Newest Episodes
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Choosing a Sports Team Without Falling for the Consumer Trap
Choosing a sports team gets packaged like a grand romantic awakening, with one perfect logo and jersey waiting for you. How to choose a team without falling for the consumer trap.
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Michael Jordan Varsity Cut Myth: What Really Happened
The Michael Jordan varsity cut myth has been repeated so often that many treat it as settled history. A skinny sophomore, a list and a missing name. What really happened.
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The Sports Banter Blueprint: An Air Test for Identifying Sports Haters
Not everybody who talks crazy about your team is doing real banter. Some are joking, some are playing a game. A blueprint and an air test for spotting genuine sports haters.
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How to Ignore Sports: A Four Tier Blueprint to Purge the Games
Sports dominate conversation, television, social feeds and streaming. If you want to ignore them, you are up against a machine. A four tier blueprint for stepping away.
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Reforming Sports Haters: Sports Hater 101 & the Method to Change Minds
If you want back into sports banter, camaraderie and fun, you have to stop treating hate like a personality. Sports Hater 101 and a method for changing minds.
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Exposing the Sports Ecosystem: How to Walk Away
Sports talk takes over break rooms, family gatherings, group chats, bars and headlines. It is always on and always loud. How to understand the ecosystem and walk away.
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The 162-Game Trap: Is MLB Truly Dying?
Major League Baseball does not have a boredom problem, it has a self-inflicted structural problem. Why the 162 game season is a trap and whether MLB is truly dying.
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The Chameleon Scripts: Why We Fake Sports Interest
Sports culture acts like everybody must be all in on the teams, scores and hot takes. Why that social pressure makes people fake their interest, and what to do instead.
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Exposing Sports Talk Shows: How to Fake an Argument
Sports debate is supposed to sharpen ideas and give fans a chance to go back and forth. How a lot of sports talk shows learned to fake an argument, and why it works.