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Here Edgeofsports.com sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the utmost creative and fascinating, top features of American culture. Zirin explores how Janet Jackson's Super Dish flash-time show shown greater than a breast, why the labor movements has everything to learn from sports unions, and just why a new generation of athletes is no more content to "play one game at the same time" which is needs to get political. What's My Name, Fool! attracts on original interviews with previous heavyweight champ George Foreman, Olympian and black vitality saluter John Carlos, NBA basketball player and anti-death charges activist Etan Thomas, antiwar women's college hoopster Toni Smith, Olympic Job for Human Privileges leader Lee Evans and many others. Popular sportswriter and commentator Dave Zirin is editor of The Prince George's Post (Maryland) and writes the each week column "Advantage of Sports activities" (edgeofsports.com). He is a senior copy writer at basketball.com. Zirin's writing in addition has appeared in The Source, Common Dreams, College or university Sporting Media, CounterPunch, Alternet, International Socialist Review, Black colored Sports Network, Warfare Times, San Francisco Bay View, and Z Mag.