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Zirin: Olympics Want Some Chicago Skin
Znet Article, April, 06 2007
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ANYBODY GOT $500 milli...
Zirin: Why I Wrote The Muhammad Ali Handbook
Znet Article, April, 02 2007
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Why I Wrote The Muhammad Ali Handbook
Zirin: Jocks 4 Justice Speak out for Gary Tyler
Znet Article, March, 23 2007
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The history of the Ame...
Zirin: Bowie Kuhn: The Death of a Baseball Reactionary
Znet Article, March, 17 2007
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Bowie Kuhn, baseball's fifth commissioner, passed away last night at the age of 80. I never met the man. In private, he may have made Gandhi look like Ted Nugent. For all we know, he spent weekends warming terminally ill puppies agai...
Zirin: Resurrecting Don Barksdale: Basketball's Forgotten Pioneer
Znet Article, March, 08 2007
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Resurrecting Don Barksdale: Basketball's Forgotten Pioneer
Zirin: An Open Letter to Jason Whitlock
Znet Article, February, 26 2007
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An Open Letter to Jason Whitlock
Zirin: Out of the Closet and Onto the Court
Znet Article, February, 14 2007
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There are those in the...
Zirin: Muhammad Ali: The Brand and the Man
Znet Article, January, 25 2007
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Some people though...
Zirin: "Somehow Profiting From Tragedy and Horror is Tolerated"
Znet Article, October, 22 2006
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When Pat Tillman, former NFL player and Army Ranger, died in Afghanistan in 2004, it unleashed a drama that moved from tragedy to obscenity to mystery. First there was Pat's death. Because Tillman wasn't the kind of anonymous fallen soldier the ...
Zirin: Brother of the Fist: The Passing of Peter Norman
Znet Article, October, 15 2006
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Almost four decades later, the image can still make hairs rise on unsuspecting necks. It's 1968, and 200 meter gold medalist Tommie Smith stands next to bronze winner John Carlos, their raised black gloved fists smashing the sky on the medal stand...
Zirin: Big Easy Blues: The Saints and the Superdome
Znet Article, October, 01 2006
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New Orleans is a city that suffers in silence. These days, it feels like a city being strangled in slow motion, a city whose current condition makes a lie of every political platitude preached over the past year. Yet ESPN spent four hours Monday t...
Zirin: Southpaw
Znet Article, September, 25 2006
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Stephon Marbury, the wildly talented and widely criticized point guard for the New York Knicks, usually carries a Q rating commensurate with Kim Jong Il. Making max dollars and being the face of the NBA's most dysfunctional franchise will do that....
Zirin: Cops vs. Jocks: The Shooting of Steve Foley
Znet Article, September, 13 2006
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"This one stinks like a beached whale." That's how Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Bill Conlin described the police shooting of San Diego Chargers star linebacker Steve Foley. Foley was shot at 3:30 A.M. Saturday night in front of his hom...
Zirin: Why Today I Wear My Zidane Jersey
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
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Imagine Michael Jordan in his last game, with the score tied in overtime, knocking out his defender with a punch to the throat. Imagine Derek Jeter in game seven of the World Series, at bat with the bases loaded, thrashing the opposing team's c...
Zirin: French Soccer and the Future of Europe
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
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The story of the 2006 World Cup has been the resurrection of France. After a lackluster performance in its first two games, the French team shocked the football watching world - otherwise known as "the world" - by upsetting Spain and then dethroni...
Zirin: The 2006 World Cup: Will Racism Come Home to Roost?
Znet Article, June, 12 2006
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The most watched tournament in the universe, the World Cup, opens today amid fears that an open and violent racism could upstage the games, humiliate its German hosts, and provide an international platform for Neo- Nazi swill. The rising number of...
Zirin: Edge of Sports
Znet Article, March, 26 2006
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This Sunday at 4pm, I am proud to be speaking at an event in San Francisco called a "Civil Rights Slam for Justice," sponsored by among others the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. The slam will be at the Malcolm X school at 350 Harbor Street. In...
Zirin: Stained Uniforms
Znet Article, March, 17 2006
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"WILL Major League Baseball be more resistant to change than apartheid South Africa?" That's the question posed by Dennis Brutus, a former leading fighter against apartheid who is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Allia...
Zirin: Burying Barry: Bonds and The Chain of Command
Znet Article, March, 13 2006
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"If he did it, hang him!" This is what ESPN radio host John Seibel (filling in on the Dan Patrick show) said about Barry Bonds. Is Seibel oblivious that some may take offense to the image of a controversial Black athlete being lynched, or is this ...
