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Znet Article Zirin: Decriminalize the Game: A Solution to Baseball’s Drug Wars

Znet Article, June, 11 2013 Dave Zirin
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Steroids and all PEDs need to be seen as an issue of public health, not crime and punishment

Znet Article Zirin: Rep. Steve King: "Why Won't Obama Call Tim Tebow?"

Znet Article, May, 16 2013 Dave Zirin
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Representative Steve King invoked the name of Tim Tebow as a contrast to the athlete he sees is “undermining Western Civilization”: Jason Collins

Znet Article Zirin: Jason Collins: The Substance of Change

Znet Article, May, 03 2013 Dave Zirin
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"I was certain that my world would fall apart if anyone knew. And yet when I acknowledged my sexuality I felt whole for the first time”

Znet Article Zirin: A Fighter by His Trade: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Sports and the American Dream

Znet Article, May, 02 2013 Dave Zirin
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Alienation, poverty and despair drive people—overwhelmingly young men—to awful acts of violence

Znet Article Zirin: The Boston Marathon: All My Tears, All My Love

Znet Article, April, 16 2013 Dave Zirin
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Instead of the triumph of the individual amidst the powerful throngs and inspiration of the collective, we have tragedy, disarray, panic, and fear

Znet Article Zirin: Pro Sports Can Help End Rape

Znet Article, March, 30 2013 Dave Zirin
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It’s time for sports to pick a side and take their share of accountability for the toxicity in our culture that normalizes rape

Znet Article Zirin: Steubenville and Challenging Rape Culture in Sports

Znet Article, March, 16 2013 Dave Zirin
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I don’t believe that rape culture is an endemic part of men’s sports. I do believe that rape culture is an endemic part of teenage boys being treated like gods

Znet Article Zirin: Why Major League Baseball Owners Will Cheer the Death of Hugo Chavez

Znet Article, March, 14 2013 Dave Zirin
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The passing of Hugo Chávez will also provoke unbridled joy in the corridors of power of Major League Baseball

Znet Article Zirin: A Football Stadium Becomes Ground Zero in the Fight Against the New Jim Crow

Znet Article, March, 05 2013 Dave Zirin
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For the first time on record, hundreds of students are raising their voices against the renaming of their school’s football stadium

Znet Article Zirin: Is it Getting Better? Homophobia Rocks Super Bowl

Znet Article, February, 03 2013 Dave Zirin
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We’ve seen the truth about whether there is an LGBT-friendly culture in the NFL and the truth is that we have a ways to go

Znet Article Zirin: 'It's a New World': The Super Bowl Becomes a Platform for LGBT Equality

Znet Article, January, 31 2013 Dave Zirin
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The Super Bowl pits two NFL teams connected directly and indirectly to the struggles for LGBT rights

Znet Article Zirin: The NFL: Where Dr. King's "Dream" Goes to Die

Znet Article, January, 24 2013 Dave Zirin
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NFL football stands as a living monument of the distance we still must travel to slay Dr. King's "giant triplets"

Znet Article Zirin: RGIII and the Crisis of Liberalism in the United States

Znet Article, January, 13 2013 Dave Zirin
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There was a time when progressives, as a point of principle, made an effort to side with the people against the tyrannical and corrupt

Znet Article Zirin: Notre Dame and Penn State: Two Rape Scandals, Only One Cry for Justice

Znet Article, January, 11 2013 Dave Zirin
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Two storied college football programs. Two rape scandals. Only one national outcry

Znet Article Zirin: Roger Goodell: The Wayne LaPierre of the Sports World

Znet Article, December, 31 2012 Dave Zirin
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Sports writers have become so conditioned to swallow whatever craven, logic-defying line oozes from the league offices

Znet Article Zirin: "I Am Not Backtracking At All": Bob Costas In His Own Words

Znet Article, December, 09 2012 Dave Zirin
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. I’m mystified by those who say that pointing out that the easy access to handguns and the existence of a gun culture makes tragedies like this more likely

Znet Article Zirin: Rest in Power, Marvin Miller

Znet Article, November, 29 2012 Dave Zirin
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Marvin Miller, the legendary leader of the Major League Baseball Player's Association, passed away at the age of 95

Znet Article Zirin: Killing Hope: Why Israel Targets Sports in Gaza

Znet Article, November, 20 2012 Dave Zirin
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Attacking sports is about nothing less than killing hope

Znet Article Zirin: 2012 Elections Heralded by Sergio Romo's Shirt

Znet Article, November, 11 2012 Dave Zirin
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Sergio Romo was brave enough to spark a conversation that needs to be had

Znet Article Zirin: James Harden, the NBA and the Myth of Small Markets

Znet Article, October, 31 2012 Dave Zirin
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, Bennett gets to be the Bain Capital of owners: harvesting teams for profits and then throwing away their dried husks when profit margins are under any kind of threat

Znet Article Zirin: "It's Bonds. Barry Bonds": The Return of Baseball's Invisible Man

Znet Article, October, 28 2012 Dave Zirin
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“Is steroids cheating? You want to define cheating in America? When they make a shirt in Korea for a $1.50 and sell it here for 500 bucks. And you ask me what cheating means?”

Znet Article Zirin: The Recusal: Roger Goodell Just Had a Great Fall

Znet Article, October, 25 2012 Dave Zirin
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Goodell's recusal is a victory for the non-1%-ers that that are glued to the sport

Znet Article Zirin: Meet the Lockout Lawyers Destroying Sports

Znet Article, October, 17 2012 Dave Zirin
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Currently the sports world is suffering its fourth lockout in the past fourteen months

Znet Article Zirin: Smartest Or Dumbest Tweet Ever?

Znet Article, October, 11 2012 Dave Zirin
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An online comment by Ohio State football player Cardale Jones exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of the NCAA's attitude toward "student-athletes."

Znet Article Zirin: Palestinian Soccer Player Mahmoud Sarsak Won't Play FC Barcelona's Game

Znet Article, October, 05 2012 Dave Zirin
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“His slogan is the gun, whereas mine is football, whose message is love and peace. For this reason I will refuse.”

Znet Article Zirin: It's Over: The NFL's Union Referees Return to Work in Style

Znet Article, September, 29 2012 Dave Zirin
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We now have an answer to the question, "What does it take to pierce the shame-free cocoon of unreality where NFL owners reside?"

Znet Article Zirin: NFL Scab Referees and the Return of TV Bloopers

Znet Article, September, 27 2012 Dave Zirin
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The National Football League owners, in their infinite greed, have returned the blooper show with the weekly hi-jinks of its stumbling, bumbling, scab referees

Znet Article Zirin: Letter From Rio: Save Armando's House From the Olympics

Znet Article, September, 23 2012 Dave Zirin
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You can’t understand what the 2016 Olympics are going to do to Rio de Janeiro, unless you understand what went into building Armando’s house

Znet Article Zirin: Chris Kluwe and the Greatest Political Statement by Any Athlete Ever

Znet Article, September, 11 2012 Dave Zirin
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Speaking out always holds the risk of a backlash: especially for pro athletes and especially when standing up for LGBT equality

Znet Article Zirin: NFL Season Opens Under the Darkest of Shadows

Znet Article, September, 08 2012 Dave Zirin
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The best way to understand the NFL is to see it as another of this country’s profoundly unsafe workplaces

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