Quotes from Dave Zirin

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Solitude is a powerful thing. People who can't use solitude always have to find some kind of bullshit to do.

I broke into Hollywood the old-fashioned way. I knew somebody.

it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

President Teddy Roosevelt argued that organized athletics could be the means for instilling the character and values deemed necessary to make America a global power in the century to come. Sports could breed a sense of hard work, self-discipline, and the win-at-all-cost ethic of competition. Roosevelt once said, presumably while swinging a big stick,

Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.