Named one of UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World," Dave Zirin is a columnist for The Progressive magazine. He also writes about the politics of sports for the Nation Magazine. He is author of the acclaimed Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down (The New Press) which Christine Brennan of USA Today called "the perfect book for our time in sports." Sports Illustrated called the book "provocative," writing, "It will make you think about what we're really seeing when we watch the games we love."
February is Black History Month; 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of 1968, a sacred year for activist athletes. Tyus was a star on the Olympic world stage, a time when women weren’t supposed to be athletes, and black people were treated second class.more
The belief was that with Colin Kaepernick flagrantly blackballed by the league for his political views, other players would get the message to just “shut up and play.” The truth has turned out to be far different.more
Berkman, crusader against “tolerance,” is a right-wing evangelical Christian. What’s gob smacking, is that the St. Louis Cardinals organization is giving him a platform to spew his rhetoric on its “Christian Day."more
The beloved, historic, iconic Oakland Raiders franchise will be moving to Las Vegas, the third National Football League team in the last sixteen months to announce plans to abandon a city for greener, publicly funded pastures.more
Where are the calls for equal pay, equal respect, and, most pointedly, equal coverage emanating from the world of women’s athletics? The answer is complicated.more
In mid-February, eleven NFL players were expected to be a part of a delegation to Israel. Only five showed up. Why this happened is worth understanding.more
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Colin Kaepernick changed both the sports world and the real world in August when he refused to stand for the national anthem and said, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black p...more
