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Welcome to the Terrordome : the pain, politics, and promise of sports / Dave Zirin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zirin, Dave.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports and state--United States.
- Sports and state.
- Sports--Social aspects--United States.
- Sports.
- Racism in sports--United States.
- Racism in sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The nation's sharpest sportswriter explores the contested politics of sports and profiles athletes making change.
- Contents:
- Relearning Roberto Clemente
- Beisbol : 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-78913-9
- 9786612789137
- 1-60846-000-2
- OCLC:
- 697120843
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