Dave Zirin's Books
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Bad SportsA thought-provoking look at the big business and immoral practices behind professional sports by a critically-acclaimed young sportswriter.Read More
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Huffington Post UK, April 19, 2013
...part that's because, or maybe why, we don't boast a critical sportswriter remotely like America's Dave Zirin. His latest book Game Over makes the argument for sport as politics in an engaging and thought-provoking style that has the ability to connect...
WRTI 90.1 FM, April 1, 2013
...sports figures started making more in endorsement deals, their politics sometimes took a backseat to their pocketbooks. Sportswriter Dave Zirin's new book is about the uneasy confluence of sports and politics over the years. All Things Considered by NPR...
Individual.com, March 28, 2013
...major events included "Sports Night" at the Paramount Theater -- with Frank Deford, John Grisham, Jane Leavy and Dave Zirin -- and "American Icons" at the Paramount Theater with civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and 1968 Olympian John...
Individual.com, March 20, 2013
...7 p.m. "Sport's Night" at the Paramount Theater, with Frank Deford, John Grisham, Jane Leavy and Dave Zirin, and Saturday's 8 p.m. "American Icons" at the Paramount Theater with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and 1968 Olympian John Carlos, have tickets...
Bloomberg, March 6, 2013
...to lose rather than to win. Knight’s 902 college-basketball wins suggest he may be on to something. Dave Zirin’s “Game Over” (New Press, $18.95) traces the influence of athletes in the political arena, including such figures as Bill Russell...
The Nation, February 6, 2013
...hated as well as so dangerous. It wasnt his quotes. It was, as Coach Harbaugh said, his courage. Dave Zirin, the author of the Muhammad Ali Handbook, just released Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. Watch...
The Nation, January 31, 2013
...Shameless about being broke, down and out. And we feature one of America's finest sports writers in Dave Zirin and boast the inimitable JoAnn Wypijewski as our sex columnist. Its a mix thats good for journalism and good for the public debate. But while...
Progressive Magazine, January 18, 2013
...pages, including Wendell Berry, Edwidge Danticat, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, Eduardo Galeano, Luis Rodriguez, Terry Tempest Williams, and Dave Zirin. The magazine also provides comic relief with columns by humorists Kate Clinton and Will Durst...
Democracy Now!, January 18, 2013
...a top football player in her memory. While Notre Dame has launched a probe into the hoax, sportswriter Dave Zirin criticizes the school’s slow response to an alleged sexual assault committed by a football player in 2010. The team opened a probe only...
Democracy Now!, January 18, 2013
...cyclists I’ve talked to talked about drug use as if it’s survival drugs," says sportswriter Dave Zirin. "Now, all that being said, the answer is not, of course, to dope your body as an answer to that. The answer is a reformation of the sport, trying...
KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley, January 18, 2013
...Military Intervention": Roots of Mali, Algeria Crisis Tied to Libya War; "The Tony Soprano of the Cycling World": Dave Zirin on Lance Armstrong’s Doping Confession; Notre Dame Football Faulted For Covering Up Manti Te’o Hoax While Refusing to Probe...
RocketNews, January 18, 2013
...I don’t want to accuse anyone else. I’m here to acknowledge my mistakes.” US sports writer Dave Zirin said the cycling world will likely be unsatisfied with Armstrong’s admission , which stopped short of addressing how he facilitated the...
City Watch, January 18, 2013
...GUEST WORDS - For a decade now, Dave Zirin has been working the fertile media ground between sports and progressive politics. That toil has produced sheaves of articles at The Nation and elsewhere, a weekly program on SiriusXM...
The Atlantic Wire, January 18, 2013
...2013 Lance is going to piss USADA off with these answers. Lifetime ban ain't going nowhere. — Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) January 18, 2013 The sociopath section: Armstrong admitted to viewing his own behavior through the lens of a sociopath....
