Season 1 Episode 3
On this episode of All Things 99精品视频, we talk with speakers from this year鈥檚聽Rosenfield Symposium.聽The Off the Field Symposium explored the inextricable relationship of sports and politics, economics, and society.聽First we talk with聽, the Sports of the Times columnist for the New York Times, about her experience covering stories that transcend the field of sports, such as workplace harassment, sex abuse, brain trauma, doping and international corruption. Macur has recently written stories on sexual abuse in USA gymnastics. Some of the other pieces mentioned in the episode include a , as well as an , a former college football player who suffered from mental illness and probable聽Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
Then, we talk with聽, associate professor of history at Grand Valley State University, about athlete activism 鈥撀爌ast, present and future. He specializes in sports, gender, and African-American history, often overlapping those interests. In the past year he published two books, , about the civil rights movement and the black athlete's quest for equality, and , about boxing and the battle for black manhood. We聽focus聽on the NFL protests started by Colin Kaepernick and look to history for an understanding of the public reaction to athlete activism.聽聽