q sports panel on the routine injustice of March Madness

q's sports culture panel thinks beyond the play-by-play to weigh in on the societal impact of sports stories. Not a fan? Not a problem. Our panel watches much more than the scoreboard. 

Today the Toronto Star's Morgan Campbell, CBC host and reporter Sonali Karnick and The Nation's Dave Zirin join Shad to discuss the biggest and strangest stories in sports. 

• March Madness — a.k.a. Basketball Christmas — is officially underway, but the sports panel agrees: the truly mad thing is that the players at the centre of this commercial juggernaut are still not being compensated fairly. 

• The eyes of the athletic world are once again focused on Russia for all the wrong reasons, amid yet another doping scandal. But is this country uniquely corrupt? Or uniquely sloppy about it? 
   
• The Washington Redskins unveiled their plans for a new stadium that includes a throwback to the dark ages — a moat. The panel thought this was fitting since the team has shown a reluctance to move with the times in other aspects.

WEB EXTRA | On the heels of Shad's chat with Alan Cumming about sappy songs, he couldn't help but ask the panel for the song that pulls their heart strings. Grab your tissues, here they are: 

Morgan Campbell chose Breathe's song is called Hands to Heaven — a track some people won't admit to knowing, but he's happy to say he loves. 

Sonali Karnick struggled to choose between sappy Bollywood songs,  then ultimately landed on Harry Belafonte's Danny Boy. "If you don't cry listening to that song, you are dead inside." 

Dave Zirin rapped right into his selection. No chill here. Like LL Cool J, he just needs love.