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Sports As A Weapon Podcast24 | The Cold War, the Olympics, and the Hungarian Revolution, with the End of Sport Podcast's Dr. Johanna MellisThis week, Miguel spoke to Dr. Johanna Mellis, Professor of World History at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania and one of the End of Sport Podcast co-hosts (@EndofSportPod). Dr. Mellis's research focuses on the interactions between Hungarian athletes, socialist sport leaders, and the International Olympic Committee as a microcosm of relations between society, the socialist state, and international organizations during the Cold War. Her work focuses specifically on the influence of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which saw a mass defection of hundreds of Hungarian athletes to the West on Hungarian socialist sport policy and the IOC (Urisnus.edu). Dr. Mellis was...2021-07-231h 24Sports As A Weapon Podcast13| #NotNCAAProperty & the Exploitation of College Athletic Workers w/ The End of Sport Pod's Dr. Derek SilvaI am joined this week on the podcast by Dr. Derek Silva, Sociologist from Kings University College in Canada. Derek is also the co-host of the @EndofSportPod with Dr. Johanna Mellis and Nathan Kalman-Lamb. Please check out their podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify! Derek broke down the exploitation of NCAA College Athletic Workers and their March 2021 article in The Guardian, ‘I signed my life to rich white guys': athletes on the racial dynamics of college sports.” We also discuss the March 31st Supreme Court arguments for NCAA v. Alston and NIL (Name, image, likeness), and what migh...2021-04-1454 minSports As A Weapon PodcastEp. 10: Part 2 Interview w/ WFAA ABC 8 Dallas Mavs Reporter Irvin CastellanosThis is our Part 2 interview with WFAA ABC 8 Mavericks reporter Irvin Castellanos (@TwittIrv). This episode is a little late but we talk about Mark Cuban not playing the national anthem and then playing it once the NBA found out about it. We also talked some baseball since he grew up a Texas Rangers fan and I grew up an LA Dodgers fan; which leads to a discussion on the MLB Word Series bubble that was held in Texas because of COVID-19. Also, since Irvin co-hosts his own Simpsons podcast (Eat My Shorts: A Simpsons Podcast), he tells...2021-03-2258 min