The End of Sport

In episode four, Derek and Nathan chat with Jules Boykoff, Professor and Department Chair of Politics and Government at Pacific University. He is the author of four books on the Olympics, including Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso, 2016), Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London (Rutgers University Press, 2014), Celebration Capitalism and the O...

In this episode, we have the great and highly unlikely pleasure of speaking to Michael Hsu, a Regent at the University of Minnesota since 2015 representing Congressional District 6. As a leader in higher education, he is one of only three Regents in the United States to publicly speak out against the system of compensation in college sport, including in a column he published on Deadspin. This wide...

In this episode, Derek and Nathan dig in to the place of athletic labor and fandom in the midst of global health and economic crisis. What does it say when Dr. Anthony Fauci is calling for a return to sport even as he tries to protect the rest of US society? The hosts zoom in on professional baseball and college football to examine the health and economic stakes of restarting sports at the expense...

Welcome to The End of Sport Podcast! In this first episode of the show, Derek Silva and Nathan Kalman-Lamb introduce themselves to listeners and explain the project of the show. Derek is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King's University College at Western University. You can find some examples of Derek's recent scholarship on sport, national identity, and crime and punishmen...