Archive

03/15/10 - Reclaiming a Legacy: The Death of Fatima Meer and the World Cup

When I attended the funeral services of a legend of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, I learned that the most political issue in the country is memory.

03/10/10 - The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse

On a normal week here in South Africa, it's the dispossessed and the self-possessed fighting for elbow room. But the 2010 World Cup, which starts in 90 days, has taken these contrasts and propelled them into conflict.

03/04/10 - How Sports Attacks Public Education

On Thursday, I was proud to take part in a student walkout at the University of Maryland in defense of public education. It was just one link in a National Day of Action that saw protests in more than 32 states across the country. I am not a student, and haven't been since those innocent days when Monica Lewinsky mattered, but I was asked to come speak at a post walkout teach-in about the way sports is used to attack public education. It might sound like a bizarre topic, but it's the world that students see every day.

03/01/10 - Note to ESPN’s Bill Simmons: Tiger Woods is not Muhammad Ali

02/26/10 - Sportsmanship: The Great Olympic Fraud

02/22/10 - Nodar Kumaritashvili: Never Forget

02/20/10 - Tiger Woods: When you are brand before man

02/17/10 - Fruits of the Backlash: The New All-White Basketball League

02/12/10 - Christopher Hitchens: Sporting Fool

02/11/10 - When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown

02/07/10 - Who Dat? Dat's the Super Bowl Champs!

02/03/10 - Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali

02/02/10 - Tim Tebow and CBS: United Against “Choice”

01/30/10 - An Idiot Among Us: Paul Shirley on Haiti

01/27/10 - The Vancouver Olympic Blues

01/25/10 - Silver Lining for Vikings Fans (Politically)

01/22/10 - NFL Owners Stiff-arm Fans/Union

01/18/10 - MLK wasn't an athlete, but he understood importance of sports

01/15/10 - "We are a Forgotten People": An Interview with Haitian NBA Vet Olden Polynice

01/12/10 - Mark McGwire's Pound of Flesh

01/11/10 - Sport for Sport's Sake

01/07/10 - Faculty Protest Texas Football Coach's Raise

01/05/10 - Al Sharpton Wants Gilbert Arenas Punished. Seriously.

01/04/10 - Bench the BCS

12/30/09 - Dennis Brutus 1924-2009: The Man Who Would Reclaim Sports

12/28/09 - "Every Story Had a Purpose": an appreciation of the late Lester Rodney

12/23/09 - More than a Sportswriter: Lester “Red” Rodney: 1911-2009

12/18/09 - A Different Scandal: Tiger Woods Named Athlete of the Decade

12/14/09 - Tiger Falls from Grace

12/09/09 - The People Speak: When Television Makes History

12/03/09 - Message to Obama: You Can't Have Muhammad Ali

11/30/09 - Tiger Woods Deserves Your Scrutiny

11/28/09 - Amy Goodman and Canada's Olympic Paranoia

11/24/09 - The NFL’s Concussion Conundrum

11/18/09 - Women Ski Jumpers and the Rule of Law

11/10/09 - A Sterling Shame

11/06/09 - DMC with DZ in STUDIO!!!

11/02/09 - The Coming Labor War in the NFL

10/29/09 - L.A. Stadium Story: No football team, No Problem

10/22/09 - LeBron James: The Man Who Would Dunk on Dubya

10/19/09 - 94 ‘Til Infinity : How SLAM helped change the basketball landscape forever

10/18/09 - Thanks to the Utne Reader for naming Dave Zirin one of the 2009 50 Visionaries who are Changing Your World

10/16/09 - Rush Limbaugh: Why the NFL Just Said No

10/15/09 - Response to Rush Limbaugh's Rage

10/09/09 - Why NFL Owners Must Flush Rush

10/06/09 - “Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights

10/05/09 - Can the NFL Tackle Homophobia?

10/02/09 - Victory/Agony: Chicago Loses the Olympics

09/29/09 - Obama's Olympic Error UPDATED

09/18/09 - Sports and the Uncivil Society

09/15/09 - Double Standard for Serena Williams

09/14/09 - Stop the Savage Sex Scare in Sports

09/09/09 - Exclusive: Kermit Washington's Advice to LeGarrette Blount

09/08/09 - LeGarrette Blount and the Politics of the Punch

08/31/09 - President Obama: Jack Johnson Punched Back

08/26/09 - Caster Semenya Aint 8 Feet Tall

08/21/09 - Caster Semenya and the Idiocy of Sex Testing

08/18/09 - The End of Iverson?

08/14/09 - McNabb, Eagles Give Vick Second Chance. Will Philly Fans?

08/12/09 - Boxing's Month From Hell

08/05/09 - The Paulsons' Edifice Complex

07/29/09 - The Reality of Vick’s Return

07/25/09 - The Power of Buehrle’s Perfection

07/21/09 - Macalester Today: Can’t Find My Way Home

07/16/09 - "Canary in the Mine Shaft"

07/06/09 - Sexism on Centre Court

07/01/09 - Who Will Break the Glass Closet... and John Amaechi's Response

06/26/09 - Your Stadium or Your Life

06/18/09 - When Nuance Dies: Sammy Sosa and Phony Outrage

06/17/09 - Iran: It Aint a Soccer Riot

06/11/09 - Vick, Clarett, and the Right of Return

06/08/09 - Let’s Go Lakers: Wanting a Loss for DeVos

06/01/09 - Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge

05/26/09 - Life Imitates Sports: Kobe/Cheney vs. Melo/Obama

05/22/09 - Not So Easy: The Super Bowl Returns to New Orleans

05/14/09 - Tillman Family is McChrystal-Clear

05/12/09 - Home Runs and Hypocrisy: The Shaming of Manny Ramirez

05/04/09 - The Kentucky Derby: Seabiscuit Meets Syriana

04/30/09 - Jeremy Tyler, Euro-Pro

04/22/09 - A Pinstriped Patriot Act

04/16/09 - Geno and Gender: Huskies and the Perils of Perfection

04/07/09 - The Meaning of Michigan State

03/30/09 - “Like We Were Dogs”: The Story of Ryan Moats