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Zirin: Note to ESPN’s Bill Simmons: Tiger Woods is not Muhammad Ali
Znet Article, March, 04 2010
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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: 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
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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: Tiger's Fall from Grace
Znet Article, December, 14 2009
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Tiger Woods's self-imposed exile from golf is the most stunning--and stunningly rapid--fall from grace in the history of sports. Not since Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball after being dubiously blamed for helping throw the 1919 World ...
Zirin: The Serena Williams Double Standard
Znet Article, September, 16 2009
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A top-ranked tennis player in a moment of rage cursed out a judge and shocked the world, headlining every sports and news program from ESPN to MSNBC. Meanwhile, another champion tennis player hurled expletives at a judge and the media barely yawne...
Zirin: Stop the Savage Sex Scare in Sports
Znet Article, September, 14 2009
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The salacious sports media and the puritanical zealots that run international track and field have joined forces to hit a new low. Someone in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) leaked to the press that Caster Semenya, th...
Zirin: President Obama: Jack Johnson Punched Back
Znet Article, August, 31 2009
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In a recent monologue, Bill Maher said that the United States has two main political parties: one party on the center-right: the Democrats, and one party in a mental institution: the Republicans. Frankly, his comment insults those who receive care...
Zirin: Caster Semenya Aint 8 Feet Tall
Znet Article, August, 26 2009
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If you aspire to be a star woman athlete but have no aspirations to appear in Playboy's Women of the Olympics issue, you are far better off being from South Africa than the United States. The Western media's handling of the story of Caster Semenya...
Zirin: Caster Semenya and the Idiocy of Sex Testing
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
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World-class South African athlete Caster Semenya, age 18, won the 800 meters in the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships on August 19. But her victory was all the more remarkable in that she was forced to run amid...
Zirin: Sexism on Centre Court
Znet Article, July, 09 2009
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On Saturday, at Wimbledon's Centre Court, Serena and Venus Williams extended their generational dominance of women's tennis in electric fashion. They went head to head for the twenty-first time and Serena took an 11-10 lead in their sibling rivalr...
Zirin: Who will break the glass closet?
Znet Article, July, 01 2009
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As the movement for marriage equality and gay liberation gains momentum, we should peer with heightened expectation toward the world of sports. Yes, sports. Every movement for civil rights over the past century has seen the struggle for equality r...
Zirin: Iran: It Aint a Soccer Riot
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
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Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has compared the protests following his country's recent sham election to the common scuffles that take place after a soccer game...
Zirin: Home Runs and Hypocrisy: The Shaming of Manny Ramirez
Znet Article, May, 09 2009
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You would think that Manny Ramirez was caught fighting pit bulls alongside Martha Stewart.
Zirin: All Hail the The Recession Bowl
Znet Article, February, 02 2009
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In the most jaw-dropping, gut-twisting, Super Bowl ever played, the Pittsburgh Steelers escaped by the skin of their gold and black unis, winning 27-23 over the Arizona Cardinals, with two lead changes in the last two minutes and thirty seconds. I...
Zirin: No Justice, No Play? Gaza Anger Overwhelms Hoops Contest
Znet Article, January, 11 2009
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We have officially entered uncharted waters. Never before in my years of reporting has a sports team been forced to abandon the field of play due to political protest from fans. Never before have fans become the central actors in turning a sportin...
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: 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...
