In this episode, Nathan sits down with former college basketball coach, professor, and novelist Rus Bradburd to discuss his new novel Big Time and a career working in and around college athletics. The conversation delves into the myriad problems in higher education and college sport today as well as meta questions about how to deliver critique.

You can order Big Time from Etruscan Press here.

On this special episode, Dr. El Jones, former poet laureate of Halifax and Assistant Professor at Mount St. Vincent University, explains exactly why it is imperative that Tennis Canada/Sport Canada cancel the pending Davis Cup match with Israel slated to be played in Halifax in early September.

Our piece on the Davis Cup.

Olympic runner Moh Ahmed joins call to cancel Canada's Davis Cup tie with Israel.

Nathan is joined by friend and eminent hockey scholar Kristi Allain to break down how to understand the Hockey Canada trial and its implications for the sport and Canadian culture.

Read: Olympic runner Moh Ahmed joins call to cancel Canada's Davis Cup tie with Israel

Events: Violence, Exploitation and Harm in Capitalist Sport with Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Daniel Sailofsky, and Derek Silva, September 18th, 2025 6-7PM EST at Hart House, University of Toronto

This episode examines the destruction of athletes, athletics and athletic infrastructure in Palestine by Israeli forces. We discuss how athletes and sports spaces have been targeted, the loss of facilities and opportunities for athletes, and the broader impact on community life and youth development. The conversation addresses the concept of athleticide as part of a wider pattern of cultural and social erasure through sport.

Leyla Hamed is a UK-based football journalist and sports law specialist, originally from Morocco and born in Spain.

We are finally back! After a very long hiatus, the podcast returns with a lengthy recap from Derek and Nathan of some of what has transpired since we last recorded in the United State and Canada, but with a particular emphasis on the ongoing genocidal atrocities in Gaza, with a focus on the so-called aid sites.

Then, Nathan has the pleasure of welcoming Irish Sport for Palestine leader and former Ireland basketball captain Rebecca O'Keeffe on for a discussion of global athlete responsibilities in the face of the genocide. Rebecca talks us through the efforts in Ireland to boycott basketball games against Israel, while Nathan raises the possibility of similar protests in relation to Canada's upcoming Davis Cup tennis match against Israel in Halifax.

In this episode, Nathan has the distinct pleasure of talking to Jesse Mez of the Boston University CTE Center about his team's recent study on the prevalence of CTE among hockey players, developments in the diagnosis of the disease, and the ethical and public health implications of both violent sport and research studying head trauma, among other things.

Jesse Mez is Co-Director of Clinical Research at the Boston University CTE Center and Associate Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine.

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In this episode, Nathan is joined by Max Jordan Nguemeni to discuss all the ways in which college athletes are denied the academic experience they are promised as a wage in exchange for their campus athletic work. We work through the themes explored in the chapter on this topic in Nathan and Derek's new book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, drawing on Max's experiences tutoring athletes at Georgia Tech and Nathan's time teaching at Duke. 

Max Jordan Nguemeni is Assistant Professor and Doctor of Internal Medicine at UCLA and author of the Substack column Adverse Reaction.

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We present this recording of the talks that comprised a panel discussion on challenges to Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting's claims to womanhood hosted by the UNB Faculty of Kinesiology on Friday, November 29th.

The Olympic boxing match in the welterweight category between Italy’s Angela Carini and Algeria’s Imane Khelif lasted less than one minute. This match sparked a firestorm, leading to misinformation and erroneous commentary regarding Khelif’s sex and gender. Various celebrities and online critics alleged falsely that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had allowed a man to compete in women’s boxing. However, these claims were unfounded. Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman, a fact clearly affirmed by both her and the IOC. After Khelif’s initial match, Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting also faced similar scrutiny fueled by misconceptions about her gender identity. Both women ultimately won gold medals in their respective categories.

The panelists examine why these incidents became so controversial in today’s climate of rising global fascism and discuss their political implications, as well as the impact on the experiences of transgender individuals.

 Celeste E. Orr, PhD: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Wendy J. Robbins Professor in Gender & Women's Studies, University of New Brunswick. Their research focuses on intersex studies, disability studies, and queer studies, among other broad areas, and they are the author of the 2022 book, Cripping Intersex, with UBC Press.

Kristi Allain, PhD: Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Physical Culture and Social Life at St. Thomas University. Her research focuses on the dynamics of power at play in sport and Canadian national identities.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb, PhD: Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick, where he teaches on social theory and sport. He is co-author of the forthcoming book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game and author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport. He is co-host of The End of Sport podcast.

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In this episode, Nathan is joined by trans participation in sport scholar and authority Anna Posbergh to discuss the abusive treatment of an athlete on the San Jose State women's volleyball team, what it says about the current state of inclusion with respect to trans participation in sport, and also how it figures into broader trends of political transphobia. We also delve into some of the actual science and why it has no relation to the claims of the anti-trans brigade.

Anna Posbergh is Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Florida State University. Anna's work can be found in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sport & Communication, the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Sociology of Sport Journal, and many more!

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In one of our most important episodes to date, we present a keynote panel called "Can there be sport at a time of Genocide? Solidarity, Community, and Palestinian liberation" held at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) on November 1st, 2024. The panel was organized by Chen Chen and co-moderated by Derek and Nathan. 

Panelists included Dr. Sophia Azeb (UC Santa Cruz), Charlotte Phillips (Palestinian National Women's Football Team), Omar Dreidi (NBA Agent and Athletes for Ceasefire), Dr. Kat Pijetlovic (Catholics School of Law and Palestinian Football Association), Rebecca O'Keeffe (Irish Sport for Palestine) and Dave Zirin (The Nation and Edge of Sports). 

Illuminating the role that athletics can and do play in times of what many observers have characterized as genocide, it is important for those interested in sport to reflect on the ways in which sport and sporting cultures work to legitimize, normalize, and in some ways operate in complicity with the ongoing systematic destruction of an entire people, social infrastructure, and cultural apparatus. What is the role of academic communities in building international and intersectional solidarities as a pathway to dismantling Empire? Where do scholars of sport, sport studies and athletes fit in the critique and challenge to settler colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine? How and to what end can solidarities be built amongst scholars and athletes? In this panel, we address these important questions and attempt to answer perhaps the most pressing of them all for our organization: what does sport (and the study of sport) mean during genocide?

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