Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate
David Zirin argues for a Super Bowl chock-full of advocacy ads.
Feb 5, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali
First let me put my cards on the table. I consider Jemele Hill, sports columnist for ESPN.com to be as incisive and interesting as they come. She has been a frequent and fearless g...
Feb 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
The Second Sex at the Super Bowl The Second Sex at the Super Bowl
The Tim Tebow commercial is no departure at all for viewers of the big game.
Feb 2, 2010 / Feature / Jaclyn Friedman
All-White Basketball League: Bringing Segregation Back All-White Basketball League: Bringing Segregation Back
If not for the incessant backlash against NBA players, the all-white All-American Basketball Alliance would never have gotten off the ground.
Feb 2, 2010 / Column / Dave Zirin and David J. Leonard
Protests Dog Olympic Torch Relay Across Canada Protests Dog Olympic Torch Relay Across Canada
The "running of the Olympic torch." Its roots lie in the propaganda department of Nazi Germany, as Joseph Goebbels saw it as an ingenious way to spread the Nazi gospel ac...
Jan 23, 2010 / Dave Zirin
NFL Wants to Go Steady–With Reebok NFL Wants to Go Steady–With Reebok
The Supreme Court will soon tell the NFL whether it can knock out competition by cutting deals as a single entity.
Jan 21, 2010 / Column / Dave Zirin and Jeremiah Tittle
Resistance is Coming to the Vancouver Olympics Resistance is Coming to the Vancouver Olympics
I am far from home here in Vancouver to learn more about the coming Winter Olympic Games in February.
Jan 21, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Mark McGwire’s Pound of Flesh Mark McGwire’s Pound of Flesh
In the ten years Brian Williams has anchored the NBC Nightly News, he has never once launched a broadcast by lambasting a public figure. Henry Paulson after the economic collapse? ...
Jan 12, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Faculty Protest Texas Football Coach’s Raise Faculty Protest Texas Football Coach’s Raise
University of Texas football coach Mack Brown is getting a $2 million bonus while the rest of campus is tightening its belt.
Jan 5, 2010 / Column / Dave Zirin and Snehal Shingavi
Dave Zirin on the Year in Sports Dave Zirin on the Year in Sports
The Nation's Dave Zirin weighs in on the year's biggest controversies from A-Rod to Michael Vick to Tiger Woods.
Dec 29, 2009 / MSNBC