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Dave Zirin

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Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin

Sports Editor

Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Dave Zirin is the sports editor for The Nation magazine. Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN and Democracy Now! He also hosts his own weekly Sirius XM show, Edge of Sports Radio. His books include What's My Name Fool? (Haymarket Books), A People's History of Sports in the United States (the New Press), Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love (Scribner) and co-author of the forthcoming The John Carlos Story. You can find all his work at www.edgeofsports.com.

Articles

News and Features

The NBA point-guard phenom has sparked a national discussion about racism against Asian-Americans.
 

Pulaski Schools Superintendent Mel Lightner has denied that the tune played by the Pulaski High Schools "Red Raiders" was Woody Guthrie's "Union Maid."

International soccer lost a hero when Socrates, the masterful Brazilian midfielder who captained Brazil’s famed 1982 World Cup squad, died last weekend.

There is a reason the former Mets skipper hasn't worked a Major League dugout in a decade.

Make no mistake about it: the owners lost.

Here is the naked truth: we face the prospect of no pro football in 2011 because the union made a three-word demand that would not have cost owners a dime—open your books.

Dan Snyder needs a reminder about his team's attempts to resist integration.

In post–World Cup South Africa, the party's over: massive strikes and rapid erosion of the World Cup spirit speak to a serious political crisis facing scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma.

In "honor" of the ignominous end of the career of Lt. General Stanley McChrystal, at the hands of Rolling Stone magazine, let's take a moment to remember why Lt. Gen. McChrystal never deserved to be promoted lat year. He deserved to be indicted.

The richest man in Russia buys the New Jersey Nets—proving that the NBA is in dire financial straits.

Blogs

Numerous groups are protesting the militarization and corporatization of the 2012 Olympic Games.
The 2012 London Olympics: It's not a war zone—it just looks like one.
Mahmoud Sarsak, Palestinian national team soccer player, is dying on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. The sports world should say...
The death of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch is also the death of a living link to a city that no longer exists.
The family of NFL All-Pro Junior Seau made a deeply courageous decision to submit his brain for study after his suicide to see if...
Junior Seau is the NFL’s second suicide in less than two weeks.
May Day, we must remember, was a holiday written in blood.
The causes were many, but police brutality and economic insecurity were supercharged in Los Angeles after the 1984 Olympics.