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Dave Zirin
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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The mother of Pat Tillman--football star, Army ranger and casualty of war--reflects on how the Pentagon has distorted the truth and the NFL has exploited the tragedy.
Woods's partnership with Chevron makes a mockery of his late father's hopes for him.
Some sportswriters just don't get it.
For fans, the pigskin meat market is mindless fun, but for young players, football is no fantasy.
The Warriors will miss this year's NBA playoffs, but they can still be winners by reaching out to at-risk youth in Oakland.
A ballpark for rich folks displaces the poor. But the Washington Post fails to utter a discouraging word.
Protest is as much a part of the Olympic tradition as lighting the
torch.
Roger Clemens's face-off with lawmakers moved the guardians of our democracy far beyond the absurd.
A Patriots Super Bowl win was written in the stars. But every once in a while, the double-digit underdog can win.
After days of dithering, the Golf Channel finally suspends a commentator
who joked about lynching Tiger Woods. What took them so long?
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