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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 the Redspin Sports podcast, for another edition of the new weekly segment "The Red Spin Report," to discuss the impacts of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on sports in the US, why so many college football players are committed to playing despite the public health crisis, and the latest worrisome statements from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and newly-elected Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (former Auburn and Ole Miss head football coach).

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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 new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report." They discuss the implications of the University of New Mexico having relocated its entire NCAA football team to Las Vegas to circumvent New Mexico COVID-19 restrictions, the lasting consequences of NBA GM Daryl Morey's incendiary comments about Hong Kong, and how the NBA is working to repair its frayed ties with Chinese fans following the incident last year.

The role of grassroots basketball diplomacy taking place between players from the U.S. and China is explored, and its potential to foster solidarity in the face of the usual suspects of DC think-tankers ramping up their warmongering rhetoric as a hail mary to try and stop the immoveable force that is China's rise as a rival superpower to the U.S. on the global stage.

The Beijing museum dedicated to Brooklyn, NY hoops legend Stephon Marbury is discussed in this context, along with comments by Allen Iverson (AI aka The Answer), and finally the utter buffoonery of Jason Whitlock's ridiculous commentary on Black Lives Matter, "anti-Americanism," and red meat doses of China-bashing.

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Listener Note: Skip ahead to the 14 minute mark if you don't want (or have time) to listen to Danny and I do a little pre-show riffing as we get ready to rock and roll.

Thumbnail Image: Brooklyn, NY native and former NBA star, Stephon Marbury, playing with China's Beijing Ducks where he has become a cultural icon and nothing short of a rock star.

Danny Haiphong and Nate Wallace have had enough of Outkick (the Coverage) spewing the most infantile brand of (pun intended) "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence," and the worst of it going unchecked in mainstream (politics and sports) media.

These two clowns have built a mini-empire by drawing in every disaffected loser who feels like their safe space of sports fandom's been imploded by "woke athletes," "cancel culture," and an unholy amalgamation of athlete activism and what they truly believe to be a once upon a time pure sports world (i.e. only permitting displays of jingoism, militarism, copaganda like politics that these pea brains believe are patriotic not political), that's now tainted by the influence of what Jason Whitlock like to call "BLM: Bigots Love Marxism" HAHAHAHAHA.

The show will focus on Outkick's laughably ahistorical claims regarding American Exceptionalism's role in the world; Travis claims that the U.S. has consistently made the world a better place by exporting "our values" (which to Travis is of course the typical abstract "freedom" we here from Beltway regime change fanatics). Travis seems to think we were merely helping the people of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua by funding right-wing death squads and imposing on them totally undemocratic regimes. Travis believes Cuba was a bastion of freedom prior to Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, despite the fact that 90% of the Cuban people they were illiterate, lacked any worker's rights, and were wretchedly exploited for the benefit of U.S. imperialism's profits (especially organized crime's profits who ran the show at Havana's casinos). Travis is so misinformed (perhaps deliberately since telling the truth would mean undermining his entrenched class-interests).

Worst of all of this is Trump, Travis, and Whitlock's obsession with demonizing the People's Republic of China, as their hypocrisy on so many levels is utterly astounding, even for these three!

We will go into much greater detail, and certainly won't forget to roast Jason Whitlock's shameful transformation from respectable journalist who at least pretended to care about issues of race and social justice, to becoming the black man Donald Trump and Clay Travis rely on to back-up the (at least in their minds) grant legitimacy to their awful takes on "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence," athlete activism, militarism, jingoism, and the posthumous character assassinations of the black victims of fatal (or in Jacob Blake's case life-altering) police shootings.

Lastly, you don't want to miss our riff on Clay Travis hilariously citing Trump's moving the U.S. embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a reason why everyday Americans should throw their support behind him -although to be fair it's not as if Biden will do anything to reverse Trump's outrageously criminal decision.

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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 and Margaret are co-hosts of "The Left Lens" which can be found by visiting Black Agenda Report's YouTube channel or wherever you listen to podcasts. His articles have also appeared in publications such as MintPressNews, Counterpunch, The American Herald Tribune, The Center for Global Research (Canada) and The Herald (Zimbabwe). Haiphong has frequently appeared on Black Agenda Radio, CPRNews with Don Debar, The Taylor Report, RT, and Sputnik International. His work was featured in former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s latest book How the U.S. Creates “Sh*thole Countries (2018).

Most recently, Danny co-authored a critically important book for the times in which we find ourselves along with Roberto Sirvent: "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: a People’s History of Fake News, From the Revolutionary War to the War On Terror."

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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 Red Spin Report." They discuss the Time Magazine article written by "The End of Sport" podcast hosts: Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Johanna Mellis, & Derek Silva, featuring anonymous comments by a Power Five CFB player that the" whole goal" of the NCAA football league's restart "is to make everyone feel like things are normal—which they definitely aren't," and the importance of grappling with the numerous and increasingly difficult contradictions within football.

