Lance Armstrong And The Myth Of The Natural Body
Lance Armstrong's rise and fall in the cycling world paved the way for a mythology about the "natural body" to proliferate in sports. Today, it's being used to argue for bans of trans athletes. Reo Eveleth of Tested joins us to talk about the unintended consequences of the natural body myth.
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Is It Even Possible to Cheat on The Bachelor?
What does cheating look like on a reality show where the goal is to find love? In this episode, Emma Gray and Claire Fallon from Love to See It join us to talk through the fiction of "for the right reasons" on The Bachelor franchise.
Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GS4u1CpT…
Why WNBA Owners Cheated To Help Their Players
The Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty have both had scandals around their owners paying or otherwise providing benefits to players under the table in an attempt to circumvent salary cap rules, right as women’s sports exploded in popularity. Maitreyi Anantharaman joins us to look at the state …
Baseball’s Steroid Era Was Actually A Labor Story
The simple story of the early-aughts baseball steroids scandal is that Congress caught a bunch of star players juicing. That’s mostly true, but that reading fails to properly place the scandal in the most relevant context: labor relations. You don’t get the steroid “crisis” without the 1994 strike,…
How Michigan’s Man on the Inside Got Caught
The Connor Stalions story is the perfect cheating scandal through which to understand college football, the most cheating-ass corrupt sport we have. Stalions is an insane character and the stuff he did was as blatant and obvious as it gets. The question of whether or not he cheated is unambiguous, …
The Varsity Blues Scandal Was Actually Class Warfare
The Operation Varsity Blues scandal made more visible the extent to which higher education has become a pay-to-play game. In this episode, we speak with Kirsten Hextrum, an associate professor at Oregon State University and the author of Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors Whit…
Look at What They Done Been Through with Patrick Redford
It’s time to get serious about the NBA playoffs, so Drew and Roth welcome fellow Defector and host of Nothing But Respect and Only If You Get Caught Patrick Reford to the show! They start in the West with the Spurs and Timberwolves, then head to the East where the Knicks swept the Sixers. Are the K…
The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
Patrick Redford interviews Jacob Silverman about the rise and fall of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried.
Episode transcript HERE
🏷️: Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, FTX, FTX collapse, FTX scandal, FTX fraud, cryptocurrency, crypto scandal, crypto fraud, Sam Bankman-Fried documentary, Sam Bankman-Fried story, cr…
The man who scammed the publishing world for love not money
Patrick Redford interviews Reeves Wiedeman about the bizarre case of Filippo Bernardini, the "Spine Collector" who stole thousands of unpublished books without ever leaking or selling them. With reporting from.
Episode transcript HERE
🏷️: book theft, publishing industry, Filippo Bernardini, The …
BONUS: Timelessly Torching James Dolan—Featuring Defector's Patrick Redford and Harry Krinsky
Join us for a special bonus episode of the Hell Gate Podcast, where we crossover (get it? basketball??) with our friends at Defector's Nothing But Respect to discuss the ongoing WNBA playoffs and the imminent NBA season. Topics discussed include: how Eric Adams needs to go on Curious Mike, James Do…
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