Dr. LA Jennings joins the show to discuss her book on the history of women in fighting sports, as well as offer her expert opinions on the trajectory of UFC/MMA, Rhonda Rousey, and training MMA fighters in her Denver-area gym.

Dr. Mike Monsour and Dr. Eric James sit down to discuss the origins, purposes, and ramifications of seeing athletes and coaches as role models.

What if sports are just our socialist outlet in a capitalistic society? Huh? Think about that one. Professor Brian Schrader returns this week to discuss the spectacle that is the College Football Playoff Rankings Show and how the sports media, the fans, and the selection committee agree and differ in the narratives they lean on to make sense of college football.

The Mizzou Tigers football team offered a rare moment when sports, race, politics, and class collide in ways no one can avoid. This week Dr. Katia Campbell and David Kottenstette join the show to discuss recent events at the University of Missouri and what they means beyond the sphere of sports.

If sports video games are just watered-down, purified versions of sports, rhetorical artifacts that minimize the violence, injury, and real-world truth professional athletes face, what are the ramifications? We discuss this in this week's episode.

On the heals of the Lamar Odom story, we discussed the impact of fame and celebrity culture on the treatment of personal issues. More importantly, we also discussed the role of cultural narratives on understanding and framing such stories through lenses of race and class. It takes some time to unfold, but stick around because it's worth the wait.

This week Professor Brian Schrader joined the show to discuss current issues arising within the fantasy sports industry and his work on rhetoric, governance, and Major League Baseball.

This week we talk about sports fandom, its mystique, its function, and its ramifications.

Dr. Eric James talks about the rise of extreme fitness programs (i.e. CrossFit)and the social, cultural, and political significance of the moment.

This week we talked with Dr. Sarah Fields from the University of Colorado-Denver about gender, law, and sports. Topics included concussions in the NFL, gender and concussions, and the legal process involved in Deflategate.