dave zirin joins us from washington, d.c.. latest article is called "the streets of san francisco: 'super bowl city' meets tent city." thank you so much. your response to all that happened last night? >> there is on the field and off the field. on the field, yet the denver broncos exhibit one of the great defensive performances in super bowl history. off the field, what you had was really an unprecedented sweep of the homeless before the super bowl contest. every super bowl in the host city has a narrative that exist outside the game. in new orleans, was, how will the city recover after hurricane katrina? in new york, a was the sweep and arrest and russman of sex workers before the big game that took place in the meadowlands. in san francisco, the fact you have this city of only 800,000 people that has a homeless population of 10,000, 61% of the homeless in san francisco were working at the time they lost their homes. and one third of these 10,000 people are children. and yet the response from san francisco mayor edley was com

joining us from silver spring is dave zirin. sports editor. also, the author of the book "brazil's dance with the devil - the world cup, and a fight for democracy." thank you for joining us. f.i.f.a. plagued with corruption, is there anyone at this point that could clean up the organization. >> no, no one is pledging to clean up the organization. they are pledging lip service, points of agreement about addressing future concerns about human rights, opening up the bidding process, making it more transparent. the thing about f.i.f.a., they have not earned trust. and you'd have to be so poly anaish, you'd have to have not a single ounce of cynicism so accept f.i.f.a.'s word at face value, we'll have to see how they do the bidding process, the concerns for human rights. early returns as far as who is putting themselves up there, it's like twiddle dumb versus tweedle dumber versus the dumbest. it's not a good collection of folks. >> you mention the human rights violation, it happened when the sporting events take place. you were in brazil and wrote