Not Just A Game - Trailer #1 - Available on DVD

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Not Just a Game
Power, Politics & American Sports

We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play." But according to Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin, this notion is just flat-out wrong. Not Just a Game, the powerful new documentary based on Zirin's bestselling book The People's History of Sports, argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the center of some of the major political debates and struggles of our time. In a fascinating tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly of American sports culture, Zirin first traces how American sports have glamorized militarism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, then excavates a largely forgotten history of rebel athletes who stood up to power and fought for social justice beyond the field of play. The result is as deeply moving as it is exhilarating: nothing less than an alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played.

Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin is the bestselling author of five books, the sports editor of The Nation magazine, and the host of Sirius XM Satellite's popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. His blog The Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country. He is also a columnist for SLAM Magazine, The Progressive, and Sports Illustrated online, and his writing has appeared in numerous other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Zirin has also brought his blend of sports and politics to multiple television programs, including ESPN's Outside the Lines, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's Morning Joe, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, and Democracy Now with Amy Goodman. His latest book, Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love - which Naomi Klein described as an "original and scathing look at how America works" - has just been released from Scribner.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• MEF
• Media Education Foundation
• Sports
• Politics
• Dave Zirin
• Athletes
• Jackie Robinson
• Muhammad Ali
• Billie Jean King
• Tommie Smith
• John Carlos

[wanttogotoengland]

Absolutely loved this piece.

[ostifari]

@censorama I saw it too in the US on RT news will it be on again? It was amazing

[censorama]

I saw it today and it is AWESOME!

[youtubep2k6]

looks great!