Showing posts with label Dave Zirin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dave Zirin. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2020

"On Louisville, Breonna Taylor, and Muhammad Ali."

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Photo credit: The Nation . From one of the few sportswriters capable of mattering, talking straight.   On Louisville, Breonna Taylor, and Mu...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

80 years after Lou Gehrig's famous goodbye, Dave Zirin examines baseball's declining popularity.

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Photo credit. It's been 80 years since Lou Gehrig made his famous closing remarks, and the contemporary game seems so far removed f...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (2019).

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Dave Zirin, one of a select group of sportswriters who really matter, introduces a speech by Frederick Douglass , originally delivered in...
Saturday, January 05, 2019

NFL: "A sport where player careers last only three and a half years is built on disposable black bodies, indifference to brain damage, and a country-club dismissal of black brain power."

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Ladies and gentlemen, just about the only sports writer who genuinely matters, precisely because he doesn't refrain from contextualiz...
Sunday, May 06, 2018

The revival of the black athletic struggle, and a collision with our post-9/11 world.

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Just about everyone in New Albany believes Romeo Langford will be a professional basketball player following his tenure at Indiana Univer...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Dave Zirin toughs it out: "The Progressive Case for the New England Patriots (Seriously)."

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Dave Zirin once again proves he's the only sportswriter who genuinely matters, this time by conquering a task many thought impossible...
Friday, January 05, 2018

NFL Follies: "Billion dollar teams choosing to fail rather than sign Kaepernick is a scandal for reasons beyond wins and losses."

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I'm told that the national concussion league's playoffs begin this weekend, moving from wild cards and betting lines toward the in...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Zirin: "Sports Tax Scams Laid the Groundwork for Amazon Bidding Madness."

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Try to imagine another major American sports writer saying this: Our love of sports laid the groundwork for the madness of "lotte...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

"The NCAA is a zombie system, feeding on the flesh of the people they are supposed to be educating."

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A book worth reading, but you won't, will you? It's another of my periodic reminders that Dave Zirin is among the select few sp...
Friday, December 23, 2016

"A rank hypocrite and a user of teenagers. In other words, a typical, big-time, top-tier NCAA football coach."

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A book worth reading, but you won't, will you? It's another of my periodic reminders that Dave Zirin is among the select few sp...
Monday, July 04, 2016

Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (2016)

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Dave Zirin, one of a select group of sportswriters who really matter, introduces a speech by Frederick Douglass , originally delivered in...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

The South does it again -- wait, Indiana did it first. No matter: "The NBA Needs to Move the 2017 All-Star Game From Charlotte."

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C'mon -- you know Grooms would have voted in favor if he lived in North Carolina. The real world, from the only sportswriter who ma...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Zirin on "Louisville Basketball and the NCAA’s Political Economy of Misogyny."

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Former University of Michigan and NBA star Jalen Rose, as quoted in the Detroit Free Press  on the topic of college athletic recruitment: ...
Monday, October 05, 2015

Transformational vs transactional, and why Gregg Popovich invited John Carlos to speak but Mayor Gahan never would.

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Dave Zirin is one of the few sports writers who matters, and this brief essay pertains to John Carlos' recent visit with the Spurs. Bu...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Judge cleverly deploys dictionary to refute the "most racist name in football."

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We've visited this story at least once before. The "R" word: Dave Zirin's open letter to Dan Snyder. Small victories, ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Zirin: "The People of Oakland Need to Occupy Their Sports Teams."

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In an ideal world, sports would be about the fun and personal challenge of playing sports. Humans everywhere have long since elevated sports...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Zirin: "Gentrification Is the Real Scandal Surrounding Jackie Robinson West."

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In wintertime, daily life in the Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwardness often revolves around sports. Last week, it was...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Basketball's Steve Nash: "A voice of resistance when it mattered most."

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As one of the few sportswriters who truly matter, Dave Zirin's essays always are a must read for me. That's because the world of spo...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

James returns home, and Zirin called the shot.

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(Update: Zirin follows up) As I constantly remind you, Dave Zirin is one of the few sportswriters in America worth reading on a daily basi...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Heavy reading: A golf club, an outing, a suicide and Frank Sinatra.

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For the hundredth time, thanks to Dave Zirin of The Nation for sportswriting that actually matters, on a daily basis. Zirin places sports i...