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Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

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A THOUGHT-PROVOKING LOOK AT THE BIG BUSINESS AND IMMORAL PRACTICES BEHIND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BY ACCLAIMED SPORTSWRITER DAVE ZIRIN, HAILED AS THE “CONSCIENCE OF AMERICAN SPORTSWRITING” (THE WASHINGTON POST )The fastest-growing sector of today’s sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints abound: from inflated ticket prices, $6 hot dogs, and $9 beers to owners endlessly demanding new multimillion-dollar stadiums funded by public tax dollars. Those s… More >>

Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

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  • Cool Papa J says:
    July 25, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    If you are a sports fan, or a progressive, you can’t let this book get by you. I was truly caught flat-footed by Zirin’s frozen ropes of insight into why I haven’t been as inspired by the games I grew up loving so much–and by his ideas about what it will take to reclaim the game from profit driven owners. As a resident of Seattle, I was impressed how well Zirin tackled the saga of Clay Bennett and his sell out of our city by shipping of our beloved Sonics to Oklahoma. But this book is much more than an expose of rapacious sports team moguls. It is sociological study of sports and its fans that uncovers previously obscured ideas about why people marvel and partake in play. It is a study of urban planning in America and the role of the sports teams and stadiums in the modern metropolis. Moreover, it is a playbook for fans and social activists to make our cities and our teams inspiring once again.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  • A Computer Fan says:
    July 25, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    I was lucky to get my hands on this at my neighborhood bookstore before it’s officially released. If you like sports, it’s a must read to understand how the owners are messing with the game and our society more generally. If you like politics, it’s a must read so you can understand what the hell sports fans are talking about when they complain about the latest outrageous trade or missed opportunity (plus you’ll get some good cocktail talking points to come at these questions from a different angle). If you don’t like sports or politics, I don’t know why you got this far, but any writer that Chuck D, Naomi Klein and Robert Lipsyte all like is worth checking out.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  • P.F.C. says:
    July 25, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    For anyone like me whose love of sports has waned due to money-grubbing owners and right-wing league marketing departments (yay for war!) this book is like medicine. It managed to remind me that the teams I love don’t belong to turds in suits, they belong to the players and us. (And that the turds can’t get away with any more than we let them, so we should stop letting them.)
    Rating: 5 / 5

  • Jesse Zarley says:
    July 25, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    I’m an avid follower of Zirin’s website, Edge of Sports, and a weekly listener to his radio show. For ANY sports fan OR political activist who likes what he has had to say on issues ranging from the Lebron saga, popularizing the fight against Arizona’s anti-immigrant SB1070 to his on the ground coverage of resistance to the Olympics in Vancouver and his reporting from South Africa in the lead up to the World Cup – you will love Bad Sports!

    The first ever sports editor for the Nation magazine steps up to the plate and delivers a real winner. This book is a must read! I am not personally the most hard core sports fan, but I’ve eagerly read all of Zirin’s previous books and they make great gifts for the politico or sports fan in your family. Bad Sports does not disappoint.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  • JT DeNinno says:
    July 25, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    What a fantastic book! Not only did I learn a whole lot about what goes on in the owners box, I was thoroughly entertained by it. Tremendous work here from one of our age’s great sports writers in Dave Zirin. Bad Sports is worth every penny!
    Rating: 5 / 5

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