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Znet Article Zirin: Stop the Savage Sex Scare in Sports

Znet Article, September, 14 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: President Obama: Jack Johnson Punched Back

Znet Article, August, 31 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Caster Semenya Aint 8 Feet Tall

Znet Article, August, 26 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Caster Semenya and the Idiocy of Sex Testing

Znet Article, August, 22 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: McNabb, Eagles Give Vick Second Chance. Will Philly Fans?

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Dave Zirin
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When a high school football star named Michael Vick visited Syracuse University, he was hosted by the big man on campus, quarterback Donovan McNabb. Today, McNabb is once again going to be hosting Vick and Vick will need his old friend to steer hi...

Znet Article Zirin: Boxing's Month From Hell

Znet Article, August, 13 2009 Dave Zirin
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This July, all the boxing news of note has been in the obituaries. Death has visited the sport like a plague, shocking even the most callous observers.

Znet Article Zirin: The Paulsons' Edifice Complex

Znet Article, August, 06 2009 Dave Zirin
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For Henry Paulson and his son Merritt, the taxpayers of Portland, Oregon, must look like geese with an infinite supply of golden eggs.

Znet Article Zirin: Sexism on Centre Court

Znet Article, July, 09 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Who will break the glass closet?

Znet Article, July, 01 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Iran: It Aint a Soccer Riot

Znet Article, June, 16 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Dave Zirin
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Reporters, pundits and conservative think tanks are picking through every last detail of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's professional life. But let the other journalists, bloggers and assorted trolls attempt to divine her views on abortion...

Znet Article Zirin: The Problem with New Orleans Getting the Bowl

Znet Article, May, 24 2009 Dave Zirin
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Only in New Orleans could this be classified as "a return to normalcy." The Crescent City, torn asunder by Hurricane Katrina, stamped by federal neglect and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's neoliberal experimentaion, will once again collide with ...

Znet Article Zirin: Home Runs and Hypocrisy: The Shaming of Manny Ramirez

Znet Article, May, 09 2009 Dave Zirin
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You would think that Manny Ramirez was caught fighting pit bulls alongside Martha Stewart.

Znet Article Zirin: The Meaning of Michigan State

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Dave Zirin
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Monday night, in front of 72,922 people at Detroit's Ford Field, the North Carolina Tar Heels fulfilled almost every preseason prognosis and became the NCAA men's basketball hoops champs. The Heels dominated this tournament, leading by double digi...

Znet Article Zirin: Branded: Myles Brand and the Madness of March

Znet Article, March, 29 2009 Dave Zirin
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There is nothing like March Madness. In your typical American workplace no event unites sports fans with non-sports fans quite like it. Every year, it's practically a rite of spring to find overheated business articles lamenting lost productivity,...

Znet Article Zirin: Charles Barkley and the Fight for Immigrant Rights

Znet Article, March, 12 2009 Dave Zirin
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If you tuned into CNN last weekend, you may have seen a press conference with NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley and a plump, hatchet-faced lawman who calls himself "the toughest sheriff in America," Joe Arpaio. You may have caught Sheriff Joe maki...

Znet Article Zirin: The US v. Barry Bonds

Znet Article, February, 24 2009 Dave Zirin
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This is a story about garbage. There's the actual garbage overzealous federal investigators examined in their efforts to prosecute a surly sports celebrity. There's the shredding of the Bill of Rights, crudely ignored by the government in the name...

Znet Article Zirin: Obama’s Unfortunate Hoop Dreams (or schooling Arne Duncan)

Znet Article, February, 19 2009 Dave Zirin
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There is no doubt that when it comes to hoops, Duncan has game. The man stands six feet, five inches. He was an Academic All-American baller at Harvard University and played professionally in Australia for four years. Long before becoming "Chief ...

Znet Article Zirin: A-Rod, Anabolic Agonist

Znet Article, February, 11 2009 Dave Zirin
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Should we pity Alex Rodriguez? The three-time MVP, owed $275 million over the next nine years, has been exposed as a steroid user, the latest in Major League Baseball's endless series of anabolic agonists. The creative minds at the New York Post s...

Znet Article Zirin: All Hail the The Recession Bowl

Znet Article, February, 02 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: No Justice, No Play? Gaza Anger Overwhelms Hoops Contest

Znet Article, January, 11 2009 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Breaking New Ground: Politics and Sports in 2008

Znet Article, January, 06 2009 Dave Zirin
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There will be more than a few articles proclaiming 2008 the greatest "sports year" in decades, if not ever. If the definition of sports is confined to professional sports played by men, then this hyperbolic statement could have a ring of truth. Ti...

Znet Article Zirin: Enduring Dixie: College Football Today

Znet Article, December, 18 2008 Dave Zirin
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In 2008 we are faced with a question: What is the easier path for an African-American male, becoming president of the United States or an NCAA Division I football coach? The answer reveals something sordid about college sports, as well as universi...

Znet Article Zirin: Burress and the Bloomberg

Znet Article, December, 06 2008 Dave Zirin
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Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week: all Plaxico, all the time. There's nothing like an NFL player shooting a hole in his own leg in a packed nightclub to become our latest walking, talking weapon of mass distraction. Why ponder the global ...

Znet Article Zirin: Merritt-ocracy: The Paulson Sporting Doctrine

Znet Article, October, 24 2008 Dave Zirin
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In the United States, politicians drill into our heads that there is no money for healthcare, no money for infrastructure and no money for schools. But thanks to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, we now know that there is cash aplenty for bailing ...

Znet Article Zirin: 40 Years Ago Today: Why the Smith and Carlos Legacy Lingers

Znet Article, October, 18 2008 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Palin Drops the Puck

Znet Article, October, 13 2008 Dave Zirin
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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.

Znet Article Zirin: Sarah Palin's Extreme Sports

Znet Article, October, 07 2008 Dave Zirin
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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.

Znet Article Zirin: Why We Need A People’s History of Sports

Znet Article, September, 09 2008 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Gustav and the Dome

Znet Article, September, 02 2008 Dave Zirin
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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...

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