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Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which th...
Welcome to Would I Workout There (WIWT) – a column where I, a professed fitness freak – take a look at the virtual gyms in video games and answer that pressing question: would I, in fact, break a s...
Content warning for drug use, violence, weight, mental illness, and a brief mention of violence against trans and GNC people.
Sports are an absolute mess right now. The National Football League is preparing for the start of the 2020-2021 season by bungling their COVID-19 preparedness so badly that even players who traditiona...
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways i...
Broadcaster, MMA commentator, actress, and fitness professional Phoenix Carnevale joins Fernanda to talk about her history in martial arts, the challenge of getting a short interview right, being a wo...
In episode 30 of the show, MMA pioneer Julie Kedzie joins Fernanda to talk about her retirement from the octagon, her current life commentating for Invicta MMA, her experiences in grad school, who bel...
On Episode 20, UFC Commentator John Gooden joins Fernanda to discuss Petr Yan’s disqualification at UFC 259, the expensive life of an Iron Man, and more. [Note: A small portion of the interview had to...
In episode thirteen of the show, UFC anchor Karyn Bryant joins Fernanda to talk about life behind the desk and in front of the camera. You can listen here or check out the embed below!
Why do we need to know an athlete’s COVID-19 vaccination status? That question is behind renewed animus towards sports reporters from the inescapable Twitter peanut gallery, who view merely asking an...
After capturing and losing the strawweight title, Jessica Andrade will get another shot at UFC gold when she faces off against flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 261 this Saturday.
Here’s the thing about professional fighters: They are not like regular people, in the sense that their brains and bodies are conditioned to do things that regular people can’t. But they are like regu...
Cobra Kai is back, and if you are fun and cool, you should watch it because everyone who is fun and cool will like it. I mean, there’s intrigue, there’s romance, there’s hardcore karate-ing b...
Content warning for prison imagery in the piece.