<DIV><p>“Zirin is America's best sportswriter.”—Lee Ballinger, <i>Rock and Rap Confidential</i></p><p>“Zirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s.”—Lester Rodney, <i>N.Y. Daily Worker</i> sports editor, 1936–1958</p><p>“Zirin has an amazing talent for covering the sports and politics beat. Ranging like a great shortstop, he scoops up everything! He profiles the courageous and inspiring athletes who are standing up for peace and civil liberties in this repressive age. A must read!”—Matthew Rothschild, <i>The Progressive</i></p><p>“This is cutting-edge analysis delivered with wit and compassion.”—Mike Marqusee, author, <i>Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties</i></p><p>Here <i>Edgeofsports.com</i> sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society.</p><p>Zirin explores how Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash-time show exposed more than a breast, why the labor movement has everything to learn from sports unions and why a new generation of athletes is no longer content to “play one game at a time” and is starting to get political.</p><p><i>What's My Name, Fool!</i> draws on original interviews with former heavyweight champ George Foreman, Olympian and black power saluter John Carlos, NBA basketball player and anti-death penalty activist Etan Thomas, antiwar women's college hoopster Toni Smith, Olympic Project for Human Rights leader Lee Evans and many others.</p><p>Popular sportswriter and commentator <b>Dave Zirin</b> is editor of <i>The Prince George's Post</i> (Maryland) and writes the weekly column “Edge of Sports” (<i>edgeofsports.com</i>). He is a senior writer at <i>basketball.com</i>. Zirin's writing has also appeared in <i>The Source</i>, <i>Common Dreams</i>, <i>College Sporting News</i>, <i>CounterPunch</i>, <i>Alternet</i>, <i>International Socialist Review</i>, <i>Black Sports Network</i>, <i>War Times</i>, <i>San Francisco Bay View</i> and <i>Z Magazine</i>.</p></DIV>