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| ⚫ | '''Dave Zirin''' |
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| ==Career== | |||
| ⚫ | '''Dave Zirin''' commentates on varied sports-related matters from a progressive point-of-view. Zirin champions athletes and issues which might be overlooked by corporate sports media and addresses the tendency of the media to objectify and employ athletes as pawns in money-making efforts. He is both a columnist for '']'' and a regular contributor at '']''. He also writes a weekly column (which is also distributed through his website) for the '']'', where he is sports editor. His first book, ''What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States'' (]) has entered its second printing. | ||
| Zirin has taken his blend of sports and politics to many television programs including ]’s '']'' where he discussed steroid use in ] with ] and ]; ]’s '']'', and the ] Morning News in ]. He is also a weekly commentator for Canadian sports channel ]. | Zirin has taken his blend of sports and politics to many television programs including ]’s '']'' where he discussed steroid use in ] with ] and ]; ]’s '']'', and the ] Morning News in ]. He is also a weekly commentator for Canadian sports channel ]. | ||
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| Zirin’s writing has been printed by ], ], ], ], Latinosports.com, ], The College Sporting News, basketball.com, ], The Black Sports Network, '']'', ''Dodgers Dugout'', ], ], '']'', War-Times, and The Afro-American. | Zirin’s writing has been printed by ], ], ], ], Latinosports.com, ], The College Sporting News, basketball.com, ], The Black Sports Network, '']'', ''Dodgers Dugout'', ], ], '']'', War-Times, and The Afro-American. | ||
| ==Barry Bonds Steroids Controversy== | |||
| Zirin maintains the opinion that the aggressive hatred toward the alleged use of ] by ] is partially due to racism. | |||
| ==References and notes== | ==References and notes== | ||
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Career
Dave Zirin commentates on varied sports-related matters from a progressive point-of-view. Zirin champions athletes and issues which might be overlooked by corporate sports media and addresses the tendency of the media to objectify and employ athletes as pawns in money-making efforts. He is both a columnist for SLAM Magazine and a regular contributor at The Nation. He also writes a weekly column (which is also distributed through his website) for the Prince George's Post, where he is sports editor. His first book, What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books) has entered its second printing.
Zirin has taken his blend of sports and politics to many television programs including CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutch where he discussed steroid use in baseball with John Rocker and José Canseco; C-SPAN’s Book TV, and the WNBC Morning News in New York City. He is also a weekly commentator for Canadian sports channel The Score.
He has also been on numerous radio programs including Air America Radio's On the Real with Chuck D and Gia’na Garel, The Laura Flanders Show, Radio Nation, ESPN Radio, Stars and Stripes Radio, WOL’s The Joe Madison Show, Pacifica Radio’s Hard Knock Radio and Democracy Now, among others. He is also the Thursday morning sports host on WBAI’s “Wake Up Call with Deepa Fernandes”.
Zirin is working on “A People’s History of Sports,” a sports-related volume in the manner of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States series for The New Press. He is also writing his follow up to “What’s My Name, Fool?” for Haymarket Books, and hard at work on “The Muhammad Ali Handbook” for MQ Publications. Zirin is also the published children’s book author of “My Name is Erica Montoya de la Cruz” (RC Owen). In addition, he is working on a sports documentary with Barbara Kopple’s Cabin Creek films on sports and social movements in the United States.
Zirin’s writing has been printed by The Los Angeles Times, CBSNEWS.com, Pittsburgh Courier, The Source, Latinosports.com, Common Dreams, The College Sporting News, basketball.com, Alternet, The Black Sports Network, Counterpunch, Dodgers Dugout, San Francisco Bay View, Z net, International Socialist Review, War-Times, and The Afro-American.
Barry Bonds Steroids Controversy
Zirin maintains the opinion that the aggressive hatred toward the alleged use of steroids by Barry Bonds is partially due to racism.