SportsBeat- January 21, 2026 by WOUB News

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Ohio University School of Dance assistant professor Sarah Ramey joins Conversations From Studio B to discuss her intergenerational dance work, including the Perennial Movement Group, a dance company she founded in 2015 for adults over age 50. Ramey also talks about bringing together Athens community members and Ohio University dance students to create a new original choreography piece titled "This Won’t Last Forever."

The Perennial Movement Group’s performance troupe, The Perennials, will perform in Athens at the Shirley Wimmer Dance Theater in Putnam Hall (96 East Union Street) on January 23 and 24, where "This Won’t Last Forever" will make its debut. The piece will be performed again on February 13 and 14 as part of the Ohio University Winter Dance Concert at Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium (47 East Union Street).

SportsBeat is back for the new year! Host Jake Collins, Jack Zwiezinski, Connor Mallon, Simon Lupfer, and Kasey Hill break down everything from the hiring of the new Ohio Football head coach, John Hauser, to Women's basketball's recent success. After the table gives their score predictions for the National Championship game, Miami vs. Indiana. For professional sports, Jack gives a Cavs update, and the group recaps the first round of the NFL playoffs.

Hosts Bonnie Proudfoot and Wendy McVicker read and discuss poetry.

Kreig and Jillian Prior share their journey to building a family through international adoption after years of hosting exchange students, a path shaped by patience, faith, and perseverance. In this episode of The Anna Jinja Show, they reflect on navigating adoption later in life, embracing cross-cultural family bonds, and finding profound meaning in a family defined by love rather than biology.

In this episode of "The Anna Jinja Show," host Anna Jinja speaks with children's author Jade Amez about how her debut book Where Am I From? reframes questions of identity, belonging, and home through the lens of her adoption journey. The conversation also highlights a new collaborative song inspired by Amez’s story, created by music therapist Caitlin Kraus and musician Brad Swiniarski to explore the emotional complexity of family and self-definition.

This week on The OUtlet, U.S. soybean deals with China face uncertainty, and our graduating seniors say goodbye to Ohio University and WOUB.

On this episode of SportsBeat, the table dives into a crazy eventful week in the Ohio sports world. Host Jake Collins, Jack Zwiesinzki, Kasey Hill, and Luke Schmitt breakdown the mystery surrounding OU football after they end their regular season. Then they dabble into Men’s and Women’s basketball where they have struggled. Finally, of course, the group ends with upset watch and weekly awards.

The Anna Jinja Show confronts questions of identity, belonging, and historical erasure in this episode. Host Anna Jinja speaks with two guests whose work is rooted in preserving and honoring Black heritage in America.

David Butcher, Executive Director of the Tablertown People of Color Museum, traces his family’s journey from enslavement to freedom in Ohio and reflects on raising two adopted children across racial lines. His perspective illuminates the emotional, cultural, and systemic challenges that emerge when white parents raise Black children — and why community and cultural connection are crucial.

Artist and activist Paisha Thomas joins the conversation to discuss her music and her nonprofit organization, Land of the Freed, which spotlights the descendants of freed people who were violently stripped of 3,200 acres of inherited land in 1846. Her work underscores how Black contributions to American culture are too often appropriated while their origins are erased.

Together, the episode examines how adoption agencies perpetuate colonial thinking, the role of museums and art in safeguarding history, and practical ways families and educators can commit to antiracism. With deeply personal stories, this conversation speaks to anyone who believes that understanding our full history — the beautiful and the painful — is essential to building a more just future.