Grand Theft Hoops: The Stealing of the Sonics

Posted in Blogroll, Dave Zirin, Grand Theft Auto, Seattle Supersonics on July 3rd, 2008 by Mizzo

Our resident big brotha almighty Dave Zirin hits us off one mo’ time.

Enjoy…

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Be Peace fam

Kevin Durant, we hardly knew ya. Goodbye Slick Watts. Farewell Gary Payton. And Tom Chambers’ mullet can find somewhere else to call home. Two contemptible men named Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon - who in their spare time spend millions of dollars sponsoring anti-Gay referendums- have moved the Seattle SuperSonics and their 40 years of NBA history to Oklahoma City.

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Boss’s Boycott: The Bonds Vanishes By Dave Zirin

Posted in BALCO, Barry Bonds, Bill Haywood, Bill Simmons, Blogroll, Boston Red Sox, Bud Selig, Dartmouth, Dave Zirin, ESPN, ESPN.com, Leon Trotsky, MLB Player's Association, Major League Baseball, Mark Starr, Mickey Mantle, Mike Gimbel, Montreal Expos, Newsweek, Norm Cash, Peter magowan, Russian Revolution, San Francisco Giants, TSF, Ted Williams on May 12th, 2008 by Mizzo

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How many home runs would Barry Bonds hit if there weren’t so much of these?

DZ stops by TSF yet again to drop some real rap on Bonds being grounded

The Commissar Vanishes is a coffee table book for only the dourest of coffee tables. The hard-covered volume is a photographic compilation of the way that Josef Stalin systematically erased his chief political opponents, Leon Trotsky and his followers, from the history of the Russian Revolution.

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Washington DC’s Sporting Shock Doctrine: By Dave Zirin

Posted in Blogroll, Dave Zirin on April 1st, 2008 by Mizzo

Mizz - I thought of Starting Five when I wrote this.

In struggle and sports,
Dave Z

Thanks DZ.

Folks sorry for the delay. I found my geek glasses, rolled up my sleeves and resolved the problem my damn self. Interview with Justice B. Hill of MLB.com posted tomorrow (4/3). Justice definitely schooled me on some baseball history.

-Mizzo

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Ryan Zimmerman (center) is mobbed after blasting walk off game winner the night Washington’s new park opened

So much for the house that Woodstein built. Rarely has the coverage of an event been so pandering, so utterly absent of objectivity than the Washington Post’s coverage of the debut of the Washington National’s new stadium.

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