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Dave Zirin
Spring 2012 Titles:
Bad Sports
How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Dave Zirin
PAPERBACK From the "conscience of American sportswriting" (
The Washington Post
), a provocative call to reexamine the business of professional sports and put some fun back in the game for fans, with a new preface by the author
Also Available by Dave Zirin:
A People’s History of Sports in the United States
250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
Dave Zirin
From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “The best young sportswriter in America”, a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture
Game Over
How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down
Dave Zirin
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: From the bestselling author of
What’s My Name, Fool?
and the commentator that Robert Lipsyte calls “the smartest and gutsiest sportswriter in America,” a razor-sharp analysis of how sports and politics mix today