In Defense of Steven Gerrard
People love a scapegoat. In the wake of Liverpool's failed title chase in 2013-14, many fans and pundits pointed to their captain's infamous gaffe in ...
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It's time to elevate the quality of the water cooler discussion. Let's be smarter about sports. Student of the Game looks at the biggest topics in sports according to the smartest people currently studying them. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/student-of-the-game2/support
It Shouldn't Have Counted: The Bush Push
Sometimes thing happen in sports that look highly questionable, and sometimes those things happen at the most pivotal moment possible. In Fall 2005, M...
Team Building Exercise: The 2011 Phillies' Four Aces
From 2008 to 2011, the Phillies enjoyed one of the most fruitful periods in their franchise's history, and their pitching staff was largely responsibl...
The Curious Case of Aymeric Laporte
Athletic Bilbao has maintained a Basque-only policy for recruitment for decades. That stance, however, got pushed to its limits when the club wanted t...
S1E2 - "You Only Sing When You're Winning"
This episode will make you want to twist and shout for sure. In an SotG first, we venture across the pond to talk to Dr. Simon Warner about music, soc...
S1E1 - Into the Rivalryverse
Hate is a strong word, but we still use it for sports teams! In this inaugural episode, SotG interviews Dr. Joe Cobbs, a sports marketing professor at...
Introducing Season One
You have a team that you love dearly....which also means you probably have a team that you hate. Season one of SotG looks into the history and mechani...