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 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.
What's 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 women's 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
George's Post (Maryland) and writes the weekly column "Edge of Sports"
(edgeofsports.com). He is a senior writer at basketball.com. Zirin's
writing has also appeared in The Source, Common Dreams, College
Sporting News, CounterPunch, Alternet, International Socialist Review,
Black Sports Network, War Times, San Francisco Bay View, and Z
Magazine.