{"product_id":"9781931859202","title":"What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Zirin is America’s best sportswriter.”—Lee Ballinger, \u003ci\u003eRock and Rap Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s.”—Lester Rodney, \u003ci\u003eN.Y. Daily Worker\u003c\/i\u003e sports editor, 1936–1958\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zirin has an amazing talent for covering the sports and politics beat. Ranging like a great shortstop, he scoops up everything! He profiles the courageous and inspiring athletes who are standing up for peace and civil liberties in this repressive age. A must read!”—Matthew Rothschild, \u003ci\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion.”—Mike Marqusee, author, \u003ci\u003eRedemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere \u003ci\u003eEdgeofsports.com\u003c\/i\u003e sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZirin explores how Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl flash-time show exposed more than a breast, why the labor movement has everything to learn from sports unions and why a new generation of athletes is no longer content to “play one game at a time” and is starting to get political.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat’s My Name, Fool!\u003c\/i\u003e draws on original interviews with former heavyweight champ George Foreman, Olympian and black power saluter John Carlos, NBA basketball player and anti-death penalty activist Etan Thomas, antiwar women’s college hoopster Toni Smith, Olympic Project for Human Rights leader Lee Evans and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopular sportswriter and commentator \u003cb\u003eDave Zirin\u003c\/b\u003e is editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Prince George’s Post\u003c\/i\u003e (Maryland) and writes the weekly column “Edge of Sports” ( \u003ci\u003eedgeofsports.com\u003c\/i\u003e ). He is a senior writer at \u003ci\u003ebasketball.com\u003c\/i\u003e . Zirin’s writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eCommon Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eCollege Sporting News\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eAlternet\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eInternational Socialist Review\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eBlack Sports Network\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eWar Times\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Bay View\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZ Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039572443376,"sku":"9781931859202","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931859202_p0.jpg?v=1763638813","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931859202","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}