CANCELLED

March 25 (new date), 7:00 PM, Location: Book People, 603 N. Lamar Blvd.

DAVE ZIRIN SPEAKS ON SPORTS AND POLITICS IN THE U.S.

Dave Zirin, Press Action’s 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year, has been called “an icon in the world of progressive sports.” He is both a columnist for SLAM Magazine, a regular contributor to the Nation Magazine, and a regular op-ed writer for the Los Angeles Times. He also has an online column on Sports Illustrated’s website, sicom. Zirin’s new book Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports (with a foreword by Chuck D) has already been called “the sports primer for our time.” Sports Illustrated wrote that Terrordome is “a provocative, sometimes chilling, look at sports and society right now.” Zirin is also the author of The Muhammad Ali Handbook, and What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States. Zirin has brought his blend of sports and politics to multiple television programs including ESPN’s Outside the Lines, ESPN Classic, and Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, and his writing has also appeared in New York Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, The Dallas/Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Source, and numerous other publications.