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Znet Article Zirin: Super Hypocrisy

Znet Article, February, 04 2006 Dave Zirin
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"A celebration of concentrated wealth." That's what Washington Post sportswriter Tony Kornheiser called the National Football League's two-week long pre-Super Bowl party binge. Every Super Bowl Sunday, corporate executives and politicians exchange...

Znet Article Zirin: Crossroads: Race and Coaching in the NFL

Znet Article, January, 09 2006 Dave Zirin
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Anyone searching for job security shouldn't look for a career in NFL coaching. A full one-quarter of coaches have been canned including Oakland's Norv Turner, New Orleans' Jim Haslett, and a myriad of Mikes: Mike Sherman of Green Bay, Mike Tice fr...

Znet Article Zirin: Sneering at Redemption

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 Dave Zirin
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In the end, we can only assume the decision wasn't so "agonizing" after all. Last night Stan Tookie Williams was legally lynched by the state of California, at the behest of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who denied Williams' appeal for clemency. ...

Znet Article Zirin: The Champ Meets the Chump: Bush and Ali

Znet Article, November, 20 2005 Dave Zirin
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The presidency of George W. Bush is collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence. The polls speak for themselves--only 35 percent of us approve of his job performance. Fifty-six percent--including one in four Republicans--say the war in Ira...

Znet Article Zirin: Barry Bonds Laughs Last

Znet Article, October, 10 2005 Dave Zirin
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"I think we have other issues in this country to worry about that are a lot more serious. Talk about the athletes that are helping Katrina victims....You know what? There are still other issues that are more important (than steroid use in baseball...

Znet Article Zirin: Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968

Znet Article, September, 28 2005 Dave Zirin
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1968. There was never a year when the worlds of sports and politics collided so breathlessly, without mercy or respite. It was the year Muhammad Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title for resisting the draft, spoke on 200 college campuses and aske...

Znet Article Zirin: Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 Dave Zirin
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Folks - this is a review of badass British anti-war MP George Galloway's new book 'Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington.' Galloway is about to embark on a tour of the United States to build momentum for the September 24th anti-war demos in Washington D...

Znet Article Zirin: The Superdome: Monument to a Rotten System

Znet Article, September, 04 2005 Dave Zirin
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There is nothing 'unnatural' about the disaster of New Orleans. When politicians smirk at global warming, when developers look at our wetlands and dream of mini malls, when billions are flushed in the name of war and tax-cuts, when issues of pover...

Znet Article Zirin: Fade To Black

Znet Article, September, 01 2005 Dave Zirin
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LA Dodgers Outfielder, and anger management class alumnus, Milton Bradley has been called everything from "perennially enflamed" to "certifiably insane." But his voice was as calm as the Dead Sea when he addressed reporters last week. Bradley soun...

Znet Article Zirin: Major League Bigorty

Znet Article, August, 17 2005 Dave Zirin
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First Essay:Si Se Puede: Felipe Alou Stands Up to Bigotry In the current climate of anti-immigrant, Latino- bashing, border patroling, right-wing chic, let this message ring across the land: don't mess with Felipe Alou. Don't mess with the 70 ye...

Znet Article Zirin: Live Strong or Live Wrong?

Znet Article, July, 27 2005 Dave Zirin
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To all the haters that don't think cycling is a sport, and the Tour De France ranks just below watching an apple turn brown, let's be clear: Lance Armstrong has earned the love. The cancer-surviving cyclist ended his career with a record seventh s...

Znet Article Zirin: What's My Name Fool?"

Znet Article, July, 19 2005 Dave Zirin
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, "What's My Name Fool?", is about? What's My Name Fool? sports and resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books) is an effort to reveal the hidden history of radical politics in US pro sports...

Znet Article Zirin: Edge of Sports

Znet Article, July, 17 2005 Dave Zirin
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In High School, I was a 5' 10" inch center for the fearsome Friends Seminary Quakers in New York City. It wasn't pretty, but I lived for it and didn't care if the opposing center could spit on my head. I just loved sports. My walls were shrines to...

Znet Article Zirin: Pining for the Pistons

Znet Article, July, 04 2005 Dave Zirin
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[Note: This column is 200 words shorter than usual because Billy Hunter lost 25% of it in the NBA's new Collective Bargaining Agreement.] The world be an incrementally better place if the Detroit Pistons had won the NBA championship last week. I ...

Znet Article Zirin: Crass Slipper Fits 'Cinderella Man'

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Dave Zirin
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"When our country was on it's knees, he brought America to his feet." So is the tagline for Ron Howard's Depression Era boxing film Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe. Cinderella Man, the story of 1930's heavyweight champion James J. Braddock, ...

Znet Article Zirin: Killing Their Own Poster Boy

Znet Article, May, 29 2005 Dave Zirin
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To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game. - Bob Dylan When former Arizona Cardinals football player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan, sonorous bugl...

Znet Article Zirin: Steve Nash Wins the MVP - And It Feels So Good

Znet Article, May, 17 2005 Dave Zirin
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By electing Steve Nash the NBA's Most Valuable Player, the pro basketball media made the day of everyone who plays hoops on Friday and protests the US war machine on Saturday. First and foremost, Steve Nash deserved this award. He averaged a leag...

Znet Article Zirin: Baseball's "Theater of the Absurd"

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Dave Zirin
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'A theater of the absurd.' This is how Rep. Tom Lantos described Thursday's 'steroid hearings' on Capital Hill. The description is apt. Viewers, as CSPAN and ESPN joined forces, witnessed hearings as pointless as they were, admittedly, riveting. ...

Znet Article Zirin: Governor Robert Ehrlich Vs. Vernon Lee Evans

Znet Article, March, 07 2005 Dave Zirin
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At first glance, it doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner, standing at well over six feet tall and wearing the $3,000 suit, we have Bob Ehrlich, a former Princeton pugilist, and ex- pro wrestling attorney. He is ambitious, ruthless, and we...

Znet Article Zirin: Jose Canseco: "The Chemist" Comes Clean

Znet Article, February, 16 2005 Dave Zirin
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Jose Canseco has never been this dangerous. In his just-released book "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," the former Oakland A's Most Valuable Player is hawking an insider look on how steroids dominate tra...

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