What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States

Dave Zirin

eBook - 2005

"Zirin is America's best sportswriter."—Lee Ballinger, Rock and Rap Confidential"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, N.Y. Daily Worker sports editor, 1936–1958"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, The Progressive"This is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion."—Mike Marqusee, author, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali ...and the Spirit of the SixtiesHere 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... more