The Basktball Feelings Podcast, Episode 57: Courtney M. Cox

I think we’re in a crisis of basketball media… this main character energy that I keep seeing across mainstream sports media where it’s no longer about accuracy, analysis, learning something — there’s either weird pick-me energy happening or you’re now the central character. This talking heads era is absent of any kind of empathy.

I met Dr. Courtney M. Cox at a party put on by the Dallas Wings during a Women’s Final Four, where women hired to dance as anthropomorphized disco balls stalked and strutted around the room. Knowing now what I do about Courtney and her ability to zero in on people’s labour, especially labour in the margins, it’s not a surprise we both shared a look of, “Are you seeing this?”

Since then, Courtney’s made the move to Oregon, where she’s an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She’s also written a phenomenal book, Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball, which focuses …