About this episode

The episode explores the excitement of sports during World Cup summer while highlighting the potential dark side of competition.

It’s a World Cup summer and with the USA hosting the soccer games along with Canada and Mexico, it seems like everyone’s gone sports mad. With Wimbledon tennis in the UK and the Knicks kicking butt in the NBA, we’ve decided to pay homage to the beautiful games and warn you that there can be a dark side to absolutely anything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• sports
• World Cup
• dark side of competition
• soccer
• tennis
• NBA
• sports culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NBA

Places: USA, Canada, Mexico, UK

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