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Zirin: Out of the Closet and Onto the Court
Znet Article, February, 14 2007
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Zirin: Muhammad Ali: The Brand and the Man
Znet Article, January, 25 2007
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Some people though...
Zirin: "Somehow Profiting From Tragedy and Horror is Tolerated"
Znet Article, October, 22 2006
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When Pat Tillman, former NFL player and Army Ranger, died in Afghanistan in 2004, it unleashed a drama that moved from tragedy to obscenity to mystery. First there was Pat's death. Because Tillman wasn't the kind of anonymous fallen soldier the ...
Zirin: Brother of the Fist: The Passing of Peter Norman
Znet Article, October, 15 2006
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Almost four decades later, the image can still make hairs rise on unsuspecting necks. It's 1968, and 200 meter gold medalist Tommie Smith stands next to bronze winner John Carlos, their raised black gloved fists smashing the sky on the medal stand...
Zirin: Big Easy Blues: The Saints and the Superdome
Znet Article, October, 01 2006
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New Orleans is a city that suffers in silence. These days, it feels like a city being strangled in slow motion, a city whose current condition makes a lie of every political platitude preached over the past year. Yet ESPN spent four hours Monday t...
Zirin: Southpaw
Znet Article, September, 25 2006
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Stephon Marbury, the wildly talented and widely criticized point guard for the New York Knicks, usually carries a Q rating commensurate with Kim Jong Il. Making max dollars and being the face of the NBA's most dysfunctional franchise will do that....
Zirin: Cops vs. Jocks: The Shooting of Steve Foley
Znet Article, September, 13 2006
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"This one stinks like a beached whale." That's how Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Bill Conlin described the police shooting of San Diego Chargers star linebacker Steve Foley. Foley was shot at 3:30 A.M. Saturday night in front of his hom...
Zirin: Why Today I Wear My Zidane Jersey
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
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Imagine Michael Jordan in his last game, with the score tied in overtime, knocking out his defender with a punch to the throat. Imagine Derek Jeter in game seven of the World Series, at bat with the bases loaded, thrashing the opposing team's c...
Zirin: French Soccer and the Future of Europe
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
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The story of the 2006 World Cup has been the resurrection of France. After a lackluster performance in its first two games, the French team shocked the football watching world - otherwise known as "the world" - by upsetting Spain and then dethroni...
Zirin: The 2006 World Cup: Will Racism Come Home to Roost?
Znet Article, June, 12 2006
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The most watched tournament in the universe, the World Cup, opens today amid fears that an open and violent racism could upstage the games, humiliate its German hosts, and provide an international platform for Neo- Nazi swill. The rising number of...
Zirin: Edge of Sports
Znet Article, March, 26 2006
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This Sunday at 4pm, I am proud to be speaking at an event in San Francisco called a "Civil Rights Slam for Justice," sponsored by among others the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. The slam will be at the Malcolm X school at 350 Harbor Street. In...
Zirin: Stained Uniforms
Znet Article, March, 17 2006
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"WILL Major League Baseball be more resistant to change than apartheid South Africa?" That's the question posed by Dennis Brutus, a former leading fighter against apartheid who is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Allia...
Zirin: Burying Barry: Bonds and The Chain of Command
Znet Article, March, 13 2006
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"If he did it, hang him!" This is what ESPN radio host John Seibel (filling in on the Dan Patrick show) said about Barry Bonds. Is Seibel oblivious that some may take offense to the image of a controversial Black athlete being lynched, or is this ...
Zirin: Super Hypocrisy
Znet Article, February, 04 2006
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"A celebration of concentrated wealth." That's what Washington Post sportswriter Tony Kornheiser called the National Football League's two-week long pre-Super Bowl party binge. Every Super Bowl Sunday, corporate executives and politicians exchange...
