This week, Dr. Deborah Stroman is joined by Edgar Walker, UNC class of 2017, who’s the SVP of MADE Hoops.
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This week, Dr. Deborah Stroman is joined by Darrick Johnson, founder of Sherpa Sports AI. They discuss the need for technological innovation in sports.
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On the Porch: Dr. James Wood - Sports Around the World
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James Wood is currently Professor of Latin American and modern world history at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the author of The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851 and the co-editor of "Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations", now in its fifth edition with Rowman and Littlefield. As a Fulbright scholar for Chile in 2016 he was a visiting professor at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago (where he observed Chilean student activism up close).
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This week, Dr. Deborah Stroman is joined by Hassan Pinto, UNC soccer alumnus and entrepreneur, to discuss the World Cup.
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