Archive

08/26/10 - Revelations of Rot: Behind Baseball's Corporate Crime Wave

Let’s look at what we have before us: leaked documents that by all accounts should be part of the public record; an alarming snapshot of corruption, waste, and fraud that connects the seamiest worlds of politics and big business; calls to prosecute whoever might be responsible for daring to drag truth into the light of day.

 

No, this isn’t a summary of the “WikiLeaks scandal” that exposed the brutal facts that surround the US quagmire in Afghanistan. It's Major League Baseball...

08/23/10 - Enrique Morones: The Man Who Would Move the Game

Enrique Morones has been at the heart of the movement to move the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game from the state of Arizona.  As much as anyone in the United States, he is uniquely positioned to provide leadership on the connection between baseball and the rights of immigrants. For six years, Morones worked for the San Diego Padres as a Vice President in charge of connecting the franchise to the Latino community, Major League Baseball’s first Department of Hispanic Marketing. In addition, Morones is the founder of Border Angels, an organization that leaves blankets, food and water on the rough desert terrain to provide tools of survival for people crossing the border. Here I speak to Mr. Morones about his work.

08/22/10 - Clemens Shouldn't Have to Take the Fall

Roger Clemens is about as popular in baseball circles as jock itch. The man is such a pariah, he makes Barry Bonds look like Justin Bieber. Yet we should hold the cheers over the recent news that Clemens has been indicted on perjury charges for lying in front of Congress on questions related his much-denied steroid use. Not one owner has ever been called to account for the steroid era in Major League Baseball. Not one person who has called an owner's box home has had to answer questions about steroid use. Until that changes, our eyes are focused on the wrong targets.

08/18/10 - Rain, Risk Takers, Racists, and Rancor: Demonstrating Against the D-Backs

08/11/10 - This Sunday: The Arizona Diamondbacks Come to DC…and They’re Not Alone

08/07/10 - In Honor of the Isiah Rehire: A Tribute to James Dolan, the Muse of Bad Sports

08/06/10 - DeVos-ed From Reality: Why I Was Booted From the Pat Williams Show

07/29/10 - What Owners Owe Us

07/27/10 - The Rachel Maddow Show Appearance

07/21/10 - Protests at the Park: The Precedent and the Promise

07/14/10 - George Steinbrenner: The Death of 'the Bridge'

07/13/10 - All-Star Speak-Out: Baseball Players Pledge to Boycott Arizona All Star Game

07/09/10 - Lebron James vs. Dan Gilbert: Who Really Killed Cleveland?

07/08/10 - Lebron James: The Uncool

07/06/10 - The Dramatic Drop in Women's Sports Coverage: An Interview with Mike Messner

07/01/10 - Into the Vacuum: Tony La Russa Loves Arizona’s SB 1070

06/28/10 - The Beautiful Game, A Beautiful Cause: Why I Root for Argentina

06/27/10 - Putting Tears Aside: Celebrating Ghana's Victory

06/23/10 - After Donovan's Goal: Joy or Jingoism

06/22/10 - The Eagleton has Landed: A Response on Sports and Society

06/14/10 - Glenn Beck's Blues: Why the Far Right Hates Soccer

06/10/10 - “At least under Apartheid…..” South Africa on the Eve of the World Cup

06/07/10 - THE WORST CALL EVER…Reconsidered

06/01/10 - History as Handi-Wipe: Rush Limbaugh is Not Muhammad Ali

05/25/10 - Memo to Bud Selig: Move the Damn Game

05/24/10 - Crooklyn: New Jersey Nets Sold to Russian Billionaire

05/20/10 - "We're trying to get a deal done" Interview with NFLPA President DeMaurice Smith

05/17/10 - Boycott Phil Jackson: Why Lakers Fans should Root for Los Suns

05/14/10 - That's Bill Russell

05/12/10 - New Reason to Protest the Arizona Diamondbacks: House Bill 2281

05/11/10 - “This is Beyond Sports” Chuck D on the fight in Arizona

05/10/10 - The Ugly Truth: How Diamondbacks Owner Ken Kendrick Continues to Support SB 1070

05/06/10 - Los Suns Also Rise: Phoenix Suns Win in More Ways Than One

05/04/10 - A New Era: Here Come The Suns

05/04/10 - Bud Selig: The Choice is Yours

05/03/10 - Under Pressure: Arizona D-backs Owner Comes Out Softly Against Anti-immigrant Bill

05/01/10 - “This is Racist Stuff”: Baseball Players/Union Speak Out Against Arizona Law

04/29/10 - To Catch a Fire: Diamondback Protests Take Off

04/28/10 - Chicago Cubs Smack Down Immigrant Rights Message

04/24/10 - No One is Illegal: Boycott the Arizona Diamondbacks

04/22/10 - Burying Juan Antonio Samaranch

04/20/10 - Ben Roethlisberger: No Justice, No Play?