Zirin: Crossroads: Race and Coaching in the NFL
Znet Article, January, 09 2006
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Anyone searching for job security shouldn't look for a career in NFL coaching. A full one-quarter of coaches have been canned including Oakland's Norv Turner, New Orleans' Jim Haslett, and a myriad of Mikes: Mike Sherman of Green Bay, Mike Tice fr...
Zirin: Sneering at Redemption
Znet Article, December, 14 2005
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In the end, we can only assume the decision wasn't so "agonizing" after all. Last night Stan Tookie Williams was legally lynched by the state of California, at the behest of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who denied Williams' appeal for clemency. ...
Zirin: The Champ Meets the Chump: Bush and Ali
Znet Article, November, 20 2005
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The presidency of George W. Bush is collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence. The polls speak for themselves--only 35 percent of us approve of his job performance. Fifty-six percent--including one in four Republicans--say the war in Ira...
Zirin: Barry Bonds Laughs Last
Znet Article, October, 10 2005
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"I think we have other issues in this country to worry about that are a lot more serious. Talk about the athletes that are helping Katrina victims....You know what? There are still other issues that are more important (than steroid use in baseball...
Zirin: Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968
Znet Article, September, 28 2005
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1968. There was never a year when the worlds of sports and politics collided so breathlessly, without mercy or respite. It was the year Muhammad Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title for resisting the draft, spoke on 200 college campuses and aske...
Zirin: Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington
Znet Article, September, 13 2005
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Folks - this is a review of badass British anti-war MP George Galloway's new book 'Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington.' Galloway is about to embark on a tour of the United States to build momentum for the September 24th anti-war demos in Washington D...
Zirin: The Superdome: Monument to a Rotten System
Znet Article, September, 04 2005
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There is nothing 'unnatural' about the disaster of New Orleans. When politicians smirk at global warming, when developers look at our wetlands and dream of mini malls, when billions are flushed in the name of war and tax-cuts, when issues of pover...
Zirin: Fade To Black
Znet Article, September, 01 2005
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LA Dodgers Outfielder, and anger management class alumnus, Milton Bradley has been called everything from "perennially enflamed" to "certifiably insane." But his voice was as calm as the Dead Sea when he addressed reporters last week. Bradley soun...
Zirin: Major League Bigorty
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
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First Essay:Si Se Puede: Felipe Alou Stands Up to Bigotry In the current climate of anti-immigrant, Latino- bashing, border patroling, right-wing chic, let this message ring across the land: don't mess with Felipe Alou. Don't mess with the 70 ye...
Zirin: Live Strong or Live Wrong?
Znet Article, July, 27 2005
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To all the haters that don't think cycling is a sport, and the Tour De France ranks just below watching an apple turn brown, let's be clear: Lance Armstrong has earned the love. The cancer-surviving cyclist ended his career with a record seventh s...
Zirin: What's My Name Fool?"
Znet Article, July, 19 2005
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, "What's My Name Fool?", is about? What's My Name Fool? sports and resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books) is an effort to reveal the hidden history of radical politics in US pro sports...
Zirin: Edge of Sports
Znet Article, July, 17 2005
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In High School, I was a 5' 10" inch center for the fearsome Friends Seminary Quakers in New York City. It wasn't pretty, but I lived for it and didn't care if the opposing center could spit on my head. I just loved sports. My walls were shrines to...
Zirin: Pining for the Pistons
Znet Article, July, 04 2005
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[Note: This column is 200 words shorter than usual because Billy Hunter lost 25% of it in the NBA's new Collective Bargaining Agreement.] The world be an incrementally better place if the Detroit Pistons had won the NBA championship last week. I ...
Zirin: Crass Slipper Fits 'Cinderella Man'
Znet Article, June, 23 2005
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"When our country was on it's knees, he brought America to his feet." So is the tagline for Ron Howard's Depression Era boxing film Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe. Cinderella Man, the story of 1930's heavyweight champion James J. Braddock, ...
Zirin: Killing Their Own Poster Boy
Znet Article, May, 29 2005
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To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game. - Bob Dylan When former Arizona Cardinals football player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan, sonorous bugl...
