Posts by: Dave Zirin

I Shattered My Leg at the NCAA Tournament and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

By On April 7, 2013

The Nation: There’s been a river of ink already spilled over Louisville guard Kevin Ware’s horrific leg injury during the Cardinals’ Elite Eight victory over the Duke Blue Devils. Most, with some notable exceptions, have tested the bounds of hokey sentimentality: the classic story of an injured player inspiring his shaken team to [...]

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Jackie Robinson, Trayvon Martin, and The Sad History of Sanford Fl

By On March 28, 2012

(First posted at The Nation): Sanford, Florida is a city that will now be known for all times as the place where Trayvon Martin was killed for the crime of Living While Black. It’s in addition the place whose institutions—the police department, the local press, and even the city morgue—treated Trayvon and his body [...]

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