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Whats My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States

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"Zirin is Americas best sportswriter."-Lee Ballinger, "Rock and Rap Confidential" "Zirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s."-Lester Rodney, "N.Y. Daily Worker" sports editor, 19361958 "Zirin 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!"-Matthew Rothschild, "The Progressive" "This is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion."-Mike 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 Jacksons 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 "play one game at a time" and is starting to get political. "Whats 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 womens 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 Georges Post" (Maryland) and writes the weekly column "Edge of Sports" ("edgeofsports.com"). He is a senior writer at"basketball.com," Zirins writing has also appeared in "The Source,

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