About the Author

Dave Zirin was Press Action's Sportswriter of the Year and is the hippest sports commentator on the block. He writes for the Los Angeles Times, the Pittsburgh Courier, The Source, the Nation, cbsnews.com, College Sporting News, the Prince George's Post, alternet, the Black Sports Network and Counterpunch. He broadcasts on WBAI radio's 'Wake Up Call' with Deepa Fernandes, and on TV: ESPN's Outside the Lines, the BBC's Extratime, and CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. His first book, What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the Unites States, met with great acclaim.