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Showing videos filed under: football
Kate Clinton: Social Notworking
April 11, 2011Kate Clinton examines the faces behind the new social networking--the brave new faces of a new media world that look very much like the same old faces of the same old media world.Dave Zirin: Fighting the NFL Lockout
March 4, 2011"It's not about dollars and cents, it's about owners telling players who is boss," says Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation, about the impending NFL lockout. Even Barack Obama has gotten into the act, though, writing off the labor dispute in professional football as "millionaires fighting billionaires" and ignoring the real factors in the fight, from the health risks and short careers the players face to the people who will be out of work if football doesn't go on--while the owners sign a TV contract that pays them even if there is no season.Dave Zirin, Micah Sifry, and the Military Budget
March 3, 2011"It's not about dollars and cents, it's about owners telling players who is boss," says Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation, about the impending NFL lockout. Even Barack Obama has gotten into the act, though, writing off the labor dispute in professional football as "millionaires fighting billionaires" and ignoring the real factors in the fight, from the health risks and short careers the players face to the people who will be out of work if football doesn't go on--while the owners sign a TV contract that pays them even if there is no season.Dave Zirin: The Super Bowl and Two Souls in Sports
February 5, 2011"Just as we would argue about cinema or theater or dance, progressives sometimes only see the bad and not the good," in sports, says Nation sports columnist and Edge of Sports radio host Dave Zirin. Just in time for the Super Bowl, Dave has a new documentary out, Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports, based on his book A People's History of Sports in the United States.Asmaa Mahfouz, Dave Zirin, We Women Warriors & Bradley Manning
February 4, 2011"As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope." Those are the words of Asmaa Mahfouz, one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, who took to the Internet to spread her message in the days leading up to the protests, which have spread across her country and led to President Mubarak announcing he will not run for reelection. As the protesters continue their fight to get Mubarak out sooner rather than later, we bring you Asmaa's words to remember how all of this got started.Ann Wright, Ari Berman & Karen Finney, and Dave Zirin
November 29, 2010"We were told as diplomats, 'Don't ever put anything in a cable you wouldn't want on the front page of a newspaper.' It shows that they're a lot of arrogant people, that the system itself wasn't checking itself," says Ann Wright, Retired United States Army Colonel and former State Department official, of the latest documents released from WikiLeaks. Meanwhile, several of the diplomatic cables released depict possibly illegal actions by the U.S. government, and Wright notes that the chances of anyone being held accountable are slim.Dave Zirin: Suspend Notre Dame Football
November 29, 2010It’s past time that the storied Notre Dame football squad had its program suspended. In a season of heartbreak and horror under new coach Brian Kelly, the Fighting Irish have more than earned what's known as the NCAA's dreaded "death penalty."GlobalGirl Media: Shooting the World Cup
June 17, 2010The World Cup continues to hold the world's fascination, from vuvuzela jokes to headline-grabbing rivalries, and we continue to bring you reports from GlobalGirl Media, training young women to report from the scene of the games in South Africa.Ed Pilkington, Your Environmental Road Trip & the World Cup
June 16, 2010The BP oil disaster has wreaked havoc on the Gulf of Mexico, but it's also having repercussions across the Atlantic. BP is one of Britain's largest companies, and pension funds invested in BP stock are taking a hit. Ed Pilkington has been covering the story here in the U.S. for the U.K.'s Guardian and has visited the Gulf to look at the spill.Dave Zirin: Why Does Glenn Beck Hate the World Cup?
June 15, 2010"Beck rejects soccer because his idealized “real America”—in all its monochromatic glory—rejects it as well." Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, says that and a whole lot more in his commentary on why Glenn Beck--and the rest of the Right--hates World Cup soccer.
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