Vice World of Sports (2016)
Get on the field and into the ring through a series of compelling stories at the fringe of culture and politics, across a range of places and people through the one lens that connects them all: sport.
Vice World of Sports: Season 1 - 9 Episode s
1x1 - Boys of Bukom
April 27, 2016
The real Mecca of boxing isn't Vegas. It's a slum village on the coast of Ghana.
1x2 - The Eternal Derby
May 4, 2016
In Serbia, one violent game has endured communism and civil war. The Eternal Derby.
1x3 - Bayou Classic
May 11, 2016
At the Louisiana rivalry known as "The Black Superbowl", gametime is at the half.
1x4 - Las Grandes Ligas
May 18, 2016
As Cuba and America embark on a seismic shift, Cuban ballplayers are caught in the middle: forced to wait on diplomacy or risk their lives for their chance at the Majors.
1x5 - The Luzira Upper Prison
May 25, 2016
Overcrowded and underfunded, Luzira is home to Uganda's only maximum-security prison--but also an elaborate soccer league.
1x6 - The Perfect Sheet
June 1, 2016
Hockey's "Gibson Cup" is as old as the sport itself, and in a quiet Michigan town where the game was first born, two teams have been battling for it for over 100 years.
1x7 - Jake & Zane
June 8, 2016
The tiny village of Iten, Kenya is home to the fastest runners in the world, more record-holders than anywhere else…and a pair of testy twins from New Zealand.
1x8 - The Line
June 15, 2016
Amidst scandals, legislative battles and the new frontier of daily fantasy, the biggest debate in the world of sports today is gambling. Is it legal? And how do you define it?
1x9 - Seven Generations
June 22, 2016
Across a history of oppression, through years of federal neglect and in the midst of a cultural awakening, one sport has endured on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation: basketball.