In this week’s Zoom’d episode, it’s the return of Kyndall and a new segment, The Hoops Off. We discuss Black Women writers in Sports during Women Crush Wednesday, the start of the National Women’s Soccer League and the power of their platform to support Black Lives Matter. We also discuss WNBA and NBA returning, Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR saga and much more.

Black and WOC Sports Writers(just a few):
Jasmine Baker
Dorothy J Gentry
Ari Chambers
The Next
Sports Talk with Erica Ayala
Girl Sport Talk TV
Khristina Williams
Renee Montgomery
Jenn Hatfield
Just Women’s Sports

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Antonio Williams, sports analyst, journalist, and host of The Sports Connect, unpacks his career with NBA, ESPN, and NIKE to share his insights in today’s Sports. He also draws from his personal love of the WNBA and his own experiences as a men’s basketball player to share perspectives on the game, society and the planned return of NBA & WNBA in a year of Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter urgency.

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Ari Chambers, social and talent for Bleacher Report, House of Highlights and HighlightHER, joins us on this Hoops Talk Podcast Zoom’d episode. We learn how Chambers continues her advocacy while self-caring, her career journey from modeling to the WNBA to HighlightHER and how authenticity is always key. Plus… Drew Brees is Phony Baloney, black squares and NBA is back.

Resources for Allies and Co-Conspirators:
Almost Studios Signs of Protest by Odes Roberts & Adriana Marin

The Sit List: 5 things you can do to support the Black community: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/06/04/the-sit-list-5-things-you-can-do-to-support-the-black-community

The Audre Lorde Project

Act Blue Bail Fund - Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds and racial justice organizers.

Films:
13th
LA 92
Moonlight
If Beale Street Could Talk
Waves

Twitter:@ariivory
@wegotgame2
@Khristina2334 (Founder, Girls Talk Sports TV)
Dorothy J. Gentry
Jemele Hill
@mathewacherry
@ira

#AmplifyMelanatedVoices

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Mediaite Sports Writing
Calling Game Podcast

Kelsey Trainor, Entertainment Lawyer at Abrams Media, producer, and sports writer, joins us on this Hoops Talk Podcast Zoom’d episode. We learn Trainor’s career journey had twists and turns before landing in Sports. She shares insights and tips on how she navigated her journey and how that led her to be a lawyer, a strong advocate for women in sports and a Sports writer. Lastly Trainor discusses the legal details in the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s Equal Pay appeal and the Zion Williamson lawsuit. Also: Maya Moore & NBA in DisneyWorld.

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Keia Clarke, COO for the New York Liberty, joins us on this Hoops Talk Podcast Zoom’d episode. Along with sharing insights to her 10 seasons career journey, Clarke also discusses how the New York Liberty organization is pivoting during the Coronavirus, which includes, the first WNBA virtual draft, Sabrina Ionescu, the NY Liberty’s continuing outreach to players, fans, and the community, and why the WNBA is important.

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First female Latina Public Address Announcer for the MLB New York Mets and Co-host for PIX Morning News, Marysol Castro joins us on this Zoom’d episode. Marysol shares her career journey and sets her Wikipedia page straight! Parades, weather, morning news, Prince Harry and Derek Jeter all factor into her Sports story. We also recap Episodes 7 & 8 of ESPN’s The Last Dance, Michael Jordan documentary.

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We are joined by Jasmine Baker, Women’s Sports Culturalist and award-winning journalist, on our latest Zoom’d episode. Our conversation covered a range of topics, including her career as a woman covering sports, the general coverage of women’s sports and athletes, the WNBA, her latest production, Players of The New School, for SB Nation’s Swish Appeal and much more. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram: @WeGotGame2

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Jordan Danberry, 2019-20 Mississippi State Women’s Basketball Guard, joins us in our latest Zoom episode to discuss her graduate year as a Mississippi Bulldog under Coach Vic Schaefer, her leadership on this 2019-20 season’s team, and her experiences surrounding an NCAA final four run that was prematurely cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic. We also dive into the 2020 NFL Virtual draft with Kyndall. #WCW

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Krysten Peek, NBA Analyst for Yahoo Sports, joins us in our latest Zoom episode to discuss how she is dealing with quarantine, Jalen Green’s announcement, how the G-League is evolving, the NBA Season and much more. We also dig into the WNBA virtual draft and what worked and what did not work.

High School Sneak Peek: Zion Williamson vs. LaMelo Ball in the biggest AAU game ever.

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In this episode we are joined by Emalee Nelson, PhD student at the University of Hawaii, to discuss her dissertation on the Cuban Women who played baseball in the All-American Girls Baseball League - which was fictionalized in the popular 1992 sports comedy movie, A League of Their Own. This conversation leads to socio-economics, gender equality, racism and the American dream for Women in Sports. We also dive into the #WeKeepPlaying panel, WNBA 2020 Draft, NBA HORSE and much more.

Emalee Nelson Latest Projects
Emalee on Social: Instagram | Twitter

Extra Credit reading recommendations:
Shultz, Jaime. Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women's Sport. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Cahn, Susan. Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women Sport. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Burgos, Adrian. Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Ramirez, Catherine. The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism and the Cultural Politics of Memory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.

Iber, Jorge, Regalado, Samuel O., Alamillo, José M., and Arnoldo De León. Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identify, and Acceptance. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2011.

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