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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
I want to thank Brad and Bev. Especially Brad for keeping it hoppin’.
In struggle and sports
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
The solidarity on display before the first game of the year when the Saints and Vikings speaks to another trend. Both teams raised a number 1 in the air to symbolize that they were in fact one team. Awesome.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
More than anything, the NFL owners have decided that in a sport with high injury rates, that guaranteed contracts would be financial suicide. But solidarity is the only way to change the calculus on what is a true historic injustice.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
The whole last chapter is on the Packers. That team is in many ways the hero of the book.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Lest we forget: John Carlos and Tommie Smith. And Wyomia Tyus.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
It’s true. They are hard to come by. That’s because they are loved.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
DeMaurice Smith who heads the NFLPA says that on a scale of 1-10, it’s a 14. That sounds about right. The owners said that they would cancel the health benefits of players once the lockout starts. Not a way to calm tensions.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
I would say, make tickets cheaper, make beer cheaper, make parking cheaper, and yes PAY FOR YOUR OWN DAMN STADIUM.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Scott Fujita, Josh Howard, Adalius Thomas,
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Yup! I have a whole section on it in the book. for a 300,000 investment (borrowed) George W. Bush got to call himself an owner and walked away with 15 million bucks. Nice work if you can get it. And thank you, Jane, for your invaluable work.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Also Steve Nash. Arthur Ashe. Bill Russell. Billie Jean King. Martina. Etan Thomas… the list is long.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Can we change the name of the National Review to “the Awful National Review”?
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
The tragedy is that for years the NFL was like Big Tobacco talking about lung cancer. No definitive evidence that playing football leads to brain damage!
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
I think they have taken steps to avoid a massive class action law suit.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Terrific movie. I also talk about it a lot in a documentary I just put out with the Media Education Foundation called Not Just A Game. http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=151
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
I always say, it’s the 112,000 owners of the Green Bay Packers.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Getting there. The more I meet retired players, the closer I get. As Scott Fujita said to me, it’s the only job with a 100% injury rate.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Not if I don’t want to be sued. My section on Mikhail Prokhorov was deemed too hot to handle….
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
No way. It will be Kyle Shanahan.
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Dave Zirin commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
You just said it very well. Snyder is a victim of his own profound insecurity and unearned arrogance…. an awful combination as we saw in the White House from 2000-2008. He has a great skill at building the Redskins brand, at winning the off season and holding up a shiny bauble of a player or coach every off-season to get our attention. And no question, he spends money. But his contempt for the fans – not to mention his employees at Redskins park, not to mention his inability to even consider changing the team’s name….. makes him someone I reserve special scorn for.
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