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Dave Zirin is an American political sportswriter. He is the sports editor for The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture, and writes a blog named Edge of Sports: the weekly sports column by Dave Zirin. As of January 2017, he has authored nine books.

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The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Become, Building, Funded, Stadiums, Substitue, Urban

Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

Become, Lines, Obliterated, Purpose, Purposes, Sports

I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

Country, Dark, Face, Mean, Safer, Years

Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged. ' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.

Benefit, Entire, Native American, Racism, Short, Sports

This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.

Across, Confronting, Frustration, Men, World

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup

Chris Lytle

Chris Lytle

Eduardo C. Corral

Eduardo C. Corral

Nicole Appleton

Nicole Appleton

Florence Henderson

Florence Henderson

Andres Iniesta

Andres Iniesta

Donna de Varona

Donna de Varona

Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann

Sharad Devarajan

Sharad Devarajan

Gerhard Berger

Gerhard Berger

Lucy Hawking

Lucy Hawking

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin