wallace hosts Part I of a Redspin Sports series looking into unchecked right-wing sports narratives; particularly the lunacy coming out out of Outkick the Coverage's Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock at a staggering pace. This includes the relationship between President Trump's White House and his sports world influence operation; masquerading as a beacon of reason for the fan craving "apolitical" (they mean right-wing) sports coverage, amid a landscape of "overly emotional," "BLM-loving" "...
Danny Haiphong Dishes on NBA Strike, China & Hoops Diplomacy and the Movement's Next Play?
September 09, 2020 14:10 - 1 hour - 137 MBRedspin Sports' Nate Wallace (@NateWallace9 on Twitter) is joined by Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong (@SpiritOfHo on Twitter) to dish on the implications of the NBA Strike, left criticism of it, the new cold war with China and how it relates to basketball 🏀 and much more. @RedspinSports (Twitter and Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/RedspinSports
Convo with Michael Serazio, author of "The Power of Sports: Media & Spectacle in American Culture"
August 21, 2020 05:26 - 1 hour - 155 MBPart discussion, part interview, Nate Wallace & Mike Serazio hit on a compelling mix of contemporary issues that relate to topics he writes about in his book, and an illuminating deep dive into the book itself. If you want to better understand why (love them or hate them) sports are so powerful in U.S. society, you''re going to want to check out this episode. Michael Serazio is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Boston College. His research and teaching focuses on ...
Episode 1 Part II: The US sports landscape amid Pandemic, Police Brutality & Rebellion
August 21, 2020 01:53 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBIn Episode 1 of Redspin Sports, co-hosts Nate Wallace and Michael Sampson analyze and discuss the upsurge of radical politics in U.S. professional sports amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests. Redspin Sports co-hosts Nathaniel Wallace & Michael Sampson breakdown dramatic shifts in power dynamics within the world of sports, & why a political analysis of sports & vice versa helps to explain both worlds with politically and socially relevant discourse on Covid-19, po...
Max Blumenthal joins Redspin Sports to discuss the NFL's Unholy Alliance with Apartheid Israel & much more
July 31, 2020 16:03 - 1 hour - 187 MBRedspin Sports founder Nate Wallace -is joined by the show's co-host- Mike Sampson Part I of this two-part special with Max Blumenthal, Editor of The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) and co-host of the Moderate Rebels (@Moderate_Rebels) podcast, & the co-host of Redspin Sports Michael Sampson, an organizer with the Jacksonville (Florida) Community Action Committee (@JaxTakesAction), where they have galvanized public support around the demand for Community Control of the Police. The Israel Lobby's...