Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down
ISBN-10
1595588159
ISBN-13
9781595588159
Series
Game Over
Category
Social Science
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
The New Press
Author
Dave Zirin

Description

Legendary sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it rule number one of the jockocracy': sports and politics just don't mix. But as the celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin shows, politics has entered the modern sports arena with a vengeance. This timely and hard-hitting new book reveals the many ways that sports have become the third rail of world politics, offering insight into the efforts of gay and lesbian athletes to gain acceptance, female athletes' fights to be more than sex symbols and collective bargaining among athletes.'

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