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Dave Zirin - On Bonds, Tillman and the Poltics of Sports

3,160 views · Published 16 August 2007 · 6:31 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: FORA.tv · 2007 · News & Politics

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1285

Author and commentator Dave Zirin gives his thoughts on sports talk radio, and examines the frequently rocky relationship between sports and politics.

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Dave Zirin discusses "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports."

Dave Zirin is at the crossroads of a sports culture that celebrates bling and the multi-million-dollar endorsements, and a political culture loathe to recognize, let alone help, the millions of Americans battling poverty and oppression.

This eagerly anticipated follow-up to Zirin's "What's My Name Fool?" grapples with this cultural contradiction. - Cody's Books

Dave Zirin is the author of "What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States." He is a sports commentator for Air America and XM Radio's 'On the Real' with Chuck D and Gia'na Garel.

Zirin's writing has appeared in THE SOURCE, Common Dreams, The College Sporting News, basketball.com, alternet, The Black Sports Network, Counterpunch, Dodgers Dugout, sports-central.org, The San Fransisco Bay View, Z-Net, The International Socialist Review, War-Times, Z-Magazine and The Afro-American.

Dave Zirin - On Bonds, Tillman and the Poltics of Sports

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