let's bring in dave zirin sports editor for the nation. author of "game over" how politics has turned the sports world upside down. i'm grateful to you for joining us tonight. thank you so much for being here. >> great to be here, john. >> john: what were your thoughts initially when you heard about a bombing like this at such an historic and popular sporting event? >> my first thought was that this is an attack on the very idea that we could have such a thing as collective space. you know, the occupy movement of 2011, if nothing else, was about the idea that we could re-claim in our increasingly privatized country the idea of a public commons where people could gather together and speak about things that they care about and air grievances. the attack on the boston marathon is about attacking the very concept that we can come together collectively in an open space. and there was any event that a person could attack, that would also attack that concept, it would be the boston marathon. think about it for a second. it is called the boston ma

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we conclude with dave zirin who is sports columnist for the nation magazine.s riding yesterday as soon as this took place, covering both sports and politics. your thoughts? >> first, prayer's for the people in boston, baghdad, in mogadishu who are suffering today. second, i think people have to realize an attack on the boston marathon is really an attack not boston or the nine states, but on the world. we have a tendency in this country to call our national champions world champions. here's this boston that -- marathon the sounds of provincial, but it comprises people from 96 countries. the world record holders for the men and women are both in sub- saharan africa. over 20,000 people compete. you can speak to people around the world where part of this global marathon community and they know heartbreak hill is the fourth hill in newton that is so difficult to go over. they know when you run past wellesley college, for example, the chairs can be so loud you cannot even hear out of your own ears. they know the boston marathon actually mean something. it is very c