Game Over How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

Name: Game Over How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down
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ISBN: 9781595588159

ISBN-10: 1595588159

ISBN-13: 9781595588159

Edition: 2013

Authors: Dave Zirin

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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 1/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Zirin is Editor of the Prince George's Post (Maryland) and writes the weekly column Edge of Sports (edgeofsports.com). He is a Senior Writer at Basketball.com and writes for The Source.



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Pre-Game



Occupy the Sports World



ï¿½You Have to Be an Ultra from Within": Soccer and the Arab Spring



Today's World Cup and Olympics: Invictus in Reverse



Zombie Teams and Zombie Owners



Joe Paterno: Death, Remembrance, and the Wages of Sin



The NCAA's "Whiff of the Plantation"



Here Come Los Suns



"Is Your Underwear Flame Retardant?": Sexuality and Sports



"I'm Not Your Child": Racism Today in Sports


Post-Game


Notes


Index