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Michael Sampson, co-host of RedSpin Sports, joins in Bob Schlehuber and Michelle Witte for Radio Sputnik's "Political Misfits" Foul Play segment to talk to about Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson facing 16 lawsuits alleging sexual assault, and the in the contradictory nature of the in your face disparities between the NCAA men's and women’s basketball tournament; an organization (more like a cartel) that makes it a point of emphasis to stamp "EQUALITY" on each of its NCAA Tournament March Madness basketball courts. Redspin Sports is officially on the record in support of replacing "EQUALITY" with "HYPOCRISY" just in time for the upcoming Men's and Women's Final Four.

Recorded and aired live in Washington, DC on March 24th, 2021.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the shocking disparity between the men’s and women’s athletic facilities at the NCAA basketball tournament exposed by Oregon’s Sedona Prince, how the league’s model of unpaid labor makes March Madness the most profitable postseason TV deal in sports, and how LSU worked to bury sexual misconduct allegations against players.

Recorded and aired on Friday, March 19th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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This is a two-part episode. Be on the lookout for Part II to drop on March 18th or 19th.

Part I of Nate Wallace's conversation with Professor Derrick E. White, author of the award-winning book, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M and the History of Black College Football," on HBCU sporting congregations and their significance both historically and present-day. Nate and Prof. White get into a lot of topics from the book and the discussion takes off from there; taking us back in time while also making illuminating connections to how this history is as relevant as ever not just in the world of sport, but also society at large.

Follow Professor Derrick White on Twitter: @blackstar1906

Get your Copy of the Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Tears-Gaither-Football/dp/1469652447

I was remiss in the intro not to mention that Prof. White's a co-host of "The Black Athlete Podcast" with Grand Valley State University Prof. Louis Moore. They produce amazing content & Redspin Sports encourages everyone to checkout their work (Apple Podcast link below).

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-black-athlete/id1454162935

Prof. Derrick White's Bio: Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, I earned my Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. I use the lens of black organizational life to examine modern Black history, sports history, and intellectual history. My most recent book, Blood, Sweat, and Tears chronicles the development of black college football in the twentieth century, and is among the first comprehensive histories of black college athletics. Using the biography of Alonzo “Jake” Gaither and the history of the football program at Florida A&M University (FAMU), he shows how black college football and its supporters created successful programs during segregation by relying on a network of athletic enthusiasts in the media, on campuses, and in the community. I have published articles in New Politics, The Journal of African American History, the C.L.R. James Journal, the Journal of African American Studies, and the Florida Historical Quarterly. I co-host “The Black Athlete Podcast” with Professor Louis Moore, Grand Valley State University, and I tweet from @blackstar1906.

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Topical Articles and Links to Checkout if you want to Learn more:

The next two links are an interview RJ Young of Fox Sports did with Prof. White in 2020, and a February 2021 article Young wrote on Florida A&M's Jake Gaither, Bob Hayes, and black college football.

https://soundcloud.com/woosahrj/blood-sweat-and-tears-with-dr-derrick-e-white

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/black-history-month-stories-bob-hayes-jake-gaither-dallas-cowboys-famu

A few more links to articles related to Prof. White, his book, and the topics he covers in it.

https://ussporthistory.com/2019/10/05/review-of-blood-sweat-and-tears/

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652443/blood-sweat-and-tears/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7CgDiwSks (Prof. White outlines his book published by UNC Press in this video for UNC Press's YouTube channel)

This interview with Prof. White was recorded on Friday, March 12th, 2021.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of the Redspin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Redspin Report." They discuss Jackson State football and the water crisis afflicting the majority-black Mississippi city, and the intersections between neoliberalism and the gentrification of sports.

Recorded and aired on March 12th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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Follow Danny Haiphong on Twitter: @SpiritofHo

Danny Haiphong is a socialist activist, writer, and political analyst. For the last six years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report, and now serves as co-editor along with Margaret Kimberly.

Danny's book co-authored with Roberto Sirvent is titled: "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News--From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror." It is a must read for any U.S. progressive who recognizes U.S. imperialism as the fundamental contradiction keeping all these other systems of oppression in place and plowing ahead with barbaric and deadly sanctions against nations of the Global South that dare challenge U.S. neoliberal hegemony, and its most potent ideological weapon, anti-Communism.

On top of all of that, Danny is a former H.S. basketball star in his hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, attending the same high school as legends such as Patrick Ewing and the late great Len Bias. Needless to say, when he isn't writing and organizing against U.S. imperialism and advocating for socialism rooted in international solidarity, you can probably catch him watching his beloved Boston Celtics.

Derek Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at King's University College at Western University.

Here's his bio in his own words:

I co-host a podcast called ​The End of Sport , which you can find on iTunes, Google Play Music, and Spotify, or simply click the link below for a sneak peek. I teach a number of courses in sociology and criminology, including introductory sociology and criminology, quantitative and qualitative research methods, sociology of sport, sociology of catastrophe, critical security studies, surveillance, and sociology of terrorism.

