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Index
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE - Relearning Roberto Clemente
Clemente: A Latino Jackie Robinson?
Clemente as a Player: Art, Not Science
His Era, Politics, and Roots
Dodgers Disgrace: Jim Crow vs. Brown Pride
The Pirates Get Good
Syndicato: Clemente Carries on King’s Legacy
El Noche Clemente
The World Series
Clemente’s Dream
Unnatural Disasters
Legacy
CHAPTER TWO - Béisbol: How the Major Leagues Eat Their Young
The Death of Super Mario
CHAPTER THREE - Soccer: The Perilous Practice of Political Projection
Learning from Soccer
Women, Soccer, and the United States
Soccer Today
Conversion in Chile
CHAPTER FOUR - The 2006 World Cup: The Politics of Play Personified
CHAPTER FIVE - The NBA and the Two Souls of Hip-hop
AI: Nothing Artificial
CHAPTER SIX - The Olympics: Gold, Guns, and Graft
Blair’s Olympiad
The Ghosts of Tlatelolco
Words from the Dark Genius
When Fists Are Frozen: The Statue of Tommie Smith and John Carlos
CHAPTER SEVEN - Barry Bonds Gonna Git Your Mama: When Steroids Attack!
What’s a Steroid?
DSHEA and the Den of Idiots
Sources of the Boom
Well Then, Why Use Them?
Steroids and the War on Drugs
Barry Bonds: The Juice and the Noose
So What Do We Do?
CHAPTER EIGHT - The Uses of Sports: How People in Power Exploit the Games
The Vicious Cycle
Disrobing the Emperors
CHAPTER NINE - The Way It Was, the Way It Is
CHAPTER TEN - In Their Own Words
Etan Thomas: From Baghdad to Death Row
Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet and Onto the Court
John Amaechi Doesn’t Care What You Think About His “Gayness”
Jeff Monson: Ultimate Fighter for Peace
The Slave Side of Sunday
The NBA Draft: Prom Night Gets Political
Imus, Sports, and the End of Silence
Marching In:
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