04/17/10 - A Stadium Grows in Durban

04/13/10 - Clock Almost Striking Midnight for Big Ben

04/08/10 - The Nike Ad: Tiger the Brand Finally Conquers Tiger the Man

04/05/10 - The Hate Crime: A Question Tiger Woods must Answer

04/02/10 - Let Caster Run!

03/29/10 - Brittney Griner: Your March Madness MVP

03/26/10 - The Gilbert Arenas Judgment: "Privilege" Personified?

03/24/10 - Arne Duncan and the Madness of March

03/18/10 - Root for Ed O'Bannon to upset the NCAA

03/15/10 - Reclaiming a Legacy: The Death of Fatima Meer and the World Cup

03/10/10 - The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse

03/04/10 - How Sports Attacks Public Education

03/01/10 - Note to ESPN’s Bill Simmons: Tiger Woods is not Muhammad Ali

02/26/10 - Sportsmanship: The Great Olympic Fraud

02/22/10 - Nodar Kumaritashvili: Never Forget

02/20/10 - Tiger Woods: When you are brand before man

02/17/10 - Fruits of the Backlash: The New All-White Basketball League

02/12/10 - Christopher Hitchens: Sporting Fool

02/11/10 - When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown

02/07/10 - Who Dat? Dat's the Super Bowl Champs!

02/03/10 - Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali

02/02/10 - Tim Tebow and CBS: United Against “Choice”

01/30/10 - An Idiot Among Us: Paul Shirley on Haiti

01/27/10 - The Vancouver Olympic Blues

01/25/10 - Silver Lining for Vikings Fans (Politically)

01/22/10 - NFL Owners Stiff-arm Fans/Union

01/18/10 - MLK wasn't an athlete, but he understood importance of sports

01/15/10 - "We are a Forgotten People": An Interview with Haitian NBA Vet Olden Polynice

01/12/10 - Mark McGwire's Pound of Flesh

01/11/10 - Sport for Sport's Sake

01/07/10 - Faculty Protest Texas Football Coach's Raise

01/05/10 - Al Sharpton Wants Gilbert Arenas Punished. Seriously.

01/04/10 - Bench the BCS

12/30/09 - Dennis Brutus 1924-2009: The Man Who Would Reclaim Sports

12/28/09 - "Every Story Had a Purpose": an appreciation of the late Lester Rodney

12/23/09 - More than a Sportswriter: Lester “Red” Rodney: 1911-2009

12/18/09 - A Different Scandal: Tiger Woods Named Athlete of the Decade

12/14/09 - Tiger Falls from Grace

12/09/09 - The People Speak: When Television Makes History

12/03/09 - Message to Obama: You Can't Have Muhammad Ali

11/30/09 - Tiger Woods Deserves Your Scrutiny

11/28/09 - Amy Goodman and Canada's Olympic Paranoia

11/24/09 - The NFL’s Concussion Conundrum

11/18/09 - Women Ski Jumpers and the Rule of Law

11/10/09 - A Sterling Shame

11/06/09 - DMC with DZ in STUDIO!!!

11/02/09 - The Coming Labor War in the NFL

10/29/09 - L.A. Stadium Story: No football team, No Problem

10/22/09 - LeBron James: The Man Who Would Dunk on Dubya

10/19/09 - 94 ‘Til Infinity : How SLAM helped change the basketball landscape forever

10/18/09 - Thanks to the Utne Reader for naming Dave Zirin one of the 2009 50 Visionaries who are Changing Your World

10/16/09 - Rush Limbaugh: Why the NFL Just Said No

10/15/09 - Response to Rush Limbaugh's Rage

10/09/09 - Why NFL Owners Must Flush Rush

10/06/09 - “Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights

10/05/09 - Can the NFL Tackle Homophobia?

10/02/09 - Victory/Agony: Chicago Loses the Olympics

09/29/09 - Obama's Olympic Error UPDATED

09/18/09 - Sports and the Uncivil Society

09/15/09 - Double Standard for Serena Williams

09/14/09 - Stop the Savage Sex Scare in Sports

09/09/09 - Exclusive: Kermit Washington's Advice to LeGarrette Blount

09/08/09 - LeGarrette Blount and the Politics of the Punch