Episode Description
Air Date: 3–31-2026
Today we examine how money and power have captured American sports from every angle — gambling platforms operating as unregulated casinos, private equity turning franchises into financial assets, leagues suppressing player pay while selling access to politicians, and a sports media apparatus too compromised to report any of it. It's almost all the problems with America on display in one industry.
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(00:46:46) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Sports Expose Everything Wrong With America — And Fans Have More Power Than They Think
DEEPER DIVES
(00:58:11) SECTION A: SPORTS ARE POLITICS & CULTURE
(01:58:11) SECTION B: GAMBLING ON EVERYTHING IS BAD IDEA
(02:30:27) SECTION C: THE WOKE NBA, NOT THAT WOKE
(03:08:12) SECTION D: THE BILLIONAIRES ARE ALWAYS THE PROBLEM
SHOW IMAGE CREDITS
Description: Composite image of the silhouette of a business man in a suit holding up an upside-down golden umbrella full of sports balls in a celebratory way as money rains down behind him.
Credit: Internal design. Component images from Pixabay
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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