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Welcome to the Terrordome : the pain, politics, and promise of sports / Dave Zirin.
Van Pelt Library GV706.35 .Z57 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zirin, Dave.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Political aspects--United States.
- Sports.
- Sports--Social aspects--United States.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- Racism in sports.
- Sports--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Racism in sports--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- This much-anticipated sequel to "Whats My Name, Fool?" by acclaimed commentator Zirin breaks new ground in sports writing, looking at the controversies and trends now shaping sports in the United States-and abroad.
- Contents:
- Relearning Roberto Clemente
- Béisbol : how the major leagues eat their young
- Soccer : the perilous practice of political projection
- The 2006 World Cup : the politics of play personified
- The NBA and the two souls of hip-hop
- The Olympics : gold, guns, and graft
- Barry Bonds gonna git your mama : when steroids attack!
- The uses of sports : how people in power exploit the games
- The way it was, the way it is
- In their own words
- Marching in : tearing down the Terrordome.
- ISBN:
- 9781931859417
- 1931859418
- OCLC:
- 124026630
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