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in new york we're joined by dave zirin, sports columnist for "the nation" magazine and radio host.ne of his latest piece is, "dump the 'redskins' slur!" he has also written about "the nfl's bullied problem." first two clyde bellecourt, tell us what happened last night in minneapolis. >> first of all, my spirit name then by the greater is thunder before the storm. when i was born 77 years ago, i was not allowed to have an indian name. we cannot pray, sing, dance, carry on our traditional spiritual way of life. night, when the monumental walk took place in the heart of the indian community in south a thousandover mostly native people, some in full regalia from to show the beauty of our culture, went along with us and marched on the stadium. "r"ied banners saying the is no different than the "n" word. little red sambo has to go. though black sambo is gone, and now it is time for little red sambo to go. it is not really the names. it is not just the names. it is the behavior created when they get a little bit behind the washington team or cleveland, themstart hollering "scalp children

. >> dave zirin, sports editor, omar kelly, beat columnist for the south florida sun-sentinel. , guys. in your blog, dave, you wrote this. what makes a man? is it being a tough as nails, bar-fighting, woman-groping, n-bomb dropping gem like richie incognito or is it like jonathan martin who had the guts to break the locker room code of silence and after enduring a malicious attack on him by a teammate and having his sister threatened said he could not take it anymore? you just heard this described as a different workplace. but is this the nfl culture? >> i mean it's an nfl culture that varies from team to team. one of the toughest things about this story has been trying to disentangle what is inherently nfl. what is inherently there about the nfl locker room and what is particularly toxic about what has happened in miami. and i think it's worth figuring out what those differences are, so we can challenge what we don't like to change. first and foremost we've got to be clear. being an nfl football player, it's a union job. you're part of the afl-cio. you should not have to feel t

. >> dave zirin, we appreciate the time and the insight? >> my privilege. thank you. >> that's the dilemma that a lot of people are thinking. can you compare typical work places to locker rooms and professional sports? e sp especially in a violent sport. we will see what the league says. >> a lot of people are criticizing the players association for not speaking out sooner. >> absolutely. >> we will see how this plays out. michael, thank you. are you afraid of dinosaurs? >> no. how about in jurassic park? >> yes. >> check this out. they call him king of gore. the great uncle of the tyranasaurus rex he is about 10 million years older. the public got to see him for the first time at utah's natural history museum on wednesday. the olympic torch is taking a different path to the winter games in a rocket. >> liftoff in the spacecraft on a truly olympic leap. >> three astronauts took off earlier from kzakstan and on saturday will take the torch on the first space walk. it will not be lit for obvious reasons. a super typhoon struck the philippines. we are tracking

joining us to talk about this and more news from the sports world is al jazeera america contribute or dave zirin, host of age of sports radio and the author of "game over." dave, good to have you. turner field, state of t-of-the 1986 when it was built for the atlanta olympics, had a major renovation in 2005. they are major league baseball teams that are a century old. stadium? >> because it's there. it's there to be certain. in 1996, one of the braves' partners called turner field, said it was a stadium for the ages. i guess we now know an age lasts 16 years. this is actually an important story that goes well beyond the realm of sports. do you know this is the first time in 40 years a statiumed has gone from the city to the suburbs. that's actually very significant because for 40 years, we have seen these boon doings in city after city after city but the strat joe has been let's get out of the suburbs, into the city. it can cause some urban renewal, boost businesses around the stadium stadium. it can give back to the city. this is a different kind of strategy. the reason why they are doing it, o

zirin for so many years we seek the opinion of dave brandt a florida based policeman who specializes in they use. one of the people who did research on polygraph was the guy who is better known for creating the comic books wonder woman his name was marston he was a physician and he wrote comic books on the side and what's interesting if you know anything about wonder woman one of the tools that wonder woman had was called the lasso of truth where she would put a rope around the bad guy and that caused him to have to tell the truth well the lasso of truth that he uses is literally this the blood pressure cop that we used today that goes around the subject's arm sort of a misnomer the instrument is a polygraph instrument it's recording physiological data it doesn't detect lies any more than cardiogram detects heart attacks it's up to me to analyze the data that i record with a polygraph instrument to determine if the person is being truthful or deceptive as you see it rise to the line that's an increase in blood pressure ok so on this question here for example this was a controlled que