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Dave Zirin

Sports Editor

Dave Zirin, The Nation’s sports correspondent, is the author, most recently, of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” 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 other 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, with John Wesley Carlos, The John Carlos Story. You can find all his work at www.edgeofsports.com.

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What's My Name, Fool? (Sports)

In The Godfather, Part II, dying mob boss Hyman Roth wheezes the
obscene truth to young Don Michael Corleone.

Dave Zirin

Blogs

NFL Player Junior Seau Takes His Own Life
Junior Seau is the NFL’s second suicide in less than two weeks.
Dave Zirin
Memory and the May Day Martyrs
May Day, we must remember, was a holiday written in blood.
Dave Zirin
Want to Understand the 1992 LA Riots? Start with the 1984 LA Olympics
The causes were many, but police brutality and economic insecurity were supercharged in Los Angeles after the 1984 Olympics.
Dave Zirin
Washington Capitals Win Over Boston Bruins Spurs Spasm of Racism
A black hockey player scores a winning goal against a Tea Partying goalie, and racists couldn’t help themselves.
Dave Zirin
Metta World Peace—Alias Ron Artest—Did Bad but Deserves Better
An ugly elbow has shown NBA player Metta World Peace that his playing future is in doubt, despite past good works.
Dave Zirin
Are We Brave Enough to Say Goodbye to Pat Summitt?
Pat Summitt steps down as head hoops coach at the University of Tennessee. The void she leaves is immeasurable.
Dave Zirin
25 Years Since Al Campanis Shocked Baseball: What's Changed and What Hasn't
The decline of African-American involvement in baseball speaks more to twenty-first-century problems than Campanis-era racism does.
Dave Zirin
Ozzie Guillen, Free Speech and the Case of Loretta Capeheart
Attacks on free speech, no matter who is affected, have widespread implications.
Dave Zirin
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