Code Switch

Why can’t people be normal about the WNBA? | Code Switch

The WNBA's rise has been fueled as much by a love for hoops as for the politics of it all. The league is obviously predominated by women who are black or queer or both and who are also really politically outspoken and all of that helped draw in lots of new liberal fans. But it also helped make the W a target of conservatives and the volume of that tension has really ratcheted up this year.

Throughline

How baseball got its beat

One of the joys of baseball to me is the silence between half innings with walkup music and non-stop audio. The need to secure attention, the attention of the fans is relentless. And uh the idea of a kid going to a ball game and being entitled to dream that may be lost.

Mixed Signals

Vic Jacobi on Building Trust In NBA Circles & The Business Of Knowing Everybody | Mixed Signals

Basketball is just universal. It's been a universal language for so long, you know, and it all started and a lot of people know this about me, you know, I'm big Kobe fan and I just wanted to meet Kobe, right? And I'm here.

Code Switch

Why the World Cup is race and class all the way down

Race and class and identity like always seem to be right there on the surface at the World Cup every 4 years. Like, maybe more so than any other sporting event.

The New York Times

How the World Cup’s Most Famous Voice Gets Ready for “GOOOAL!”

It was a very emotional and very authentic broadcast because it was just myself on air, and very happy for my home country. It was something that I had been waiting for as much as all the Argentinian soccer fans for 36 years.

Compound Interest

Wonder’s Marc Lore On Vibe-Coding Restaurants, Drone Delivery, & Becoming "The IPO Guy"

I've learned this lesson that anything fun, you know, in life, you usually lose money on until until sports.

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Formula 1 (Audio)

Formula One is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-plus person teams spend hundreds of millions designing cars from scratch, and — as one listener put it — the Real Housewives of the Garage, a soap opera of billionaire egos, team politics, and paddock drama.

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Formula 1 episode is live!

Formula 1 is the world's premier motorsports series. And shockingly to me as an American, it is actually the world's most popular annual sporting series with 827 million viewers.