Game over : how politics has turned the sports world upside down / Dave Zirin.

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"Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy": sports and politics just don't mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout and the role of so...

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Main Author: Zirin, Dave
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Sports > Political aspects > United States.
Sports > Social aspects > United States.
Recreation.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports.
Physical Description:xxiii, 225 pages ; 21 cm
Variant Title:
How politics has turned the sports world upside down.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Pre-game
  • Occupy the sports world
  • "You have to be an ultra from within" : soccer and the Arab spring
  • Today's World Cup and Olympics : Invictus in reverse
  • Zombie teams and zombie owners
  • Joe Paterno : death, remembrance, and the wages of sin
  • The NCAA's "whiff of the plantation"
  • Here come Los Suns
  • "Is your underwear flame retardant" : sexuality and sports
  • "I'm not your child" : racism today in sports
  • Post-game.