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Zirin: Rep. Steve King: "Why Won't Obama Call Tim Tebow?"
Znet Article, May, 16 2013
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Representative Steve King invoked the name of Tim Tebow as a contrast to the athlete he sees is “undermining Western Civilization”: Jason Collins
Zirin: What Did RGIII Learn at the Muhammad Ali Center?
Commentary, May, 08 2013
Dave Zirin
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RGIII was confronted with the actuality of Ali’s ideas and was deeply in awe of his sacrifice
Zirin: Jason Collins: The Substance of Change
Znet Article, May, 03 2013
Dave Zirin
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"I was certain that my world would fall apart if anyone knew. And yet when I acknowledged my sexuality I felt whole for the first time”
Zirin: A Fighter by His Trade: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Sports and the American Dream
Znet Article, May, 02 2013
Dave Zirin
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Alienation, poverty and despair drive people—overwhelmingly young men—to awful acts of violence
Zirin: The Boston Marathon: All My Tears, All My Love
Znet Article, April, 16 2013
Dave Zirin
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Instead of the triumph of the individual amidst the powerful throngs and inspiration of the collective, we have tragedy, disarray, panic, and fear
Zirin: NHL Takes 'Historic Step' for LGBT Equality
Commentary, April, 15 2013
Dave Zirin
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In a first for a major sports organization, the National Hockey League is taking a stand against anti-LGBT bigotry in their sport
Zirin: Pro Sports Can Help End Rape
Znet Article, March, 30 2013
Dave Zirin
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It’s time for sports to pick a side and take their share of accountability for the toxicity in our culture that normalizes rape
Zirin: Steubenville and Challenging Rape Culture in Sports
Znet Article, March, 16 2013
Dave Zirin
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I don’t believe that rape culture is an endemic part of men’s sports. I do believe that rape culture is an endemic part of teenage boys being treated like gods
Zirin: Why Major League Baseball Owners Will Cheer the Death of Hugo Chavez
Znet Article, March, 14 2013
Dave Zirin
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The passing of Hugo Chávez will also provoke unbridled joy in the corridors of power of Major League Baseball
Zirin: The Sports Interview Non–Sports Fans Have to Read: My Talk With NBA Player Royce White
Commentary, March, 08 2013
Dave Zirin
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Royce White is an NBA player with a cause
Zirin: A Football Stadium Becomes Ground Zero in the Fight Against the New Jim Crow
Znet Article, March, 05 2013
Dave Zirin
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For the first time on record, hundreds of students are raising their voices against the renaming of their school’s football stadium
Zirin: Oscar Pistorius and the Global System of Deadly Misogyny
Commentary, February, 23 2013
Dave Zirin
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Short of a billion of us rising, happy and safe homes will not be a reality for the women of the world
Zirin: NBA Player Royce White: Mental Health Revolutionary
Commentary, February, 20 2013
Dave Zirin
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NBA player Royce White wants to use basketball as a platform to fight for universal mental health coverage with clinics in every community
Zirin: Is it Getting Better? Homophobia Rocks Super Bowl
Znet Article, February, 03 2013
Dave Zirin
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We’ve seen the truth about whether there is an LGBT-friendly culture in the NFL and the truth is that we have a ways to go
Zirin: 'It's a New World': The Super Bowl Becomes a Platform for LGBT Equality
Znet Article, January, 31 2013
Dave Zirin
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The Super Bowl pits two NFL teams connected directly and indirectly to the struggles for LGBT rights
Zirin: The NFL: Where Dr. King's "Dream" Goes to Die
Znet Article, January, 24 2013
Dave Zirin
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NFL football stands as a living monument of the distance we still must travel to slay Dr. King's "giant triplets"
Zirin: RGIII and the Crisis of Liberalism in the United States
Znet Article, January, 13 2013
Dave Zirin
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There was a time when progressives, as a point of principle, made an effort to side with the people against the tyrannical and corrupt
Zirin: Notre Dame and Penn State: Two Rape Scandals, Only One Cry for Justice
Znet Article, January, 11 2013
Dave Zirin
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Two storied college football programs. Two rape scandals. Only one national outcry
Zirin: Roger Goodell: The Wayne LaPierre of the Sports World
Znet Article, December, 31 2012
Dave Zirin
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Sports writers have become so conditioned to swallow whatever craven, logic-defying line oozes from the league offices
Zirin: 2012: The Year Our Sports Broke
Commentary, December, 27 2012
Dave Zirin
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“Sports are us, so political and personal that the yammering of most sportswriters and sportscasters may be far more dangerous than the posturing of the news clowns.”
