Tag Archives: NBA
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down”
Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. By Dave Zirin. New York: The New Press, 2013. Dave Zirin does certainly not have writer’s block. He has been churning out books virtually every year since 2005 when … Continue reading
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Tagged Dave Zirin, Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down, MLB, NBA, NFL, The New Press
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Wednesday’s Book Review: “A People’s History of Sports in the United States”
A People’s History of Sports in the United States. By Dave Zirin. New York: The New Press, 2008. I have appreciated Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States since I was first exposed to it. I have also been … Continue reading
Owners Behaving Badly: A Review of Dave Zirin’s “Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love”
I have just finished reading Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love (Scribner, 2010) b y Washington, D.C., sports writer Dave Zirin. I have enjoyed his columns for The Nation for years, but his books I find … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, owners, sports franchises, stadium deals
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