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Zirin: “This is Racist Stuff”: Baseball Players/Union Speak Out Against Arizona Law
Znet Article, May, 03 2010
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In the days following the passage of the racist Arizona anti-immigrant bill, SB 1070, Major League Baseball’s Latino players were conspicuous in their silence.
Zirin: To Catch a Fire: Diamondback Protests Take Off
Znet Article, April, 30 2010
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This weekend in Chicago. May 3-6 in Houston. May 14-16 in Atlanta. May 17-18 in Florida. May 25-27 in Colorado. May 28-30 in San Francisco. And that’s just May. These are the road game locations for the Arizona Diamondbacks over the next month. Th...
Zirin: No One is Illegal: Boycott the Arizona Diamondbacks
Znet Article, April, 25 2010
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This will be the last column I write about the Arizona Diamondbacks in the foreseeable future. For me, they do not exist. They will continue to not exist in my mind as long as the horribly named “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods ...
Zirin: Ben Roethlisberger: No Justice, No Play?
Znet Article, April, 24 2010
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Ben Roethlisberger should be thanking the heavens that he possesses the unique skill to throw a football sixty yards. If he was Ben the 28 year old mill worker accused of raping a 20 year old student in the bathroom of a college town bar, he’d be ...
Zirin: A Stadium Grows in Durban
Znet Article, April, 18 2010
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I have been to many a playing field in my day, and never have I seen a sports arena as breathtaking as Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa. After taking a private tour of the $457 million marvel, I left utterly stunned, for both better a...
Zirin: The Nike Ad: Tiger the Brand Finally Conquers Tiger the Man
Znet Article, April, 11 2010
Dave Zirin
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Why is the new Nike ad with a downcast yet proudly resilient Tiger Woods hearing the voice of his dead father making me so furious? It defies logic. After all, we just came through a week during which we saw film footage of the US military taking ...
Zirin: Let Caster Run!
Znet Article, April, 04 2010
Dave Zirin
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Caster Semenya showed up to race in Stellenbosch, South Africa, this week and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) wouldn't let her run. Before we get into the specifics, let's take a moment to appreciate the courage invol...
Zirin: The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse
Znet Article, March, 13 2010
Dave Zirin
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The present situation in South Africa could be called "Invictus in reverse." For those who haven't had the pleasure, the film Invictus is about the way Nelson Mandela used sport, particularly the near all-white sport of rugby to unite the country ...
Zirin: Note to ESPN’s Bill Simmons: Tiger Woods is not Muhammad Ali
Znet Article, March, 04 2010
Dave Zirin
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Can ESPN please declare a company-wide moratorium on comparing current athletes to Muhammad Ali? I thought it was unfortunate when columnist Jemele Hill wrote that anti-choice icon Tim Tebow was "as courageous" as Ali. But that comparison is inspi...
Zirin: Sportsmanship: The Great Olympic Fraud
Znet Article, February, 26 2010
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It was called the “Own the Podium” campaign, Canada’s efforts to win enough gold medals to make Ron Paul defect. Its zeal for gold meant such sporting practices as locking athletes from other countries out of the practice facilities. Anything for ...
Zirin: Nodar Kumaritashvili: Never Forget
Znet Article, February, 23 2010
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The charter of the International Olympic Committee states that one of the Committee's primary objectives is to "encourage and support the promotion of ethics in sports." The circumstances surrounding the death of Georgian luge slider Nodar Kumarit...
Zirin: Tiger Woods: Brand Rehabilitation
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
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Today's Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in painful self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I haven't seen anything this painfully scripted since the Phantom Menace. The same George W. Bush media advisers ...
Zirin: Fruits of the Backlash
Znet Article, February, 19 2010
Dave Zirin
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Many in the media are already apoplectic about the infamous launch of the All-American Basketball Alliance (AABA). For those untainted by the news, the AABA would be a league exclusively for native-born whites. According to its press release, "onl...
Zirin: Christopher Hitchens: Sporting Fool
Znet Article, February, 14 2010
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Nuance is the mortal enemy of essayist Christopher Hitchens. Whether it’s his rapturous support for Bush’s Iraq invasion or his best-selling dismissal (God is NOT Good) of religion, Hitchens will always eschew a surgical analysis for the rhetorica...
Zirin: When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown
Znet Article, February, 10 2010
Dave Zirin
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News Flash: Winter Olympic officials in tropical Vancouver have been forced to import snow - on the public dime - to make sure that the 2010 games proceed as planned. This use of tax-dollars is just the icing on the cake for increasingly angry Van...
Zirin: As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading Games
Znet Article, January, 30 2010
Dave Zirin
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The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in town to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces. It's clear that the 2010 Winter Games has made the mood in the bucolic coastal city decidedly overcas...
Zirin: As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading Games
Znet Article, January, 30 2010
Dave Zirin
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The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in town to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces. It's clear that the 2010 Winter Games has made the mood in the bucolic coastal city decidedly overcas...
Zirin: NFL Owners Stiff-arm Fans/Union
Znet Article, January, 23 2010
Dave Zirin
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Call it the Super Bowl for lawyers and the reckoning for football fans. On January 13 the owners of all thirty-two NFL teams asked the Supreme Court to shield them from anti-trust laws. Their argument is that the league does not comprise, despite ...
Zirin: One thing about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: the man understood sports.
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
Dave Zirin
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I don't mean that King was any kind of a star athlete. The only sport that the young, roundish "Mike" King was known to excel at was pocket billiards, which isn't exactly a sport (the golden rule: anything that you can gain weight or smoke cigaret...
Zirin: Mark McGwire's Pound of Flesh
Znet Article, January, 13 2010
Dave Zirin
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In the ten years Brian Williams has anchored the NBC Nightly News, he has never once launched a broadcast by lambasting a public figure. Henry Paulson after the economic collapse? George W. Bush after Katrina? Dick Cheney after everything? All wer...
