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Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Dave Zirin
Categories: Hosting of sporting events
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Haymarket Books

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Zirin widens his remit to take a hard look at the trends now shaping sports in the United States and abroad, including an analysis of the 2006 World Cup.
What's My Name, Fool?
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Dave Zirin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02 - Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

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In Whats My Name, Fool? sports writer Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst - and at times the most creative, exciting, and political - features of our
The Politics of Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Ron Briley
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-30 - Publisher: McFarland

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Examining baseball not just as a game but as a social, historical, and political force, this collection of sixteen essays looks at the sport from the perspectiv
A People’s History of Sports in the United States
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: David Zirin
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-09 - Publisher: The New Press

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From the author Robert Lipsyte calls "the best young sportswriter in America," a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts pol
Sexual Sports Rhetoric
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Linda K. Fuller
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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"Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts is concerned with wider, international applications of language to sport. Topics discussed range from wom