Overview
āZirin is Americaās best sportswriter.āāLee Ballinger, Rock and Rap Confidential
āZirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s.āāLester Rodney, N.Y. Daily Worker sports editor, 1936ā1958
āZirin has an amazing talent for covering the sports and politics beat. Ranging like a great shortstop, he scoops up everything! He profiles the courageous and inspiring athletes who are standing up for peace and civil liberties in this repressive age. A must read!āāMatthew Rothschild, The Progressive
āThis is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion.āāMike Marqusee, author, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
Here Edgeofsports.com sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society.
Zirin explores how Janet Jacksonās Super Bowl flash-time show exposed more than a breast, why the labor movement has everything to learn from sports unions and why a new generation of athletes is no longer content to āplay one game at a timeā and is starting to get political.
Whatās My Name, Fool! draws on original interviews with former heavyweight champ George Foreman, Olympian and black power saluter John Carlos, NBA basketball player and anti-death penalty activist Etan Thomas, antiwar womenās college hoopster Toni Smith, Olympic Project for Human Rights leader Lee Evans and many others.
Popular sportswriter and commentator Dave Zirin is editor of The Prince Georgeās Post (Maryland) and writes the weekly column āEdge of Sportsā (edgeofsports.com). He is a senior writer at basketball.com. Zirinās writing has also appeared in The Source, Common Dreams, College Sporting News, CounterPunch, Alternet, International Socialist Review, Black Sports Network, War Times, San Francisco Bay View and Z Magazine.
This book title, What's My Name, Fool? (Sports and Resistance in the United States), ISBN: 9781931859202, by Dave Zirin, published by Haymarket Books (July 1, 2005) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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