[Peace-discuss] Dave Zirin - 1p Sun July 24 on WILL-AM

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Dave Zirin is one of my favorites... especially impressive, as I'm not much of a sports fan. Don't know who Dave Zirin is as yet?? He's not just yr articulate sportscaster jock -- tune in and find out for yrself!! 
If you live out of town, you can listen on yr computer at yr convenience. Well worth the time and trouble --  --Jenifer

--- On Mon, 7/18/11, Melisse Trentz <mtfaye at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

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THIS WEEK'S
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Dave Zirin
Named 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. Zirin 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 and the Progressive. 
His most recent book is Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love (Scribner). Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein called Bad Sports “an original and scathing look at how America works.” 
Zirin is also the author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States, part of Howard Zinn’s People’s History Series for the New Press. A People’s History of Sports forms the basis of a documentary co-written and narrated by Zirin called Not Just A Game: Power, Politics and American
 Sports, produced by the Media Education Foundation. 
In addition he has written Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports (Haymarket Books), with a foreword by the immortal Chuck D. Sports Illustrated wrote that Terrordome is “a provocative, sometimes chilling, look at sports and society right now.” His first book, What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books) has entered its third printing.
Zirin has brought his blend of sports and politics to multiple television programs including NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly, ESPN’s Outside the Lines, MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, ESPN Classic,
 MSNBC’s Morning Joe, CNN, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Comcast Sports Network’s Washington Post Live, C-SPAN’s BookTV,
 and Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. He has also been on numerous national radio programs including National Public Radio’s Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered.
Zirin
 has debated FOX Sports president Ed Goren on college football’s Bowl 
Championship Series for National Public Radio, Bridgestone Firestone 
President Dan Adomitis in the pages of the Los Angeles Times on
 whether his company should be the “official tire of the Super Bowl” 
while in court for using child labor in Liberia, and the issue of 
steroids in sports with Jose Canseco and John Rocker. His writing has 
also appeared in Vibe Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, New York Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, the Pittsburgh Courier, The Source, and numerous other publications.
He loves the Mets, Jets, Wizards, and Mystics. 
His newest book, in collaboration with John Carlos, is The John Carlos Story,
 forthcoming from Haymarket Books in September 2011. After reading the 
book, DeMaurice Smith, the director of the NFL Players Association, 
commented, “History tells us iconic moments in sport are always 
enveloped in personal stories of sacrifice, courage, and angst. The 
lasting images that we see occur in a flash contain enriching back 
stories that are typically even more significant and tragic than the 
moment itself. John Carlos and Dave Zirin have combined to tell such a 
story. The moment that two men stood on the world platform to take a 
stand after they had become the best in the world is rich, complicated 
but most importantly as relevant today as it was in Mexico City. Dave 
brings a beautiful and passionate voice of truth to his listeners and 
achieves the same in this book about a man who became a legend.
www.edgeofsports.com


LAST WEEK'S PROGRAM - IF YOU MISSED LAST WEEK'S SHOW, LISTEN TO THE PODCAST OR ARCHIVES AT will.illinois.edu/mediamatters
 Michelle Alexander, Author of "The New Jim Crow"
A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander won a
 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the 
Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and
 Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years 
as the director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern 
California, which spearheaded the national campaign against racial 
profiling. At the beginning of her career she served as a law clerk on 
the United States Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun. She lives 
outside Columbus, Ohio.
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