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Znet Article Zirin: The 2008 Olympics: Subterranean Rot

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Dave Zirin
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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...

Znet Article Zirin: Remembering Gene Upshaw

Znet Article, August, 23 2008 Dave Zirin
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The last thirty years haven't exactly been kind to the labor movement. It's been a story of slow death, with decades of falling union numbers, stagnant wages and disappearing pensions--all signs pointing toward total oblivion. It's been the era as...

Znet Article Zirin: Women’s Gymnastics: The Big Mac of the Beijing Games

Znet Article, August, 16 2008 Dave Zirin
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The Olympics and I have what you could call a conflicted relationship. There’s the beauty of the games, the enjoyment of sports that don’t normally make it onto the sports landscape. Then there’s that ugly pervasive undercurrent that can leave you...

Znet Article Zirin: China’s Olympic Trials

Znet Article, August, 04 2008 Dave Zirin
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"Go Red for China!" was the slogan unveiled on the Chinese mainland by Pepsi-Cola, whose ubiquitous blue can will, "for a limited time," be red. Pepsi is just one of many companies advertising at the Olympics, at a cost of up to $6 billion, in an ...

Znet Article Zirin: Why He Fears the Fist: A Response to Jonah Goldberg

Znet Article, August, 01 2008 Dave Zirin
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Jonah Goldberg’s regular column in the LA Times is usually an awkward grab bag of right wing talking points backed by knowledge of history that would shame a poodle, although a poodle would never be so pompous. Goldberg stepped on to my beat this...

Znet Article Zirin: When COINTELPRO comes calling

Znet Article, July, 21 2008 Dave Zirin
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"Homeland Security" picked on the wrong group of activists, because we will not be silenced...

Znet Article Zirin: "Well, There You Go": Imus the Bigot Is Back

Znet Article, June, 27 2008 Dave Zirin
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Is Don Imus irredeemably stupid or just a run-of-the-mill racist? Perhaps the answer is both. On Monday, Imus's sports sidekick, Warner Wolf, was going over the incredibly long arrest history of football star Adam "Pacman" Jones and Imus just coul...

Znet Article Zirin: The Over Exposure of Danica Patrick

Znet Article, June, 17 2008 Dave Zirin
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It has been quite a year for Danica Patrick. She became the first woman to win an Indy Car race, coming in first at the Indy Japan 300 on April 20. She also became the first race care driver to pose for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

Znet Article Zirin: Can Soccer Stop the Violence?

Znet Article, June, 10 2008 Dave Zirin
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The Boston Celtics have adopted the South African word ubuntu as a team slogan this season. It means unity, interconnectedness and literally, "we are who we are through others." There is a terrible irony that ubuntu is currently being embraced in ...

Znet Article Zirin: 'Like He Died Twice': Mary Tillman's Lonesome Road

Znet Article, June, 02 2008 Dave Zirin
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Mary Tillman and her very private family are determined to go through whatever walls are in front of them, in a lonely quest for the truth...

Znet Article Zirin: There’s No Place Like Home: Refocusing Olympic Protest

Znet Article, May, 05 2008 Dave Zirin
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Canadian Olympic Committee president Dick Pound made crystal clear to the Canadian Olympians, "If it is so tough for you that you can't bear not to say anything, then stay at home." USA basketball and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said, "None of thes...

Znet Article Zirin: Indicted! Barry Bonds Busted by a Broken System

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Dave Zirin
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Barry Lamar Bonds faces thirty years in prison because the Department of Justice is a corroded husk of political decay. The baseball Home Run King has now been officially indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges and it only took thre...

Znet Article Zirin: Why is Imus back in the game?

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Dave Zirin
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After a nine-month vacation, radio shock jock Don Imus will be back on the air in December. Perhaps you thought that Imus' comments calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" would have rendered him untouchable -- th...

Znet Article Zirin: And Still We Weep: The Death of Sean Taylor

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Dave Zirin
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Young and old, in burgundy and gold, they have gathered in Redskin Park today, huddled around a parking spot adorned with the number 21. Players are trickling in. No one is saying a word because no one has to. All throughout Washington, D.C. there...

Znet Article Zirin: Common Bond for Uncommon Men: Roberto Clemente and Martin Luther King

Znet Article, April, 08 2008 Dave Zirin
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As we remember the 40th anniversary of that dark day of April 4th 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, it's worth recalling the reaction by Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Roberto Clemente.

