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Zirin: Why The Packers Back The Protesters
Znet Article, March, 02 2011
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After a thirty-year erosion of power, influence, and numerical strength, a period of reckoning has arrived for organized labor, and the terms of the debate couldn’t be starker.
Zirin: Jocks 4 Justice: John Carlos, Billy Hunter and Keyon Dooling Stand with Wisconsin Workers
Znet Article, February, 27 2011
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Unions across the country are standing with the workers of Wisconsin against the unprecedented attacks by Gov. Scott Walker.
Zirin: Fox Be Damned: Why a Packers Victory is the People’s Victory
Znet Article, February, 09 2011
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The 2011 Super Bowl was between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers – two squads whose monikers speak to their roots as factory teams in the industrial heartland.
Zirin: Soccer Clubs Central to Ending Egypt's "Dictatorship of Fear"
Znet Article, February, 01 2011
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Last Thursday, the Egyptian Soccer Federation announced that they would be suspending all league games throughout the country in an effort to keep the soccer clubs from congregating.
Zirin: Those Non-Profit Packers
Znet Article, January, 26 2011
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The Packers are owned by the fans, making them the only publicly owned, not-for-profit, major professional team in the United States.
Zirin: "I'm a Negro who speak up”: Remembering Football Great Cookie Gilchrist
Znet Article, January, 16 2011
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With the passage of time, there are two establishment responses to the great political rebels in sports.
Zirin: It's Not a Game: Sarah Palin and the Madness of March
Znet Article, January, 11 2011
Dave Zirin
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In the wake of Saturday's horrific shooting in Tucson of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other victims, long overdue attention is being paid to Republican Party heroine Sarah Palin's brazen use of violent language and symbols.
Zirin: Roger Goodell's Message to NFL Players and Fans: Drop
Znet Article, January, 09 2011
Dave Zirin
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Leave it to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to end a thrilling NFL regular season on a sour, ugly note.
Zirin: On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson Dehumanizes Michael Vick
Znet Article, January, 04 2011
Dave Zirin
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Pundits, man your stations. It seems that the Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson yipped [1] that Eagles quarterback Michael Vick should have been executed three years ago when convicted on dog-fighting charges.
Zirin: The Top Seven 'Edge of Sports' Moments of 2010
Znet Article, December, 23 2010
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Here we have what are indubitably and without argument, the top seven collisions of sports and politics in 2010 that didn’t involve an elbow and Barack Obama’s mouth.
Zirin: When Domes Collapse
Znet Article, December, 16 2010
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I have long believed that it would take an “Act of God” for Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf to get a new publicly financed football stadium.
Zirin: Talking with NFLPA President DeMaurice Smith
Znet Article, November, 27 2010
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This past week, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross showed why many owners choose to let National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell do their talking for them.
Zirin: Giants vs. Rangers: A World Series Beyond Blue and Red
Znet Article, October, 28 2010
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There is a tempting political spin to impose on the 2010 World Series: it's the ultimate red-state/blue-state showdown.
Zirin: Brett Favre Beware
Znet Article, October, 14 2010
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You may have noticed an abundance of pink on the fields of the National Football League this month. Between the pink sneakers, pink mouth guards, and pink wristbands, one would be excused for wondering how the machismo-drenched league became so fa...
Zirin: The Collapsing of the Commonwealth Games
Znet Article, September, 25 2010
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It started as the British Empire Games in 1930. It still begins with an official message from the Queen that travels by hand from Buckingham Palace. It still culminates with a tribute to the British Military that would put the old Red Square parad...
Zirin: Bud Selig: A Civil Rights Icon for Our Times… just like Beck
Znet Article, September, 05 2010
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Because I believe strongly in the rights of pigeons to have a place to roost, I wholeheartedly support the building of the Bud Selig statue outside of the Milwaukee Brewers tax-payer funded stadium, Miller Park.
Zirin: Clemens Shouldn't Have to Take the Fall
Znet Article, August, 23 2010
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Roger Clemens is about as popular in baseball circles as jock itch. The man is such a pariah, he makes Barry Bonds look like Justin Bieber. Yet we should hold the cheers over the recent news that Clemens has been indicted on perjury charges for ly...
Zirin: Rain, Risk Takers, Racists, and Rancor
Znet Article, August, 18 2010
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On Sunday in DC, I attended the 17th ballpark protest of the Arizona Diamondbacks during the 2011 baseball season.
Zirin: Talking Bad Sports With The Nation’s Dave Zirin
Znet Article, August, 02 2010
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Zirin talks about his new book, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love...
Zirin: Lebron James vs. Dan Gilbert: Who Really Killed Cleveland?
Znet Article, July, 11 2010
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Today the hate is raining on Lebron James, and make no mistake, on one level, he has earned every drop. The self-proclaimed King turned his free agent journey into reality television with all the subtety of Paris Hilton.
Zirin: Into the Vacuum: Tony La Russa Loves Arizona’s SB 1070
Znet Article, July, 03 2010
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St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has chosen to publicly back Arizona’s odious, anti-constitutional, anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070. Call me paranoid. Call me delusional. But it doesn’t take a tinfoil hat to intuit that there are larger f...
Zirin: The Eagleton has Landed: A Response on Sports and Society
Znet Article, June, 23 2010
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Terry Eagleton has been one of the great minds of the European left seemingly since Cromwell. But in his recent piece on Comment is free, Football: A Dear Friend to Capitalism, his absence of understanding on the relationship between sport and mod...
Zirin: History as Farce: Rush Limbaugh is NOT Muhammad Ali
Znet Article, May, 27 2010
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This morning on National Public Radio, Rush Limbaugh's authorized biographer Zev Chafets equated the object of his affection to boxing’s own Muhammad Ali. This is not a joke.
Zirin: Crooklyn: New Jersey Nets Sold to Russian Billionaire
Znet Article, May, 24 2010
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With a bank account estimated at in excess of $13 billion, there is little Mikhail Prokhorov wants that he cannot have. But the ease with which Russia’s richest man bought the NBA’s New Jersey Nets speaks volumes about the ailing financial state o...
Zirin: “This is Beyond Sports” Chuck D on the fight in Arizona
Znet Article, May, 12 2010
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I had done "Tear Down this Wall" four or five months ago because I heard a professor who works with my wife here on the West Coast speak in a speech about the multi-billion dollar dividing wall between the U.S. and Mexico, so, therefore, I based "...
Zirin: Los Suns Also Rise: Phoenix Suns Win in More Ways Than One
Znet Article, May, 07 2010
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Anyone who believes that sports can’t be an effective platform for social justice, needed only to watch last night’s game between Los Suns of Phoenix and the San Antonio Spurs.
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 ...
