Where we go beyond scores, statistics, and personalities to focus on issues and controversies in sports worlds. A companion to the textbook Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies, this podcast gives a behind the scenes look at the textbook with stories from our lives as scholars and athletes as well as providing analysis of ongoing issues and controversies in contemporary sport worlds. We will also have guests who are content experts on topics covered in the book.Students, professors, and anyone else interested in the sociology of sport will find our discussions engaging. We welcome hearing your thoughts and analysis so please engage with us through social media about the textbook or on any of the topics we cover in this podcast.Join the Discord community: https://discord.gg/QDzzETYThv
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Recent episodes include "S3 EP 9, Disability & Sports" (27 August 2026, 68 minutes), "S3 EP8, Women’s Sports and Market Justice" (5 August 2026, 72 minutes), and "S3 EP7 - Sports, Imperialism, Resistance" (27 July 2026, 71 minutes).
Sports in Society Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 68 minutes across 38 episodes.
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Episode #9
On this episode Andrea Bundon and Meredith Wing discuss disabilities and sports. They begin by helping listeners understand some of the key concepts in this area. They go to outline some the complexities of study...
Episode #8
Women’s sports are currently experiencing tremendous excitement and rapid growth, much of which is driven by market forces. But what does that mean for social justice? Ajhanai Keaton (UConn) and Roc Rochon (Pacific...
Episode #7
Chen Chen (UConn) joins the podcast to discuss sports, imperialism, and anti-imperialist activism. This episode is relevant to chapters 6, 8, 11, and 13. In it, we trace the meaning of imperialism and how it manifests...
Episode #6
Jess Kirby and Marissa Baranauskas join us to talk about how athlete health is a concern of gender justice. We discuss how sedimented ideas about gender in sports negatively effects girls and women, especially regarding...
Episode #5
Derek Silva and Nathan Kalman-Lamb join the podcast to discuss their book The End of College Football. This episode is relevant to chapter 6, 8, 9, 11, and 14 since we discuss violence and abuse in college football as...
Episode #4
Faye Linda Wachs (CSU, Pomona) joins us to discuss the excitement and passion in producing sports knowledge. We walk through her sports and scholarly biography to understand the passions and politics that drive her. We...
Episode #2
Tracie Canada joined the podcast to discuss her research on Black collegiate football players, their labor, and care. This episode addresses chapters 8, 9, 11, and 14 of Sports in Society. We begin discussing Dr...
Sports in Society Podcast
Drs. Jessica Kirby (UCCS) and Cassandra Phoenix (Durham Univ) join us to discuss aging and sports participation across the life course. We begin by challenging the ageist narrative of aging as a process of decline. We...
Episode #11
Cheryl Cooky and Molly Cotner join us to talk about the complexities and contradictions of Taylor Swift and her engagements with the NFL. Contemporary feminism and postfeminism are central to the discussion: Ways in...
Episode #10
Anna Baeth and Madeleine Pape join us to discuss the highly politicized and complicated issue of trans-athletes in contemporary sports. At the heart of this discussion is debates about fairness, the meaning sex and...
Episode #9
Michael Messner (USC) and Michela Musto (Brown Univ) join us to talk about how feminist sociology helps us to produce new, useful knowledge about sports and the social world. This is a companion episode to chapter 2...
Episode #8
Cory Sutela and Shayne McCormick of Medicine Wheel Trail Advocates join us to discuss the pleasures and politics of mountain biking. We talk through how a vision for a well-designed, integrated trail system is developed...
Episode #6
Drs. John Singer and Ajhanai (AJ) Keaton discuss the importance of sociology within sport management frameworks. A key point they make is that there is more than one way to do sport management, and that critical...
Episode #7
In this episode, Drs. Letisha Brown and Tomika Ferguson join us to discuss Black feminist thought in sports studies and praxis. First, Drs. Brown and Ferguson define Black feminism, what makes it unique, impactful, and...
Episode #5
This episode explores the diverse, complicated, and politically charged world of Latine sports, which is directly relevant to chapter 8 on race and ethnicity in sports. We look at the range of terms used to name this...
Episode #4
Dr. C. Keith Harrison and Dr. Brandon E. Martin join us to explore the changing landscape of collegiate sports. We delve deep into the implications of NIL, player salaries, and conference realignments. We discuss how...
Episode #3
Asians, and especially Asian men, are often seen as outside the boundaries of citizenship, manhood, and sport. This episode explores that conundrum with Stan Thangaraj and Constancio Arnoldo. We look at the enthusiasm...
Episode #2
Although religion and race may not immediately seem connected, Jeffrey Scholes (UCCS) and Umer Hussain (Missouri State) join us to explain how they are intimately intertwined in sports. We discuss what is religion and...
Episode #1
Jay and Jeff discuss where the idea for podcast came from and how professors can use it as a companion to the textbook Sports in Society, including suggestions for assignments. We also discuss the role of the many...
Episode #7
We begin this episode discussing why talking about violence in sports can be challenging for some people, especially sports fans. We then address if human nature is inherently violent or drawn to violence. That opens up...
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