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  1. Let Iran's national women's team play!

    change from the outside.鈥 Given the way women鈥檚 rights have been used as a red herring to justify war on ... Islamophobia. On June 5, moments before Iran鈥檚 women鈥檚 team was due to take to the pitch and play in an Olympic ... who bans the hijab proposed in 2004 that women players wear 鈥渉ot pants鈥 on the pitch to boost the ...

  2. Dave Zirin: Political fervour thrums beneath Super Bowl鈥檚 surface

    Anti-racism Imperialism & war Climate crisis Democracy LGBTIQ Sports Feminism Dave Zirin ... overtime in Houston, Texas on February 5. That will mean joy in the White House 鈥 as Donald Trump鈥檚 ... the women鈥檚 marches that exploded after the Trump inauguration, given that Vice-President Mike Pence ...

  3. 'I Just Wanted to Be Free': The radical reverberations of Muhammad Ali

    connected wars abroad with attacks on the black, brown and poor at home, and it was said from the most hyper ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism Sports History Dave Zirin Muhammad Ali The reverberations. Not ... his epic 鈥渞umbles鈥 against racism and war. But it's the reverberations that we have to understand ...

  4. US NFL stars risk careers with anthem protest

    unprecedented assault on civil liberties, the scapegoating of an entire religion and an illegal war in Iraq that ... kneel during national anthem on September 11. On September 11 in the United States, a small group of ... players on the New England Patriots: Martellus Bennett and Devin McCourty; three players on the Tennessee ...

  5. Dave Zirin: Why Serena Williams is today's Muhammad Ali

    Slam title. That is the same number every other active women鈥檚 player has collected combined. In her ... be gaining strength. As John McEnroe said, among women, 鈥渟he could arguably be the greatest athlete ... unjust war, becoming the most famous draft resister in history. His very presence at different points ...

  6. Dave Zirin: Protest Putin's gay bashing, but Olympics ban not the answer

    I do, however, feel that on principle I need to state that I strongly disagree with his central premise. ... with this demand, even though I oppose with every fibre President Vladimir Putin鈥檚 brutal crackdown on ... a country abysmal on human rights. Second is the critical question of who gets to initiate such a powerful ...

  7. Dave Zirin: US college football players win right to form union

    a football player who died on the field of play failed in her efforts to sue the National Collegiate Athletic ... 鈥渟tudent-athletes鈥. The experts were proven wrong on March 26, and the established order in the sports world has been ... offer players a cut of the shoe money? What if the best players, as was suggested to me on Twitter, now ...