<div> </div> <div align=center><<<FORWARD WIDELY>>></div> <div align=center> </div> <div align=center><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME</SPAN><BR>The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports<BR>wiht author Dave Zirin<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Wednesday, June 27th, 7 pm</SPAN> <BR>Brookline Booksmith <BR>279 Harvard Street<BR><SPAN id=lw_1182539107_3 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em"> <div>Boston</div></SPAN><BR>617-566-6660</div> <div align=center><A href="mailto:events@brooklinebooksmith.com">events@brooklinebooksmith.com</A></div> <div align=center><BR>At the intersection of sports and politics… <BR>You'll find heroes.<BR>You'll find villains.<BR>You'll find oppression.<BR>You'll find protest.<BR>You'll find a platform.<BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">And you'll find Dave Zirin.</SPAN> <BR><BR>"If you're
a sports fan you'll love this book. If you're politically active, you'll love this book. If you're a politically active sports fan, you've found your bible." <BR>—Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor & publisher, <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Nation</SPAN><BR><BR>"In sportswriting, attitude is easy. But Zirin's also got razor smarts, rapier wit, and, most of all, a rebel's large heart...you'll never see sports the same way again. <BR>—Jeff Chang, author, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation<BR><BR>"Welcome to the Terrordome is the sports primer for our time."<BR>—legendary sports writer Robert Lipsyte, <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN id=lw_1182539107_5 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">New York Times</SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR>"Welcome to the Terrordome." <SPAN id=lw_1182539107_6 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Public Enemy</SPAN>'s 1990 hip-hop anthem was a call to arms
against a world—and a popular culture—gone mad. A real Terrordome emerged in the New Orleans Superdome in the horrifying aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—a gruesome collision of sports and politics as thousands sat stranded in a sports arena where most could never have afforded even the cheapest ticket. <BR><BR>Today the "Terrordome" is a twenty-first century sports world that is frightening, ridiculous, horrifying, and inspiring…all before the next commercial break. From <SPAN id=lw_1182539107_7 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Don Imus</SPAN>' racist comments to the inspiring, yet mixed, legacy of <SPAN id=lw_1182539107_8 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Muhammad Ali</SPAN>; from the stormy marriage between hip-hop and the NBA to <SPAN id=lw_1182539107_9 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Zinedine Zidane</SPAN>'s head butt—it will get you talking and thinking.
<BR><BR>*<BR><BR>Dave Zirin is the author of the widely acclaimed book What's My Name, Fool? (Haymarket Books) and writes the weekly column "Edge of Sports" (<A href="http://edgeofsports.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399> <SPAN id=lw_1182539107_10>edgeofsports.com </SPAN></FONT></A>). He writes a regular column for Nation and Slam magazine, and has appeared as a sports commentator on ESPN TV and radio, CBNC, WNBC, Democracy Now!, Air America, Radio Nation, and Pacifica. <A href="http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin05172007.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN id=lw_1182539107_11></SPAN></A><BR><BR>*<BR><BR>Welcome to the Terrordome<BR>The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports <BR>by Dave Zirin<BR>Foreword by <SPAN id=lw_1182539107_12 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; HEIGHT: 1em">Chuck D</SPAN><BR>ISBN 978-1931859417 | $16.00 | Trade Paper<BR><A href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/"
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