*Note on the thumbnail image: this is from National Signing Day 2011 when Nate was still coaching high school football at inner-city Jacksonville, FL Robert E. Lee H.S. The fact the school is STILL named for Robert E. Lee says something in itself, but the picture features from L to R: QB/DE Darius Darden signing with Tuskegee University, DE Alonzo Jackson signing with Presbyterian College, and Alex Dodds signing with Tuskegee University. The coaches are from L to R: current Lee head coach (at the time assistant) & Florida Gators star receiver from 2000-2004: OJ Small, then head coach and former star Florida Gators bandit back (hybrid linebacker/safety position) from 1988-1992: Myrick Anderson, and finally yours truly clapping it up on the right. I would name the cheerleaders too, but unfortunately don't know their names.

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This segment was recorded on Friday, October 23rd, 2020.

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Former Florida State Football fullback (2002-2005) and host of the Sports Den (airs weeknights between 8-10) with Denny Thompson on 1010XL/92.5 FM sports radio in Jacksonville, Fla. "Big Game" James Coleman joins Nate & Mike to dish on everything from the ethics of pandemic football, history of gladiator sports, Bobby Bowden/PK Sam Trump endorsement controversy, the sham of calling unpaid athletic laborers "student-athletes," how Covid has ripped the facade off and exposed many already existing pathologies within collegiate athletics and society at large, and some riffing on Florida State Football and even our lowly hometown team: the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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James explains the genesis of his foundation's ironic name, MFTK (it's an acronym and you won't believe what for), and the great work he's doing in helping to provide backpacks for the kids and mutual aid to the people most in need in both Jacksonville and Tallahassee.

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This episode was recorded on October 25th, 2020.

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In this weekly (Friday) segment of "By Any Means Necessary" on Radio Sputnik, Sean and Jacquie are joined for another installment of "The Red Spin Report" by Nate Wallace, co-host of the Redspin Sports podcast. They break down why the NFL continues to be plagued by coronavirus outbreaks, attempts by NCAA football coaches to ensure the "gravy train keeps flowing," and how the lack of a coherent national COVID-19 plan is exacerbating the health crisis in athletics.

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This segment was recorded on Friday, October 16th, 2020.

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Nate Wallace hosts Part I of a Redspin Sports series looking into unchecked right-wing sports narratives; particularly the lunacy coming out out of Outkick the Coverage's Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock at a staggering pace. This includes the relationship between President Trump's White House and his sports world influence operation; masquerading as a beacon of reason for the fan craving "apolitical" (they mean right-wing) sports coverage, amid a landscape of "overly emotional," "BLM-loving" "woke sports journos."

Amazingly, the purveyors of hyper-political trash (i.e. Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock at "Outkick the Coverage") present their "Outkick" platform as a safe-haven for the sports fan who's fed up with "all this politics and sports mixing" (translation: they're really saying they're fed up with the Great Satan -aka Colin Kaepernick). The utter absurdity of this position collapses upon a minefield of contradictions. These fans (nor Travis or Whitlock) have no issue with politics and sports so long as it's the politics of American exceptionalism, or uncritical adoration of U.S. militarism -regardless of the facts they claim to pursue so objectively given their unwavering commitment to "journalistic integrity." I can go on and on, but it's all in the video so check it out!

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Recorded on October 12th, 2020 in Jersey City, NJ.

Redspin Sports' Nate Wallace (@NateWallace9 on Twitter) is joined by Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong (@SpiritOfHo on Twitter) to dish on the implications of the NBA Strike, left criticism of it, the new cold war with China and how it relates to basketball 🏀 and much more.

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Part discussion, part interview, Nate Wallace & Mike Serazio hit on a compelling mix of contemporary issues that relate to topics he writes about in his book, and an illuminating deep dive into the book itself. If you want to better understand why (love them or hate them) sports are so powerful in U.S. society, you''re going to want to check out this episode.

Michael Serazio is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Boston College. His research and teaching focuses on media production, advertising, popular culture, political communication, and new media. His latest book is The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture (available from NYU Press). A behind-the-scenes investigation that draws upon dozens of interviews with leaders and professionals in the media business, "The Power of Sports" provocatively analyzes how sports culture explains and reflects contemporary American life – from journalism to politics to commercialism to gender.

Professor Serazio received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he won the National Communication Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. He also holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of San Francisco and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. A former staff writer for the Houston Press, an alternative newsweekly, his reporting was recognized as a finalist for the Livingston Awards and he has continued to write essays on media and culture for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, Bloomberg, and Salon.

A native San Diegan, Mike enjoys rooting (often frustratingly) for the Padres and Chargers, and, above all, spending time with his wife and daughter. His webpage, with links to writing, can be found at his website in the link below.

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In Episode 1 of Redspin Sports, co-hosts Nate Wallace and Michael Sampson analyze and discuss the upsurge of radical politics in U.S. professional sports amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests.

Redspin Sports co-hosts Nathaniel Wallace & Michael Sampson breakdown dramatic shifts in power dynamics within the world of sports, & why a political analysis of sports & vice versa helps to explain both worlds with politically and socially relevant discourse on Covid-19, police brutality and rebellion (Part II).

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