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Moyers & Company
The Collision of Sports and Politics
Season 2
Episode 36
Bill Moyers talks with sports editor Dave Zirin about the collision of sports and politics and the ways in which sports shape our understanding of things like racism, sexism, homophobia. It shapes our understanding of corporations and what’s happening to our cities. In so many different ways sports stories are stories of American life in the 21st century.
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