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The Israeli government’s theory seems to be if you degrade the national team, you degrade the idea that there could ever be a nation.read more

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More than 2,000 former NFL players—including Hall of Famers and household names like Art Monk and Jim McMahon—are claiming that the league had direct knowledge that repeated head trauma could lead to everything from Alzheimers to ALS.read more

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DAVE ZIRIN | Guillen was forced to grovel like a broken man at a press conference that was missing only a stockade.read more

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Should we be protesting the Atlanta Braves, too, after Georgia passed its own anti-immigrant legislation?read more

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Dave Zirin says a victory for the players’ union would be a victory for all.read more

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Dave Zirin ponders Brett Favre’s legacy.read more

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How long will it be until football becomes like boxing, a sport that marginalized itself by the horrors of the slurred speech of a generation of champions?read more

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I once had a coach who could spit tobacco hard enough to break a window. He smelled like an old hamper, and only wore pants that came with an elastic waist. Still, every last one of us loved the guy. He always said, “Sports is like a hammer, gents. And you can use a hammer for all kinds of things. You can use it to build a house, or you can use it to bash somebody’s head. Choose wisely.”read more

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Major League Baseball, with its utter dependence on both the Latino players and the economic bonanza of the All Star game, is susceptible to pressure.read more

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This will be the last column I write about the Arizona Diamondbacks in the foreseeable future. For me, they do not exist. They will continue to not exist in my mind as long as the horribly named “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” remains law in Arizona. This law has brought echoes of apartheid to the state.read more

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I have been to many a playing field in my day, and never have I seen a sports arena as breathtaking as Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa. After getting a private tour of the $457 million marvel, designed for the World Cup, I left utterly stunned, for both better and worse.read more

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The range of ugliness on display—from the catty to the racist to the fatal—is significant because it exposes the reality of what the Winter Olympics are all about: television and corporate dollars.read more

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Dave Zirin says gender testing is plain wrong.read more

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Why was a college football player allegedly booted off the team for not taking his helmet off when the national anthem was playing--even when the anthem was actually playing on an adjacent field for a high school soccer game.read more

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