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Game Over by Dave Zirin

Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down BY Dave Zirin. New Press, The. Paperback, 240 pages. $18.
The cover of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

Dave Zirin’s new book hovers over the world of sports, galloping liberally from the players to owners, from economic inequality to gender inequality. He argues that politics “has returned [to sports] with a vengeance.” And he insists that “the stakes couldn’t be higher.”