Entries from August 2009

August 24, 2009

Books of the Week – 8/24/09

A people’s history of sports in the United States : 250 years of politics, protest, people, and play

From thenewpress.com–
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting [...]