Redspin Sports

Redspin Sports

Redspin Sports looks at the connections between the U.S. sports industry & the political, social & economic forces that sustain U.S. imperialism, both at home and abroad. We examine the history of activist athletes and this generation's reemergence of athlete activism, the history of American football through a critical class struggle lens, and the politics & labor dynamics that characterize the modern pro sports leagues. Highlighting the connections between billionaire team owners, the permanent war state, real estate gentrifiers and slum lords, private prisons, education privatization, police militarization & much more; all of which are critical to fully understanding the social and political forces that define our time. Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook with feedback, reactions, or even topic suggestions for future shows. Twitter & Instagram: @RedspinSports Nathaniel Wallace: @NateWallace9 (Twitter) Michael Sampson: @BrotherFlourish (Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/RedspinSports/

Episodes

New Normies Podcast Ep. 1 w/ Nate Wallace & Corey Uhl on the Redspin Sports Network

February 27, 2022 • 95 mins
New Normies Podcast delves into the new social norms, pop-culture, politics, and humor of this new normal world we're living in.

We discuss Kyrie Irving's effect on NYC Mayor Eric Adams changing his tune regarding mandates, trucker convoys and the left's reaction, Turkish NBA player/CIA moonlighter, Enes Kanter "Freedom" being a psy op, Russia/Ukraine (pre-invasion) and more.

@Nate6Wallace (Twitter)

@Corey_Uhl (Twitter)

@Redspin Sp...
Mark as Played

Dead Money in College Sports, Baseball's Race to the Bottom, and the Sports Media Ignores Lamar Jackson's Performance

November 13, 2021 • 18 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Justin Williams, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss money paid to fired coaches in college sports, MLB team owners’ drive for profit diminishing the quality of competition as they move to reinforce their power amid the league’s looming labor battle, and the gap between Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s performance and the media narratives surrou...
Mark as Played

2015's Across the Line, Aaron Rodgers, and Baseball's Looming Labor Struggle

November 13, 2021 • 16 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Justin Williams, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the 2015 film “Across The Line” and the individualist, bootstrap ideology that the film advances, the privilege that the film fails to examine and how it connects to the real-world issue of Aaron Rodgers’ misleading statements about his vaccination status, and the looming labor battle and potential strike...
Mark as Played

Redspin Rewind "Blue Chips" Film Review & Chicago Blackhawks Sexual Abuse Coverup Scandal

November 1, 2021 • 20 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the 1994 film “Blue Chips,” its whitewashing of college sports and the neoliberal themes in the film, its flipping the script on the power dynamic between athletes, their families, and the college athletic system, and the Chicago Blackhawks’ cover-up of the sexual assault of player Kyle Beach by the team’s v...
Mark as Played

MLB Players Show Solidarity with Minor League Players & NBA Health Insurance Fraud

October 29, 2021 • 16 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the indictment of 18 former NBA players in a health insurance fraud scheme, the broader systemic scam that is private health insurance, the damage that players’ bodies experience as a result of playing professional basketball, and the Fair Play movement that opposes the exploitation of Minor League Baseball ...
Mark as Played

Redspin Report with Justin Williams: Misogyny and Racism in America's Pastimes

October 16, 2021 • 23 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Justin Williams, co-host of Redspin Sports to discuss the resignation of Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden and the fallout of the investigation into the Washington Football Team, what remains to be revealed in the thousands of emails that have not been released, the vindication of Colin Kaepernick’s criticism of the NFL’s culture around race, the over-the-to...
Mark as Played

Max Blumenthal & Garrett Ramirez of NYC Teachers for Choice on Mass Layoffs, Kyrie, Socialism & more

October 16, 2021 • 112 mins
Max Blumenthal and Garrett Ramirez of NYC Teachers for Choice join Redspin Sports host & Jersey City public school teacher, Nate Wallace, to discuss the effects of mass layoffs of workers in NYC and beyond, and the increasingly hysterical discourse in response to news that Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving will not be allowed to play this NBA season.