Znet Article Zirin: Crackdown: China's Brutal Olympic Echo

Znet Article, March, 24 2008 Dave Zirin
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Even after decades of occupation, the ruthlessness of the crackdown has shocked much of the world...

Znet Article Zirin: Can't Knock the Hassle: Chavez Challenges Baseball

Znet Article, February, 26 2008 Dave Zirin
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When Hugo Chávez struck out in his December referendum aimed at overhauling the Venezuelan political system, a small group of overfed men raised their glasses in triumph: the assorted owners of Major League Baseball.

Znet Article Zirin: When Paint is Not Enough

Znet Article, February, 20 2008 Dave Zirin
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Last weekend the NBA All-Star Game came to New Orleans. If you were one of the thousands to make the trip to the Big Easy and hang out on Bourbon Street, you no doubt saw one kind of NOLA. Like the Green Zone in Iraq, offering salsa lessons and sa...

Znet Article Zirin: Behind the Clemens, Congress, Claptrap

Znet Article, February, 17 2008 Dave Zirin
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Representative Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, died this week at the age of 80. We remember Lantos for many things - not all of them admirable - but we remember him today as the man who gazed at the very first of these idiotic steroid hearings...

Znet Article Zirin: Instep Intifada: Soccer Star Stands for Gaza

Znet Article, February, 06 2008 Dave Zirin
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In a world where mainstream media dumb down news reportage with inane sports metaphors, sometimes it takes sports to remind us of the gravity of the actual news. While the press acts like extras on Gossip Girl as they assess the latest machination...

Znet Article Zirin: We Might Be Giants

Znet Article, February, 04 2008 Dave Zirin
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Super Bowl XLII was supposed to be a coronation of the New England Patriots...

Znet Article Zirin: The Super Bowl: Who Stole the Soul?

Znet Article, February, 02 2008 Dave Zirin
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Apparently it’s not killer bees, sleeper cells, or flesh eating viruses we are supposed to fear this week. According to the mainstream media, it’s the Super Bowl that’s hazardous to our health. The LA Times ran an article this week titled, "Sports...

Znet Article Zirin: Firestone's Corporate Spin

Znet Article, January, 29 2008 Dave Zirin
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A Responce to Bridgestone-Firestone President Dan Adomitis...

Znet Article Zirin: Male Fraud: What we are Missing at Rutgers

Znet Article, January, 27 2008 Dave Zirin
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Even casual sports fans should be paying attention to the Scarlet Knights...

Znet Article Zirin: Super Bowl Slavery

Znet Article, January, 22 2008 Dave Zirin
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The Super Bowl is perhaps the last cultural event that unites a majority of Americans. Whether the game is a thriller or a snooze, Super Bowl Sunday is a day to gather with friends, rate the commercials, assess the halftime show and wear pants wit...

Znet Article Zirin: Dennis Brutus Smacks Down Hall of Fame

Znet Article, January, 14 2008 Dave Zirin
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On Dec. 5, amid lavish ceremony, famed anti-apartheid activist and 83-year-old poet Dennis Brutus publicly turned down induction to the South African Sports Hall of Fame. The 1,000 people in attendance at Johannesburg’s Emperor’s Palace were surpr...

Znet Article Zirin: To Lynch a Tiger?!

Znet Article, January, 12 2008 Dave Zirin
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After five days of dithering, the Golf Channel has finally suspended commentator Kelly Tilghman for two weeks for her on-air comment January 4, suggesting young players looking to break into the game should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley." At ...

Znet Article Zirin: Taking Back Sports in '08

Znet Article, January, 02 2008 Dave Zirin
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Where do you even begin? Two-thousand-seven was the year we saw one of the most famous football players in the country go to prison, the most accomplished hitter of all-time get indicted on perjury charges, the most dominant pitcher since World Wa...

Znet Article Zirin: The Mitchell Report: Absolving the Owners

Znet Article, December, 15 2007 Dave Zirin
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Ever had someone spit in your face and tell you it's raining? That's how it felt watching former Sen. George Mitchell's press conference on steroid use in Major League Baseball. The former Senate Majority Leader unleashed his "investigative findin...

Znet Article Zirin: The Sad Resurrection of Chief Illiniwek

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Dave Zirin
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Last weekend an unfortunate figure returned to the University of Illinois, and it wasn't Jeff George. Chief Illiniwek, the former school mascot, was back to adorn floats and assorted regalia at Homecoming to the cheers of some and the bitter horro...

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