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Commie Sporting League: The Commie Sporting League is a
project of Youth for Socialist Action. Activism is a very serious business,
but there's no reason why activists can't have fun too! For that reason
we've set up the CSL to organize various sporting and social events for
activists, both young and old. Below is some info on the Commie Sporting
League, upcoming CSL events, coverage of the Commie Sporting League in the
news, and links to other progressive sports pages.
What the CSL Does: Since the CSL was started back in 2002
we've organized regular commie soccer games, volleyball matches, target
shooting outings, sledding parties, amateur boxing matches and a couple of
basketball games. That’s what we’ve
done so far, but we’re always open to new ideas!
Upcoming
Commie Sporting Events:
 Duluth, MN – email Rose at howtogrowgods@yahoo.com for info.
Superior, WI – email Lucas at lucasdietscher@hotmail for info.
Ashland, WI – email Carl at sackc01@northland.edu for info.
The Commie
Sporting League in the News: You can't keep a good thing a secret! Here are a few links to
reports and news stories about the Commie Sporting League:
91.3 KUWS: on the CSL & Camp Class Struggle
Minnesota Public Radio on commie soccer
Anarchist Infoshop News coverage of commie soccer
UMD journalism student on commie soccer
Other
Progressive Sports Links:
Athletes
United for Peace
Edge of
Sports
Black
Sports Network
Pravda
BK - the only Marxist Leninist table hockey club in the world
Books on
Progressive Sports:
**NEW!** Complete book information, including
press contacts, book excerpts, photos, tour info and table of contents is
now available!
**NEW!** Visit www.edgeofsports.com to hear Dave Zirin on "On The Real"
with Chuck D!
What’s My Name, Fool? offers a no-holds-barred look at
the business of sports today. In humorous and accessible language, Zirin
shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and
exciting, features of American society.
"Beautifully illustrates the connection between sports, struggle,
politics, and resistance."
--Chuck D; Public Enemy
"Dave Zirin is an angry young man, and he's not
bashful about telling you why -- no quarter asked, no holds barred. In his
new book, What's My Name, Fool?, he calls out the many inequities he sees
on the level playing fields. It's good to read such an impassioned critic
taking sport to task in a manner we haven't heard in some time." -- Frank Deford
“Out from the greed, myths, freeloading, cover-ups,
censorships, and gouging of big time commercial sports comes the clear
voice, honest pen and vigilant eyes of David Zirin. Put this book down only
to pray, eat and sleep.” --Ralph
Nader
"I am a baseball fan, and I love this book. It is
so refreshing to have a sports writer who writes with such verve and
intelligence, who also has a social conscience,and who refuses to keep
those parts of his life separate. This is a rare contribution to social
history, something I have been looking for, a sports history which
understands how the issues of race and class are inextricable from the
world of sports." --Howard
Zinn, third baseman, switch hitter.
“The sports industry has long needed an alternative
voice, someone to rage away at issues of money, race, and celebrity. Dave
Zirin is that voice. He’s right about some things. He’s wrong about some
things. But on every issue, he writes with attitude, with edge, and with
humor. What’s My Name Fool is must reading.” -– Lester Munson, Sports Illustrated
Dave Zirin is that rarest of commodities in sports
writing: an original voice. His writing reveals the ever present but
ignored bridge between sports and struggle. What’s My Name, Fool? will be
loved by both Athletes who hate politics and activists who hate sports. As
for progressives who are closet sports fans, finally here is a book for
you. --Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San
Francisco BayView
"Dave Zirin's inspiring account of sports
nonconformists, from race rebels to antiwar athletes, is a halftime speech
for radicals. This book is a left uppercut to the solar plexus of the
sports industrial complex."
--Andrew Hsiao, former sports editor, The Village Voice, and senior
editor, The New Press
"Dave Zirin is America’s best
sportswriter." --Lee Ballinger,
associate editor of Rock & Rap Confidential
"Dave Zirin has an amazing talent for covering the sports and politics
beat. Ranging like a great shortstop, he scoops up everything! He profiles
the courageous and inspiring athletes who are standing up for peace and
civil liberties in this repressive age. A must read!" --Matthew Rothschild, editor, The
Progressive
"Zirin has unique wit, vast sports knowledge and delightful candor. It
is refreshing to see someone who can cut through the fluff and get to the
heart of any sports issue. You want sports with an edge? You picked the
right book."
--Ed DeMayo, CEO, Basketball.com
"When it comes to the intersection of sports and politics, Dave Zirin
is the wittiest and most engaging essayist writing today. This book belongs
on the shelves of all sports-lovers who believe that athletes are people,
too." --Bryan Sacks,
publisher, Breakaway Monthly
"Dave Zirin is one of the best young sportswriters in the country
today. I know of no other commentator on the world of sports who
effectively puts it all together the way Zirin does." --David Meggyesy, Western regional
director, NFL players Association
DAVE ZIRIN is editor of the Prince George’s Post (Maryland) and writes the
weekly column “Edge of Sports” (edgeofsports.com). He is a Senior Writer at
Basketball.com and has written for The Source and other publications on the
politics of sports.
Haymarket Books, ISBN 1-931859-20-5 Paperback 200 pgs. July 2005.
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