we are joined from silver spring maryland by dave zyron, author of game over. dave, good to see you. happy new year, what do you think is going ohappen at sochi, will we see a john los and tommy smith moment this time for the lgbt community? >> we'll see something at sochi, i have no doubt about that whatsoever. will it look like 1968, will it be people raising hands in the air? will it be the color of somebody's finger nails? could it be billie jean king part of the delegation from the united states that will be there saying something or doing something? could it be something that happens off the athletic field, several marches at sochi by activists? >> let's talk about the world cup, do you think brazil with all the problems it's been having and the protests down there will it be able to put on a successful tournament? >> it will put on a successful tournament, no doubt about it, if there's something brazil can do is be able to put on a successful party. how militarized will the country have to be? the security preparations wow, it's going to be wild. there a

dave zyron joins us to give us his predictions for 2013. -- 2014. why. >> today's data dive rings in the number. about a million people who will have about 10,000 pounds of confetti dropped on them by midnight. about a billion is expected to watch the ball drop. since 1911 times square has celebrated all but two years during world war ii. are direct view to watch the ball and your savings drop. new year's eve parties at clubs are expensive the average tab at clubs cost $75. champagne flies off the shelf. celebrations stretch around the world from another million people lining sydney's harbor in australia to the four day celebration in edinborough, scotland. in paris, france the city of lights, revelers line the champs elyse. >> one in four will fail within the week, less than half of them will keep their resolutions six weeks later. 22% of those surveyed said they expect to be fast asleep before midnight. coming up, what will the year ahead bring for sports world? we'll check everything from the olympics to the world cup to american football. >> sta

suggesting that bae is responsible for his situation, for more i'm joined by al jazeera contributors dave zyron, author of game over, great to see you dave. personally i'd be happy to never hear the name dennis rodman again in my life. he insists he is doing basketball diplomacy by going to north korea but he refuses to help an american who is in prison there. is what he's doing making any way or are we waisting time talking about him? >> we are not waisting time talking about him. we are in fact talking about north korea. yet it has been through the news. the name kenneth bae is a trending topic why is that? because dennis rodman has used his cultural capital to go over there and that's an unintended consequence that we cannot ignore. >> an unintended consequence but it makes dennis get this publicity and who knows what kind of money is he getting from the north koreans. by going there he is somehow validating the very brutal regime. >> he is burnishing or buttressing a regime that has flourished for 60 years. you can't have it both ways. we have a country that has a profound ignorance about n

let's bring in dave zyron, host of edge of sports radio. joins us from silver spring maryland. dave good to see you. a-rod never tested positive, of course neither did lance armstrong. did he get what he deserved? >> well, that all depends on your perspective. if i'm a yankees fan i absolutely think he got what he deserved because it means i get $25 million off the team's payroll and perhaps getting out from under the $87 million that they still owe him and weighing on the franchise like the boneless elephant in the bronx. to be able to suspend players for as long as the commissioner sees fit i'm also for it. if i think it needs scorched earth to expunge players from the game. if i think a strong baseball player's union is a good thing then it rings very, very wrong. first offense should be 50 games, major league baseball wanted 211, and he end under with 162. it gets them out from under his contract for a full season. >> he's suing baseball, he's suing the union, saying the union didn't do enough for him but now the union has come back and is complaining that baseball is piling

we are joined from silver spring maryland, by dave zyron sport editor for "the nation." great to have you on the show. sherwin admitted it was immature and wasn't a classy interview. he had just made a huge play to send his team to the super bowl and said he was disrespected by the receive are. why a big fuss. is it all about the way he said it. >> first and foremost it's more about the form of what he said than the content. he didn't say anything that inflammatory or political or third rail. it's not like he was giving his opinions on the israeli palestine conflict. he got up there and did things we don't see. he did not put us to sleep. i was watching the game with a die-hard plan. they had left my house. there's usually nothing to see after the game. what he did was he looked into the camera, spoke like he was in a wwe promo. then, of course, when the trolls got online, it transformed it. >> let's talk about that. there was a huge wave of the treats directed at sherwin after the rant. they called hum every name in the book. here is what he had to say about the worst o