What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States

"Zirin is America's best sportswriter."-Lee Ballinger, *Rock and Rap Confidential* "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, *N.Y. Daily Worker* sports editor, 1936-1958 "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, *The Progressive* "This is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion."-Mike Marqusee, author, *Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties* Here *Edgeofsports.com* sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society. Zirin 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. *What's My Name, Fool!* 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. Popular sportswriter and commentator **Dave 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*. Zirin's writing has also appeared in *The Source*, *Common Dreams*, *College Sporting News*, *CounterPunch*, *Alternet*, *International Socialist Review*, *Black Sports Network*, *War Times*, *San Francisco Bay View* and *Z Magazine*.