What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
| Author/creator | Zirin, Dave Author |
| Other author | D., Chuck Foreword by |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : Haymarket Books Minneapolis : Consortium Book Sales & Distribution [Distributor] |
| Description | 300 p. ill 07.900 x 05.300 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation <div><p>“Zirin is America’s best sportswriter.”—Lee Ballinger,<i>Rock and Rap Confidential</i></p><p>“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,<i>N.Y. Daily Worker</i>sports editor, 1936–1958</p><p>“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,<i>The Progressive</i></p><p>“This is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion.”—Mike Marqusee, author,<i>Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties</i></p><p>Here<i>Edgeofsports.com</i>sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society.</p><p>Zirin explores how Janet Jackson’s 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.</p><p><i>What’s My Name, Fool!</i>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 women’s college hoopster Toni Smith, Olympic Project for Human Rights leader Lee Evans and many others.</p><p>Popular sportswriter and commentator<b>Dave Zirin</b>is editor of<i>The Prince George’s Post</i>(Maryland) and writes the weekly column “Edge of Sports” (<i>edgeofsports.com</i>). He is a senior writer at<i>basketball.com</i>. Zirin’s writing has also appeared in<i>The Source</i>,<i>Common Dreams</i>,<i>College Sporting News</i>,<i>CounterPunch</i>,<i>Alternet</i>,<i>International Socialist Review</i>,<i>Black Sports Network</i>,<i>War Times</i>,<i>San Francisco Bay View</i>and<i>Z Magazine</i>.</p></div> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005010553 |
| ISBN | 9781931859202 |
| ISBN | 1931859205 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781931859202 |
| Stock number | 00720099 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |