Sportuality

3.5 billion fans. One game. Every four years. We break down why the World Cup might be the largest faith community on Earth, from the four C's of religion to the Hand of God to Messi as a messiah figure. The holy month is here.

Damar Hamlin died on a football field and came back. This conversation is about everything after. Three years on from his cardiac arrest, the Buffalo Bills safety joins us at Sport Beach in Cannes to talk about the life he got back, and why he believes he never had to become anyone new. We get into meeting the Pope and the game ball headed home to his Catholic high school, the calm pre-playoff spe...

BONUS DROP: We're on the ground at Sport Beach for Cannes Lions, and Gotham Chopra and Varun Soni are unpacking why sports is the closest thing we have to a modern religion, from Kobe as "the original evangelist" to that surreal White House UFC night.

NBA Champion and Finals MVP Jaylen Brown joins Gotham Chopra and Varun Soni live on the Sport Beach stage at Cannes for a conversation about the inner game of basketball. Jaylen opens up about the paper he wrote at 19 at UC Berkeley titled "Religion of Sport," why he tells himself nothing instead of positive self-talk to reach flow state, and how underwater training taught him to stay relaxed unde...

Victor Wembanyama might be the most unstoppable force in basketball. He might also be an alien. At 7'5", Wemby moves like a guard, blocks shots no one has any business reaching, and spent his off-season at the Shaolin Monastery, training in kung fu and sitting in silent meditation with 100 monks. This week, Gotham Chopra and Varun Soni are joined by ESPN's Ramona Shelburne to unpack the most "reli...

Can a basketball game be a religious miracle? After 53 years, the Knicks finally found out. Gotham Chopra and Varun Soni are two true, irrational, diehard sports fans coming at the same question from opposite directions. Gotham is the filmmaker and Religion of Sports co-founder who has been in the room with the GOATs, from Kobe to Brady to Serena. Varun is the Dean of Religious Life at USC, one of...

In the debut episode of Sportuality, Religion of Sports co-founder Gotham Chopra and Dean of Religious Life at USC Varun Soni, take on the oldest question in both religion and fandom: suffering. Varun unpacks four decades as a Clippers fan, the worst owner in sports, and Buddha's first truth that life is suffering. Gotham walks through 86 years of Red Sox heartbreak, the Patriots nobody could watc...

Gotham Chopra is the GOAT whisperer - from Kobe to Brady to Steph, Serena, Simone, AROD, Conor McGregor and more. He’s filmed Aaron Rodgers going deep on Ayahuasca, ridden shot gun on all night gambling benders with Dana White, and played horse with Kobe Bryant. Varun Soni is the University Chaplain and Dean of Religion at USC - the most culturally and spiritually diverse school on the planet. The...