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Sports As A Weapon Podcast34 | Southpaw and Mix Marxist ArtsMiguel talked to Sam of the Southpaw Podcast (@SouthpawPod) to discuss Combat sports and Marxism! Listen to the Southpaw Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts and visit their website for more information.At the start of the episode, Miguel asked Sam about starting a podcast, and Miguel had Sam give us a Marxist analysis of MMA and combat sports. Miguel and Sam also discuss how the Southpaw Podcast grew into a podcast network, including podcasts not specifically about MMA or combat sports, such as Southpaws’ Deep Space Nine podcast. Additionally, Miguel and Sam discuss the connection be...2022-06-141h 21Sports As A Weapon Podcast33 | Russophobia in Sports with Beyond the Red Zone co-host Mike McGuinnessMiguel welcomed Mike McGuinness (@beardedcynic473), co-host of the Beyond the Red Zone Podcast (Recorded on March 7, 2022, but it is still relevant). Miguel and Mike get into the increasing Russophobia that has infected sports because of the Russian-Ukraine war. First, we discuss CCM Hockey ending their partnership with Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin. Miguel also discusses New York Ranger star Artemi Panarin's support for anti-Muslim Alexey Navalny. We also get into how the Great One Wayne Gretzky calls for banning the Russian Junior Hockey Team at the August 2022 Junior Hockey World Championships held in Edmonton. Additionally, M...2022-05-311h 17
Redspin SportsUnionizing Minor League Baseball and MLB Postseason with Tipping Pitches and RedspinJustin joins friend of the show, Miguel Garcia, on his Sports as a Weapon Podcast podcast to talk unionizing the MiLB and MLB Postseason, along with the duo behind the Tipping Pitches podcast.2021-10-121h 23Sports As A Weapon Podcast28 | Unionizing Minor League Baseball and MLB Postseason with Tipping PitchesIt's October, which means postseason baseball! This week, Miguel had three guests on the podcast to talk playoff baseball and the topic of unionizing minor league baseball players. Miguel was excited to welcome Alex Bazeley and Bobby Wagner, who hosts one of our favorite podcasts, the Tipping Pitches Podcast (@tipping_pitches). Miguel was also joined on the podcast by comrade Justin Williams of the Redspin Sports Podcast. First, Miguel asked Bobby and Alex about their podcast and what inspired them to start it. Miguel also asked Bobby and Alex about their "unionize the minor leagues" t-shirts and...2021-10-081h 23
Redspin SportsBillionaire Sports Owners Dodge Taxes While Workers Pay The PriceIn this segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Mike Sampson, co-host of the RedSpin Sports podcast and Miguel Garcia, host and creator of the Sports As A Weapon Podcast to discuss the US challenging Nigerian-born basketball players Nneka Ogwumike, Chiney Ogwumike and Elizabeth William requests to play for Nigeria in the Tokyo Olympics, the ways that sports team owners use their franchises to skirt paying taxes even as they make billions off of the working class and poor fans that support their franchises, and how Black soccer players are subjected to racism in European leagues whether they win or...2021-07-2019 minRedspin SportsRedspin Sports Weekly Round-upThis week Justin and friend of the show, Miguel Garcia, from the Sports as a Weapon podcast @SportsAsAWeapon are going to kick things off with the Trevor Bauer story and Justin is going to offer a counter-narrative surrounding the "most hated man in baseball", Angel Hernandez. Mike will be on at halftime after fighting the good fight and we'll dive right into the on-going NIL story, put SI on blast, and more! If you enjoy Redspin Sports, please consider supporting our work on Patreon so we can produce more of it. The editing, equipment, podcast hosting, and other...2021-07-021h 49
Redspin SportsRedspin Report w/ SAAW's Miguel Garcia on LA Dodgers & Chavez Ravine, Texas & the Sports Revolution, & Tim TebowIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Jacquie Luqman and producer Wyatt Reed are joined by Miguel Garcia, friend of the show and frequent guest, a Xicano SoCal native, Applied Cultural Anthropologist (M.A.) and Politics & Sports enthusiast. Miguel is the creator and host of "Sports as a Weapon Podcast" for our weekly segment the Red Spin Report discussing sports, politics and struggle. They discuss the acquisition of quarterback Tim Tebow by the Jacksonville Jaguars over Colin Kaepernick, as well as some of the fascinating new interviews coming out of his podcast. Checkout the links below to see...2021-05-1610 min