The SportsCrit Lab with Dr. G

Jalen Hurts, Black Labor and the Audacity of Doubt

Who gets the benefit of the doubt—and who has to prove their suffering? In this installment of “Are You Fu***n For Real?”, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams examines the comm

More Than a Contract: The WNBA CBA as a Public Health Intervention (Part 3)

In this episode, the third in the SportsCrit™ Lab Podcast's WNBA series, we explore how the WNBA collective bargaining agreement represents more than a labor negotiation—

We Watched. They Got Paid: Spectatorship Is Power & the Historic WNBA CBA (Part 2)

In this 2nd episode of the SportsCrit™ Lab Podcast's WNBA series, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams breaks down the newly approved WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement through

The Business of the Body: Athlete Labor in the Sports Economy

In this episode of The SportsCrit™ Lab Podcast, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams unpacks SportsCrit™ Tenet: Progress Is Made When Power Is Paid. Using the current WNBA Collec

The Business of the Body: Athlete Labor in the Sports Economy

In this episode of The SportsCrit™ Lab Podcast, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams unpacks SportsCrit™ Tenet: Progress Is Made When Power Is Paid. Using the current WNBA Coll

Archive the Joy! Super Bowl LX (SportsCrit Super Bowl Series: Episode 3)

This episode documents the intersectional milestones of Super Bowl LX that are often overshadowed by political debate or commercial spectacle. Rather than centering contr

Who Gets to Be American? Bad Bunny, Backlash, and Cultural Ownership (SportsCrit™ Super Bowl Series | Episode 2)

In Episode 2 of the SportsCrit™ Super Bowl Series, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams moves beyond the spectacle of halftime entertainment to examine the controversy surroundin

The Field Was Never Leveled (SportsCrit™ Super Bowl Series | Episode 1)

In this episode of The SportsCrit™ Lab, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams launches Phase One of SportsCrit™ by naming a foundational truth often hidden in plain sight: the fie

(Part III): When the Gatekeepers Play the Game: The System of Whiteness and the Performance of Power in Sports

In this episode of the The SportsCrit™ Lab Podcast, its part two of the breakdown of the Critical Race Theory Tenet"Whiteness as Property" and Sportscrit tenet "The Syste

(Part II) Black Labor, White Legacy: Who Really Owns the Game? Examining Whiteness as Property in sports

In this powerful new episode of the SportsCrit™ Lab Podcast, Dr. Gyasmine George-Williams unpacks the Critical Race Theory tenet of Whiteness as Property—a concept that r

Dr G Taught Me-Dr. G Earns the Faculty of the Year Award

This one is special. 💫I was honored with the Faculty of the Year Award for the Dept of Kinesiology Health Promotion— and the person who introduced me on stage was none ot

(Part I) Just what is #SportsCrit: Critical Race Theory in sports, and what’s It doing in such a nice field as sports education?

Shot out to Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, who inspired this episode's title!In this foundational episode of the SportsCrit™ Lab Podcast, Dr. G dives deep into what Critical

Welcome to the SportsCrit Lab!

In this debut episode, Dr. G pulls back the curtain on what The SportsCrit™ Lab is all about—where scholarship, sport, and social justice collide. Learn how SportsCrit™ w