My areas of interest include critical sociology and criminology, sport, punishment, terrorism and ‘radicalization’ studies. Broadly speaking, my research focuses on how we make sense of a variety of social issues and the interventions we craft to alleviate associated harm. More specifically, I have written on Canadian and international counter-radicalization programs, the diffusion of transnational counter-terrorism policing, practices of 'scouting' high school football athletes, and constructions of national identity in response to tragedy, and cultural understandings of crime and punishment in sport. My work can be found in Punishment and Society, Crime, Media, Culture, Sociology of Sport Journal, Sociological Forum, Race & Class, Educational Gerontology, TIME, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, The Daily Beast and ​Jacobin Magazine.

In addition to my scholarship, I serve on the editorial board of the Sociology of Sport Journal, as OCUFA Director on King's University College Faculty Association, and am co-editor of Emerald's Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance book series.

​I am currently working on two SSHRC-funded projects. The first is entitled "How radicalization has become the dominant framework for understanding terrorism." This project is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2021) and traces the emergence of radicalization as the primary framework for understanding transitions toward political violence. The second, funded by a SSHRC Partnership Engage COVID-19 Initiative Grant (2020-21) looks at how participants in serious leisure activities make sense of the loss of sport during COVID-19 lockdown and how they perceive risk as they return to activity during and after the pandemic.


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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of the weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the Major League Baseball Player’s Association’s vocal support for the organizing drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, how an amicus curae brief filed by former players -like former Arkansas Razorbacks phenom Darren McFadden- in support of the NCAA in its landmark Supreme Court case ultimately undercut the league’s messaging, and how the case of former Auburn Tigers and NFL RB Tre Mason highlights long-standing failures to address the dangers of high-impact athletics.

Recorded and aired on March 5th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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Former Indiana Hoosiers player and Bob Knight assistant basketball coach, Dan Dakich, who now works for ESPN calling college basketball games and hosting a sports talk radio show on 107.5 FM "The Fan" in Indianapolis. At issue in this installment of Nate Wallace's weekly Redspin Report on Radio Sputnik's "BAMNecessary" with Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman, is Dakich's M.O. of attacking unpaid college athletes for "quitting," calling for Duke Basketball's (unpaid) Jalen Johnson a quitter for making a business decision to prepare for the 2021 NBA Draft, rather than continue playing this money grab of a college basketball season amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Even worse is Dakich's threatening sexual violence against End of Sport co-host and college professor, Johanna Mellis, and doxing fellow EOS co-host and professor Nathan Kalman-Lamb after being unable to respond to legitimate criticism regarding Dakich's latest disgusting remarks.

We also discuss the New Cold War against China taking hold in Canada with a mainstream lawmaker's appeal that the 2022 Winter Olympic Games should be moved from China to Canada on human rights grounds concerning an alleged Uyghur Genocide; a claim made only by a right-wing evangelical zealot named Dr. Adrian Zenz, who is a bizarre and dangerous figure from the German Christian Right.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canada-should-not-host-the-olympics-ever

Checkout some of the developments that have ensued in the days since we recorded.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...​

https://www.newsobserver.com/article2...​

https://thespun.com/more/sports-media...​

https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/dan-...​

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports...​

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The Jalen Johnson opt-out is a totally legitimate decision the young man made given the fact that "loyalty" is never a two way street whenever a player's presence becomes something a university deems to be not in their interests.

We get into all of this and more on this edition of the Redspin Report.

Recorded and aired on February 26th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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Nathaniel (aka Nate) Wallace recently sat down with esteemed author, attorney, law professor, labor and antiwar activist, Dan Kovalik, to discuss a range of topics and their direct and indirect connections to the central role sport plays in US society -and its effects on the world outside the borders of the U.S.

Audio only Podcast Version: video episode will soon be released on YouTube.

Daniel Kovalik graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1993. He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019. While with the USW, he worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. He is the author of several books, including his most recent, “The Plot To Overthrow Venezuela, How The US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil,” which includes a Foreword by Oliver Stone.

Follow Dan on Twitter: @danielmkovalik

Checkout the link to Dan's Latest Book (below):

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-More-War/Dan-Kovalik/9781510755291

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Recorded and aired live on Wednesday, February 17th, 2021.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of the weekly segment, "The Red Spin Report." They discuss Rush Limbaugh's brief stint at ESPN, how the racist rhetoric which characterized his career quickly led to his termination, and the death of former NFL wideout Vincent Jackson.

Recorded and aired live on Friday, February 19th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of the weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the move by NBA officials to force teams to play the national anthem, the spike in coronavirus Tampa-area health officials expect after the super-spreader Super Bowl, and the permanent health impacts of COVID-19 on Vanderbilt’s Demi Washington.

Recorded and aired live on Friday, February 12th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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