NEW FROM HaymarketBooks:

WHAT'S MY NAME, FOOL?
Sports and Resistance in the United States
by DAVE ZIRIN

This book brilliantly and beautifully makes the connection
between sports, politics, and resistance.
                                            Chuck D., Public Enemy

Dave Zirin is an angry young man, and he's not bashful about
telling you why, no quarter asked, no holds barred. In his new
book, What's My Name, Fool?, he calls out the many inequities
he sees on the level playing fields. It's good to read such an
impassioned critic taking sport to task in a manner we haven't
heard in some time.
                             Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, NPR

In What's My Name, Fool? sports writer Dave Zirin shows how
sports express the worst and at times the most creative, exciting,
and political features of our society. Zirin's sharp and
insightful commentary on the personalities, politics, and history
of American sports is unlike any sports writing being
done today.

Zirin explores how NBA brawls highlight tensions beyond the
arena, how the bold stances taken by sports unions can chart a
path for the entire labor movement, and the unexplored political
stirrings of a new generation of athletes who are no longer
content to just