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Air date:
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Dave Zirin on his latest book, "Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love."
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with writer Dave Zirin about his latest book, "Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love."
Named one of the UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World", Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for the Nation Magazine. He is their first sports writer in 150 years of existence.
Dave Zirin writes the weekly online sports column edgeofsports.com. He is also the host of Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. He has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert Lipsyte.
Dave Zirin is, in addition, a columnist for SLAM Magazine, the Progressive, and a regular op-ed writer for the Los Angeles Times. His books include "A People's History of Sports in the United States," part of Howard Zinn's People's History series for the New Press; "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports" (with a foreword by the immortal Chuck D.); and "What's My Name, Fool?" Sports and Resistance in the United States" (Haymarket Books).