In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/in-whose-honor-american-indian-mascots-in-sports
This groundbreaking 1997 PBS documentary launched the movement against American Indian mascots to a new level, getting reviewed in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Tribune, and even...
Nieman Reports | Frank Deford: Sports Writing in the Internet Age
►http://nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=102524
In the spring of 2010 Frank Deford, a senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated, author, and commentator on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” delivered the Red Smith Lecture in Journalism at the University of Notre Dame. He called his talk “Sportswriter Is One Word” (PDF), an at times humorous, always insightful rendering of “the carnival I hitched a ride onto in 1962.” For close to half a century he has written stories about athletes and the games they play, and now, as he assesses the technological changes in how sportswriters do their job, he provocatively states that “The end of journalism as we know it is only the beginning of better things for sports journalism. With two caveats.” An excerpt follows:
Je ne m’attendais pas à lire une analyse originale de la révolution égyptienne dans Sports Illustrated, mais voilà, tout peut arriver : Dave Zirin soutient le rôle des clubs de supporters de football dans les mouvements socio-politiques.
Soccer clubs central to ending Egypt’s "Dictatorship of Fear" - Dave Zirin - SI.com
►http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/dave_zirin/01/31/egypt.soccer/index.html?xid=twitter_share
As soccer writer James Dorsey wrote this week, “The involvement of organized soccer fans in Egypt’s anti-government protests constitutes every Arab government’s worst nightmare. Soccer, alongside Islam, offers a rare platform in the Middle East, a region populated by authoritarian regimes that control all public spaces, for the venting of pent-up anger and frustration.”
Dorsey’s statement proved prophetic on Sunday when it was announced that Libya’s government had instructed the Libyan Football Federation to ban soccer matches for the foreseeable future. Sources in the government said that this was done to head off the mere possibility that Egypt’s demonstrations could spill over the border. The fear was that soccer could be the artery that would connect the challenge to Mubarak to a challenge to former U.S. foe turned ally Moammar Gadhafi.
Du coup, je signale que Dave Zirin avait écrit un (bon) article justifiant le boycott des rencontres sportives avec les équipes israéliennes après l’attaque de la flotille de la paix :
►http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-zirin/flotilla-fallout-are-team_b_598512.html
International sport, to awkwardly paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, is politics by other means. It’s used explicitly by all nations as a tool to demonstrate diplomatic goodwill. But in the context of such a visceral crime, international diplomacy morphs into little more than international propaganda and sporting Stratego. If a team refuses to play Israel because they don’t want to be party to the public relations objectives of a state engorged with violence, then that is nothing to be “saddened” about.