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Zirin: 40 Years Ago Today: Why the Smith and Carlos Legacy Lingers
Znet Article, October, 18 2008
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It lasted for only as long as it took to play the National Anthem, and yet it’s lasted for four decades. The image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, their black-gloved fists raised to the heavens on October 16th, 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics, h...
Zirin: Palin Drops the Puck
Znet Article, October, 13 2008
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You cannot make this up. Sarah Palin, the best-known hockey mom in the United States, gets booed Saturday at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game. And the game is played, of all places, at the Wachovia Center.
Zirin: Sarah Palin's Extreme Sports
Znet Article, October, 07 2008
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Ever since Andrew Johnson welcomed the New York Mutuals to the White House in 1867, presidential politics has exploited professional sports.
Zirin: Why We Need A People’s History of Sports
Znet Article, September, 09 2008
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There are those who insist that sports and politics don’t belong in the same sentence, the same zip code, or the same universe...
Zirin: Gustav and the Dome
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
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Witness the massive padlock, tightly hugging its doors. That will tell you all you need to know about Hurricane Gustav and the federal government’s carefully orchestrated response. The padlock, roughly the size of a Frisbee, is set firmly around t...
Zirin: People's History of Sports
Video, August, 30 2008
Dave Zirin
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Dave Zirin talks about his latest book...
Zirin: The 2008 Olympics: Subterranean Rot
Znet Article, August, 25 2008
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Not since Marco Polo has anyone traveled so far up China's Silk Road with such amoral élan. But there was Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, knight of the court of King Leopold's Belgium, three-time Olympian in the grand sport of yachting - stan...
Zirin: Remembering Gene Upshaw
Znet Article, August, 23 2008
Dave Zirin
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The last thirty years haven't exactly been kind to the labor movement. It's been a story of slow death, with decades of falling union numbers, stagnant wages and disappearing pensions--all signs pointing toward total oblivion. It's been the era as...
Zirin: Women’s Gymnastics: The Big Mac of the Beijing Games
Znet Article, August, 16 2008
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The Olympics and I have what you could call a conflicted relationship. There’s the beauty of the games, the enjoyment of sports that don’t normally make it onto the sports landscape. Then there’s that ugly pervasive undercurrent that can leave you...
Zirin: China’s Olympic Trials
Znet Article, August, 04 2008
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"Go Red for China!" was the slogan unveiled on the Chinese mainland by Pepsi-Cola, whose ubiquitous blue can will, "for a limited time," be red. Pepsi is just one of many companies advertising at the Olympics, at a cost of up to $6 billion, in an ...
Zirin: Why He Fears the Fist: A Response to Jonah Goldberg
Znet Article, August, 01 2008
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Jonah Goldberg’s regular column in the LA Times is usually an awkward grab bag of right wing talking points backed by knowledge of history that would shame a poodle, although a poodle would never be so pompous. Goldberg stepped on to my beat this...
Zirin: When COINTELPRO comes calling
Znet Article, July, 21 2008
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"Homeland Security" picked on the wrong group of activists, because we will not be silenced...
Zirin: A People's History of Sports in the United States
Book, July, 01 2008
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports†is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sportin...
Zirin: "Well, There You Go": Imus the Bigot Is Back
Znet Article, June, 27 2008
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Is Don Imus irredeemably stupid or just a run-of-the-mill racist? Perhaps the answer is both. On Monday, Imus's sports sidekick, Warner Wolf, was going over the incredibly long arrest history of football star Adam "Pacman" Jones and Imus just coul...
Zirin: The Over Exposure of Danica Patrick
Znet Article, June, 17 2008
Dave Zirin
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It has been quite a year for Danica Patrick. She became the first woman to win an Indy Car race, coming in first at the Indy Japan 300 on April 20. She also became the first race care driver to pose for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Zirin: Can Soccer Stop the Violence?
Znet Article, June, 10 2008
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The Boston Celtics have adopted the South African word ubuntu as a team slogan this season. It means unity, interconnectedness and literally, "we are who we are through others." There is a terrible irony that ubuntu is currently being embraced in ...
Zirin: 'Like He Died Twice': Mary Tillman's Lonesome Road
Znet Article, June, 02 2008
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Mary Tillman and her very private family are determined to go through whatever walls are in front of them, in a lonely quest for the truth...
Zirin: There’s No Place Like Home: Refocusing Olympic Protest
Znet Article, May, 05 2008
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Canadian Olympic Committee president Dick Pound made crystal clear to the Canadian Olympians, "If it is so tough for you that you can't bear not to say anything, then stay at home." USA basketball and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said, "None of thes...
Zirin: Indicted! Barry Bonds Busted by a Broken System
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
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Barry Lamar Bonds faces thirty years in prison because the Department of Justice is a corroded husk of political decay. The baseball Home Run King has now been officially indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges and it only took thre...
Zirin: Why is Imus back in the game?
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
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After a nine-month vacation, radio shock jock Don Imus will be back on the air in December. Perhaps you thought that Imus' comments calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" would have rendered him untouchable -- th...
