Category Archives: podcast

May 9, 2013 · 9:45 am

Podcast: Soccer in the US (The Sports Ethicist Show)

The podcast for episode 7 of The Sports Ethicist Show is available for download.

Whatever you call it: association football, soccer, or futbol, it is by most measures the most popular sport in the world. But, in the US, it is a distance 5th among the major team sports. Will it ever be more popular here? The Sports Ethicist sits down with Real Madrid fan, Professor William Gahan, to discuss soccer in Europe and in the US. They also discuss fandom, bull-fighting, and other issues in sports.

Original Air Date: May 6, 2013 on Rockford College Radio.

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May 1, 2013 · 11:23 am

Podcast: Boston Marathon Reactions (The Sports Ethicist Show)

The podcast for episode 6 of The Sports Ethicist Show is available for download.

In this episode, The Sports Ethicist calls up his best friend, who still lives in the Boston area, to talk about their reactions to and thoughts about the Boston Marathon bombing.

Original Air Date: April 29, 2013 on Rockford College Radio.

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April 22, 2013 · 9:10 pm

Podcast: Sports Studies Symposium (The Sports Ethicist Show)

The podcast for episode 5 of The Sports Ethicist Show is available for download.

In this episode, The Sports Ethicist sits down with Chad Carlson, John Harney, Trisha Phillips, Aaron Harper, Andrew Koehl, Carl Robinson, and Mike Perry to discuss the themes and ideas raised by the papers given at the symposium on April 19.

Original Air Date: April 22, 2013 on Rockford College Radio.

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April 17, 2013 · 11:02 am

Podcast Episode 4: Fitness and Sport (The Sports Ethicist Show)

The podcast for episode 4 of The Sports Ethicist Show is available for download.

In this episode, The Sports Ethicist talks with Assistant Professor of Biology Sean Beckmann about the relationship of fitness to sport and athletics. What is fitness? Are fitness and health the same thing? Are elite athletes fit and should the general public emulate elite training regiments? The conversation shifts into the issue of gene doping and doping in general.

Original Air Date: April 15, 2013 on Rockford College Radio.

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April 10, 2013 · 11:43 am

Podcast: Episode Three: The Spectacle of Sport

The podcast for Episode Three: The Spectacle of Sport is available for download:

ESPN was founded in 1979 and ushered in the era of 24/7 sports coverage. It is hard to argue that this hasn’t had a major effect on sports themselves, but also on the wider culture. Sports are bigger than ever, and in many ways, there has never been a better time to be a sports fan. But are there any downsides? In this episode, Professors Shawn Klein and Matt Flamm discuss the negative and positive consequences of the massive growth of attention on sports.

Original Air Date on Rockford College Radio: April 8, 2013

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April 2, 2013 · 9:33 am

Podcast: Episode Two: Why Sport? (The Sports Ethicist Show)

The podcast for Episode Two: Why Sport? is available for download:

In this episode, Professors Shawn Klein and Mike Perry follow up their discussion of what sport is with a discussion of “why sport?” They discuss the reasons why people play sports and why people watch sports. They end the show with a brief discussion of why they study sports.

In the podcast, we discuss a survey “What are your reasons for playing sports?” from Sportsreasons.com. Here is a link to the survey:

http://www.sportsreasons.com/uploads/4/7/8/7/4787106/project_-_players_survey.pdf

Original Air Date on Rockford College Radio: April 1, 2013

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March 27, 2013 · 11:13 am

Podcast: Episode One: What is Sport (The Sports Ethicist Show)

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In this episode, Professors Shawn Klein and Mike Perry try to answer the question of what sport is. Everyone agrees that football and baseball are sports, but what about figure skating, cheerleading, competitive eating, or the WWE? How essential is competition or physical abilities to our understanding of sports? Is it even important to know what the definition of sport is? Klein and Perry also discuss the difference between play, games, and sport.

Original Air Date on Rockford College Radio: March 25, 2013.

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