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Commentary Zirin: Hardball: Giants Concession Workers Fight for the Soul of San Francisco

Commentary, May, 22 2013 Dave Zirin
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Will San Francisco ever again be anything but a playground for the overgrown millionaire children of the tech sector?

Commentary Zirin: What Did RGIII Learn at the Muhammad Ali Center?

Commentary, May, 08 2013 Dave Zirin
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RGIII was confronted with the actuality of Ali’s ideas and was deeply in awe of his sacrifice

Commentary Zirin: NHL Takes 'Historic Step' for LGBT Equality

Commentary, April, 15 2013 Dave Zirin
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In a first for a major sports organization, the National Hockey League is taking a stand against anti-LGBT bigotry in their sport

Commentary Zirin: The Sports Interview Non–Sports Fans Have to Read: My Talk With NBA Player Royce White

Commentary, March, 08 2013 Dave Zirin
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Royce White is an NBA player with a cause

Commentary Zirin: Oscar Pistorius and the Global System of Deadly Misogyny

Commentary, February, 23 2013 Dave Zirin
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Short of a billion of us rising, happy and safe homes will not be a reality for the women of the world

Commentary Zirin: NBA Player Royce White: Mental Health Revolutionary

Commentary, February, 20 2013 Dave Zirin
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NBA player Royce White wants to use basketball as a platform to fight for universal mental health coverage with clinics in every community

Commentary Zirin: 2012: The Year Our Sports Broke

Commentary, December, 27 2012 Dave Zirin
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“Sports are us, so political and personal that the yammering of most sportswriters and sportscasters may be far more dangerous than the posturing of the news clowns.”

Commentary Zirin: Nine-Year-Old Girl Plays Football, Kicks Ass and Maybe Changes the World

Commentary, November, 14 2012 Dave Zirin
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The future of sports could be a beautiful, life-affirming safe-space or it could be an anchor on human progress, expending effort on policing gender

Commentary Zirin: After the London Olympics: “The Gloves Come Off”

Commentary, August, 16 2012 Dave Zirin
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"After the Olympics the gloves will come off." They all meant that the Olympics were a vacation from political reality

Commentary Zirin: Drew Brees, Union Power and the Big Payback

Commentary, July, 04 2012 Dave Zirin
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This is about ensuring that anyone who wants a union or is in a union can speak out in defense of their livelihood

Commentary Zirin: "Drones, Missiles, and Gunships, Oh My!" Welcome to the 2012 London Olympics

Commentary, May, 16 2012 Dave Zirin
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Local police forces have just been given an inordinate number of new toys and the boxes have been opened, the receipts tossed away

Commentary Zirin: 20 Years Later: Want to Understand the '92 LA Riots? Start with the '84 LA Olympics

Commentary, May, 05 2012 Dave Zirin
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When the people have no voice, no community, and no power, their frustration is left no physical choice but to explode

Commentary Zirin: 25 Years Since Al Campanis Shocked Baseball: What's Changed and What's Stayed The Same

Commentary, April, 18 2012 Dave Zirin
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The Campanis lesson for Major League Baseball hasn’t been to take on racism in the sport, but find executives who can smile for the camera and talk a cat out of a tree

Commentary Zirin: Trayvon Martin’s Death, LeBron James and the Miami Heat

Commentary, March, 30 2012 Dave Zirin
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That’s the scary thing about choosing to give a damn. People will expect you to mean it

Commentary Zirin: Beneath the Brackets: March Madness and the “Civil Rights Movement for Our Times”

Commentary, March, 13 2012 Dave Zirin
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In our perennial rite of spring, we are being bombarded with bracketology, Final Four predictions and the general hoops hysteria otherwise known as "March Madness

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