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Each episode, we go deep on a different sports book, from the latest best sellers to hall of fame classics from the pantheon. Join us for some serious sports talk.
David Hsu & David Bryant hosts Sports Literati, a sports show with 29 episodes published.
In this episode, the Sports Literati discuss the simple-titled book, Football, by Chuck Klosterman. The discussion then turns to the differences between the NFL and the CFL as well as to rugby, eventually veering to the
It’s time for another episode of Sports Literati, this time on Sean Pronger’s book, Journeyman, which goes over his career in the National Hockey League as a “guy on the fourth line,” one of those players that constantly
In this week’s episode, the Sports Literati mourn last year’s devastating Blue Jays World Series loss while they discuss Joe Posnanski’s book on the history of baseball. They also discuss whether they could write their o
This week, the Sports Literati take a look at one of the books that originated Dave’s obsession with sports books — A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein. This classic in the sports genre deals with Bob Knight’s leader
The Sports Literati convene to discuss Premiership soccer through Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg's book about the history of the economics of the Premiership. They take a look at the business of premiere league footb
This week, in a special collaboration with Medhum.org, The Sports Literati sit down and discuss The Tennis Partner, a masterpiece of medical humanities that just happened to be a sports book!
This month, the Sports Literati convene to discuss Arnold Schwarzneggar's classic sports memoir about his early days as a bodybuilder and his quest to go from Mr. Universe to Hollywood.
This month, the Sports Literati sit down to ponder and ruminate over one of the most high brow, intellectual books they have ever read. Okay, maybe not. But it just might be one of the most fun books they've ever read.
This month on the Sports Literati, we get out of our comfort zone and test our range by reading David Epstein's ideas about the power of diverse groups and why early specialization might not be great for children.
The Sports Literati reconvene to talk about the beautiful game, through the lens of Franklin Foer's classic soccer book How Soccer Explains the World , first published in 2004.
The Sports Literati revisits one of the seminal sports books of the 1990s: The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith. A close examination of the 1990-91 Chicago Bulls, we talk about an up and coming Michael Jordan and how misery jus
The Sports Literati convene to discuss how the United States 8 man crew rose from the depths of the Great Depression to take down the big, bad Nazis at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
The Sports Literati enter the world of mixed martial arts for the first time, as they dissect the memoir of Rickson Gracie, the undefeated legend of Brazilian Jujitsu.
The Sports Literati take a look at Kent Babb's fly-on-the wall account of the 2019 Edna Carr high school football team as it sought a fourth consecutive Louisiana state championship. The book examines the hopelessness af
The Sports Literati convene to discuss John Krakauer's seminal classic about an ascent on Mount Everest that goes horribly wrong. What constitutes a sport? How do intelligent human beings manage to make such a series of
This week, the Sports Literati convene to discuss Linsanity, one of Dave's favourite topics (try to guess which Dave!). Matthew Salesses is a Korean American writer who has written, as far as we know, the first literary
The Sports Literati turn back the pages on a hockey classic, Peter Gzowski's The Game of Our Lives , a behind the scenes account of the 1980-81 Edmonton Oilers, led by a young Wayne Gretzky. They also discuss hockey as C
This month, the Sports Literati reconvenes to discuss the memoir of their collective, favourite basketball player of all time! And no, it's not Lebron James!
This month, the Sports Literati reconvenes to discuss Mike Tyson and his totally raw and visceral autobiography Undisputed Truth . Is Mike Tyson a good guy or a bad guy? Who's the biggest villain in Tyson's life? Join th
This month, the two Daves convene to discuss America's past time. They reminisce about their own memories of baseball and listening to games on the radio before diving into Jared Diamond's book about how the new science
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