Sports Literati Podcast
1) The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
The Sports Literati convene to discuss Premiership soccer through Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg's book about the history of the economics of the Premiership. They take a look at the business of p...Show More
2) The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
This week, in a special collaboration with Medhum.org, The Sports Literati sit down and discuss The Tennis Partner, a masterpiece of medical humanities that just happened to be a sports book!
3) Arnold-The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzneggar and Douglas Hall Kent
This month, the Sports Literati convene to discuss Arnold Schwarzneggar's classic sports memoir about his early days as a bodybuilder and his quest to go from Mr. Universe to Hollywood.
4) NFL Confidential by Johnny Anonymous
This month, the Sports Literati sit down to ponder and ruminate over one of the most high brow, intellectual books they have ever read. Okay, maybe not. But it just might be one of the most fun books ...Show More
5) Range by David Epstein
This month on the Sports Literati, we get out of our comfort zone and test our range by reading David Epstein's ideas about the power of diverse groups and why early specialization might not be great ...Show More
6) How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
The Sports Literati reconvene to talk about the beautiful game, through the lens of Franklin Foer's classic soccer book How Soccer Explains the World, first published in 2004.
7) The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith
The Sports Literati revisits one of the seminal sports books of the 1990s: The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith. A close examination of the 1990-91 Chicago Bulls, we talk about an up and coming Michael Jorda...Show More
8) The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Sports Literati convene to discuss how the United States 8 man crew rose from the depths of the Great Depression to take down the big, bad Nazis at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
9) Breathe by Rickson Gracie
The Sports Literati enter the world of mixed martial arts for the first time, as they dissect the memoir of Rickson Gracie, the undefeated legend of Brazilian Jujitsu.
10) Across the River by Kent Babb
The Sports Literati take a look at Kent Babb's fly-on-the wall account of the 2019 Edna Carr high school football team as it sought a fourth consecutive Louisiana state championship. The book examines...Show More