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KARIM ZIDAN, Sports Investigative Journalist PART 1
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KARIM ZIDAN is an investigative journalist working at the intersection of sports and politics. His newsletter at Substack is called Sports Politika. We talk here about sports washing and so much more, including how sports fits into the wide world of business and politics. He talks about Saudi Arabia, LIV golf, FIFA and IOC (“they are big mafias”) and the state of American sports journalism.
INTERVIEW NOTES:
Karim Zidan Part 1
00:00 previewing the conversation
2:45 introduction, sports and politics, and Karim’s history
9:00 what is the genesis of the investigative journalism [Kadyrov]
10:45 doing television commentary gets him to Russia
15:40 more on Kadyrov and MMA
27:00 UFC Dana White, with a brief reference to Endeavor
28:30 Wagner Group and MMA fighters
32:20 US extreme militia members, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and recruiting through sports [a lot taking shape since 2017]
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