Regardless of your thoughts on mandates, it's important to honestly assess what...
Mark as Played

Unionizing Minor League Baseball and MLB Postseason with Tipping Pitches and Redspin

October 12, 2021 • 83 mins
Justin 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.
Mark as Played

Sexual Abuse in USA Gymnastics & World Cup Qatar 2022 DeathFest Edition

October 9, 2021 • 20 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the failure of the FBI in investigating the abuse of Larry Nassar and the inaction of the US judicial system in prosecuting the agents responsible for these failures, sexual abuse of players at Ohio State University and the use of the threat of sexual abuse as a motivator for training by coaches, the endemic...
Mark as Played

The NFL Continues to Whitewash its Exploitation of Black Players

September 17, 2021 • 19 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss Clinton Portis’ guilty plea for healthcare fraud and the broader context of race norming and the exploitative culture in the NFL, the NFL’s whitewashing of its record on race as it pays lip service to racial justice, and the economic exploitation of Black athletes in the NCAA despite recent changes.

Recorded ...
Mark as Played

How US Involvement in Afghanistan Put Afghan Athletes in Danger & AI's "We Talkin' Bout Practice"

August 31, 2021 • 17 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the effects of US involvement in Afghanistan on athletes in the country, the context around Allen Iverson’s infamous “practice” interview, and the attitudes of fans and local sports media toward white and Black quarterbacks in Boston.

Recorded and aired on Friday, August 27th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

If you en...
Mark as Played

Minor League Baseball Players Exploited By MLB and Investors

August 26, 2021 • 14 mins
In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, It’s FRIDAY so it’s time for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report,” where we discuss sports, politics and struggle with Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the severe exploitation of the athletic labor of Minor League Baseball players by Major League Baseball, the sickening new lottery system that can further exploit the destitution of Minor League...
Mark as Played

Climate Change and Sports; Big Money College Football TV Contracts

August 20, 2021 • 17 mins
Nate Wallace joins Bob Schlehuber of "Political Misfits" on Radio Sputnik for their weekly "Foul Play" segment.

Recorded and aired on Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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 costs are the biggest barriers in the way of being able to churn out more content on a consistent...
Mark as Played

Rookie QB Media Discourse, NIL 2 Months In, and a Pay Day Loan Scheme for Minor League Players

August 20, 2021 • 68 mins
Nate, Mike, and Justin discuss the media discourse around the rookie QB's, the state of NIL at the 2 month mark, and a pay day loan scheme aimed at minor league baseball players.
Mark as Played

New Netflix Documentary Reveals The True Story of The Malice At The Palace (Redspin Report: Aug. 13, 2021)

August 13, 2021 • 14 mins
In this segment, of By Any Means Necessary It’s Friday so it’s time for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report,” where we discuss sports, politics and struggle with Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast to discuss the Malice in the Palace documentary released on Netflix, the selective editing and misleading coverage from sports news coverage casting the players, rather than fans, as instigators, a...
Mark as Played

Andrew Maraniss on his book, Singled Out: The true story of Glenn Burke

July 21, 2021 • 53 mins
In this episode, Justin interviews Andrew Maraniss; author of “Singled Out: The true story of Glenn Burke”. You can find this and Andrew's other amazing books at https://www.parnassusbooks.net/
Mark as Played

Redspin Sports July 8th Weekly Round-Up

July 21, 2021 • 131 mins
We talking NIL madness, the on-going Olympic nightmare [from banning athletes to Japan locking-down], Dodgers distancing further from Trevor Bauer, England madness, and a thorough bashing of Mitch McConnell's NCAA athlete take.

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 costs are the biggest barriers in the way of being...
Mark as Played

Redspin Sports July 20th Special Livestream

July 21, 2021 • 103 mins
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 costs are the biggest barriers in the way of being able to churn out more content on a consistent basis.
Mark as Played

Billionaire Sports Owners Dodge Taxes While Workers Pay The Price

July 20, 2021 • 19 mins
In 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 bi...
Mark as Played

Redspin Sports Weekly Round-up

July 1, 2021 • 109 mins
This 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 S...
Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

    My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

    My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.

    24/7 News: The Latest

    24/7 News: The Latest

    The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.

    Dateline NBC

    Dateline NBC

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

    Stuff You Should Know

    Stuff You Should Know

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

    The Bobby Bones Show

    The Bobby Bones Show

    Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

Explore

iHeart

Live Radio

Podcasts

Artist Radio

Exclusives

News

Features

Events

Contests

Photos

Information

About

Advertise

Blog

Brand Guidelines

Contest Guidelines

Subscription Offers

Jobs

Get the App

Automotive

Home

Mobile

Wearables

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.