Welcome to the Terrordome
Subtitle: the pain, politics, and promise of sports
By: Dave Zirin.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781931859417
Subjects: Sports -- Political aspects -- United States; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States; Racism in sports -- United States
Description: A discussion of the social history of sports, politics, race, class, and the identity of professional athletes, including examples such as the use of the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, the use of steroids in baseball, and the relationship between the NBA and hip-hop.
Table of contents: title: Relearning Roberto Clemente; title: Beisbol : how the major leagues eat their young; title: Soccer : the perilous practice of political projection; title: The 2006 World Cup : the politics of play personified; title: The NBA and the two souls of hip-hop; title: The Olympics : gold, guns, and graft; title: Barry Bonds gonna git your mama : when steroids attack!; title: The uses of sports : how people in power exploit the games; title: The way it was, the way it is; title: In their own words; title: Marching in : tearing down the Terrordome.