Sports and the African American Experience Sports and the African American Experience
Leading an all-star panel of thinkers and athletes, The Nation's Dave Zirin asks, why is the history of sports and the African American experience so deeply intertwined?
Feb 8, 2011 / Press Room
Sports and the African American Experience Sports and the African American Experience
Leading an all-star panel of thinkers and athletes, The Nation's Dave Zirin asks, why is the history of sports and the African American experience so deeply intertwined?
Feb 8, 2011 / Press Room
The Green Bay Packers: A Team for Progressives The Green Bay Packers: A Team for Progressives
Dave Zirin says that the Green Bay Packers are a special case in football, representing a possibility for community involvement and social change rarely seen in sports.
Feb 7, 2011 / Press Room
The Green Bay Packers: A Team for Progressives The Green Bay Packers: A Team for Progressives
Dave Zirin says that the Green Bay Packers are a special case in football, representing a possibility for community involvement and social change rarely seen in sports.
Feb 7, 2011 / GRITtv
Fox Be Damned: Why a Packers Victory Is the People’s Victory Fox Be Damned: Why a Packers Victory Is the People’s Victory
Amidst the bombast, the Packers won the Super Bowl. But the broadcast did what it could to hide the truth of the team's radical ownership structure.
Feb 7, 2011 / Dave Zirin
Washington Football Owner Dan Snyder Offends Everybody Washington Football Owner Dan Snyder Offends Everybody
A billionaire gets zinged by a local newspaper with a modest readership and then proceeds to trivialize the Holocaust and blackmail the paper with financial Armageddon. All in a da...
Feb 3, 2011 / Dave Zirin
You Must Watch the Empire Bowl You Must Watch the Empire Bowl
By this year's Super Bowl, if you are still passionately following football or, worse, allowing your kid to play, you may just be an old-fashioned imperialist running dog.
Jan 31, 2011 / Robert Lipsyte
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Eric Alterman rounds up the best of New York, confronts Reagan's Alzheimer's and reader mail.
Jan 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Invoking Dr. King, Charles Barkley Stands Strongly for LGBT Rights Invoking Dr. King, Charles Barkley Stands Strongly for LGBT Rights
Charles Barkley felt a responsibility to use his platform on a TNT pregame show to speak out for Gay Rights. Given who spoke before him, we should be grateful that he did.
Jan 19, 2011 / Dave Zirin
‘I’m a Negro Who Speak Up’: Remembering Football Great Cookie Gilchrist ‘I’m a Negro Who Speak Up’: Remembering Football Great Cookie Gilchrist
Cookie Gilchrist, one of the great football players and outspoken athletes, died of cancer on January 10, the day before a remarkable political/sports anniversary.
Jan 13, 2011 / Dave Zirin