A new bill might make it legal for Minor League Baseball players in Florida to be paid less than minimum wage.
Colin Kaepernick taking a knee influenced a generation of activist athletes: author
Read MoreThe Rays lead the American League but still can't fill the Trop
Read More"Trial and Error" on Morning Energy
Read MoreDeSantis signs trans girls sports ban on first day of LGBTQ Pride month, protests and legal challenges swiftly follow
Read MoreLegislature revives, passes trans girl sports ban prompting fierce backlash
Read MorePlayers call for Stanley Cup Playoffs to be halted in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests
Read MoreRays expect taxpayers to fund much of team's proposed Ybor stadium
Read More
ESPN's Jemele Hill's message to some news consumers: 'Your emotions are not facts'
Read MoreTampa business leaders make the case for an Ybor City ballpark
Read MoreRays president tries to sell St. Pete crowd on Ybor stadium
Read MoreEd O'Bannon tells WMNF how he sued the NCAA and won
Read MoreDocumentary explores a literally cool part of black sporting history
Read More
Manatee County students fight back against ban on taking a knee
Schools in Manatee County got an email recently from the district Supervisor of Athletics telling athletic directors that it would break district rules if student athletes don’t stand during the national anthem. The memo says students can get an exemption. But some social justice activists are fighting back with a demonstration this afternoon they’re calling,… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, Sept. 28 – health care reporter Jay Kaiser & Steve Almond,author of “Against Football”
Everyone wants to cut drug prices, so why isn’t that happening on Capitol Hill? Kaiser Health News reporter Jay Kaiser came on MidPoint for the first portion of the show and discussed why there are multiple bills in Congress to reduce the price of prescription drugs, yet nothing is happening. We then move on to… Read more »
Golf course residents protest Tampa Sports Authority over pesticide
A half dozen residents of Forest Hills demonstrated outside Raymond James Stadium Thursday against plans to fumigate a golf course near their homes; next Tuesday the Tampa Sports Authority plans to apply the pesticide Curfew to the Babe Zaharias Golf Course to kill worms called nematodes. But Jillian Harber, who lives on the golf course… Read more »
Rick Baker pushes for ‘yes’ vote on Rowdies stadium
St. Petersburg voters will decide next Tuesday whether the city should lease a historic waterfront sports stadium to the Tampa Bay Rowdies soccer team for 25 years. The Rowdies want to expand the stadium with the hopes of landing one of four Major League Soccer expansion teams. Former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker works for… Read more »
- Business Ethics
- Economy
- Ethics
- Jobs
- Local Government
- News and Public Affairs
- Sports
- State Government
- Taxes
Journalist Noah Pransky on Radioactivity Wednesday
Questionable analysis used in deciding sports subsidies The state of Florida and local governments spend a lot of money subsidizing stadiums for sports teams. Host Rob Lorei talked with Noah Pransky, who is an investigative reporter at WTSP whose most recent story is about Mark Bonn, the expert that many governments around the state use… Read more »
Documentary explores a literally cool part of black sporting history
A new Canadian documentary looks at the history of black athletes in ice hockey. The film, Soul on Ice: Past, Present and Future, by Kwame Mason, made its Tampa premiere last night in Ybor City at the Gasparilla International Film Festival. A full capacity theater of nearly 200, heard Kwame Mason explain the difficult 3… Read more »
Thursday MidPoint – sports editor Dave Zirin talks about Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for national anthem
On today’s program, Dave Zirin, the sports editor of The Nation and the host of the popular Edge of Sports podcast, was our guest for the first part of the program. He discussed San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s controversial decision not to stand for the national anthem, and the fall out from that.
Women’s Show – Brazil: Economy and Olympics – and NOT Campaign Mania
How many times since the opening ceremony in Rio have your heard “The Girl from Ipanema?” Do you know more about archery than you ever wanted to know? It’s hard not to get caught up in Olympic madness… We all know they are happening in Rio de Janeiro, but what do you know about what… Read more »
New book says NCAA exploits student athletes
College sports pull in more money than the NFL, about $13 billion a year. But most of the students athletes never see the money that is made from their skills and likeness. Often their personal and academic lives are tightly controlled by coaches and sports departments only to be largely abandoned by the end of their college… Read more »
