sportswriter. tough job. lot of shootouts at the computer? did you talk to your mom, robert? in the garage all day, i'm the only one she has to talk to. at least the buzz saw has an off switch. what are you doing in your pajamas? oh, dad, it's a little early for woodworking, isn't it? not for me. i never felt so alive. you know the satisfaction of doing something with your own 2 hands? i'm imagining it right now. i love the big book of hobbies. best gift you ever gave me. oh, oh, hey, where's the drill? in the garage. frank: great, great. thanks. [humming ride of the valkyries] [telephone rings] hello. hello. oh, hi. it's ruth green from 2 doors down. ahem. yeah? oh, yeah, we heard the sawing, too. [frank humming loudly] uh-huh. yeah, that's him singing. uh-huh. oh. ok, well, i'll discuss it with ray. yeah. thanks for calling, ruth. bye-bye. oh, great. now the neighbors want to come over here tonight to discuss your parents. discuss my parents? this is so embarrassing. she actually said, "your family." like i have anything to do with it. who are these people to discuss my par

so, ray, still doing that sportswriting thing? yeah. tell them about all the awards you won this year. all right. come on, dad. awards! wow! who would have made that bet, huh? what? nothing personal, but you had the biggest head i'd ever seen on a kid. it was huge! freakish. we used to get calls from the circus. all right. are we gonna play cards, or are we gonna make fun of me all night? don't worry, kid. we got plenty of time for both. [hacking cough] [hacking cough] ladies and gentlemen, the phlegmtones. i'll, uh... i'll make a bet that's as big as my head. what are you doing, dad? i'm stacking your chips. stack your own chips, dad. all 3 of 'em. you're bluffing, raymond. i call. you call? you better call a doctor. full house: queens over 8s. sorry, guys. i'm in the zone. you're not supposed to win all the money. yeah, well, perhaps i have an unfair advantage. all night, i've been able to read the reflection of your cards off your shiny noggins. hey, hey, a little respect. don't worry. the kid's done winning. it's time for a man's ga

he's been called "the best sportswriter in the united states." the reporter who, you may remember, challenged the president of bridgestone firestone on whether his product should be the "official tire sponsor" of the super bowl while the company was fighting a lawsuit for allegedly using child labor in liberia. zirin's the first sportswriter in the long history of "the nation" magazine. he hosts sirius xm radio's popular show "edge of sports." and he's written several provocative, even scathing books on sports and society, including, "bad sports: how owners are ruining the games we love," and this his most recent, "game over: how politics has turned the sports world upside down." oh, yes, utne reader named dave zirin one of the "50 visionaries who are changing the world." welcome to the show. >> oh, it's great to be here. >> you go back a long way with your chronicling of sports. how did sports grab you? >> well, i mean, i grew up in new york city just an absolute sports freak. i mean, i memorized statistics, i followed all those great new york c

but you know that's not all of today this morning there was an excellent story in the nation by sportswriter david xyron about you know not just mosques and community organizations and you know student groups across the northeast being infiltrated and spied upon by the n.y.p.d. but sports activities you know the n.y.p.d. set up these soccer leagues and a cricket cop and guess who came to it it was it was arabs and so on and it became a source for monitoring people and recording what they were doing i mean this is what this country has become today you're right it's unfair to say the bear susceptible to islamophobia i mean they probably are just using it as a tool to just blanket lease. you know road of civil liberties here it's almost been too much credit as well the phobia to an extent is something kind of many on the left tend to associate with conservatism but really this type of demonization spitting on partisan as you point out you talk about something called the liberal islamophobia can you expand on what that is yes i mean basically if you understand islam as not simply being restrict

but you know that's not all of today this morning there was an excellent story in the nation by sportswriter david xyron about you know not just mosques and community organizations and you know student groups across the northeast being infiltrated and spied upon by the n.y.p.d. but sports activities you know the n.y.p.d. set up these soccer leagues and a cricket cop and guess who came to it it was it was arabs and so on and it became a source for monitoring people and recording what they were doing i mean this is what this country has become today you're right it's unfair to say that they're susceptible to islamophobia i mean they probably are just using it as a tool to just blanket lease. you know road of civil liberties here that was going to much credit as well the phobia to an extent is something kind of many on the left tend to associate with conservatism but really this type of demonization is fairly nonpartisan as you point out when you talk about something called the liberal islamophobia can you expand on what that is yes i mean basically if you understand islamophobia as not simply

the freelance sportswriter in new york city.tle bit intimidated by the market. >> a little skeptical. charles: you write a sports blog for the boston red sox and you live in new york and you are afraid of the stock market? >> i am skeptical. charles: why are you skeptical? >> i have lived long enough to see the ups and downs. it seems like people who really experience success in the market tends to be people on the inside of the market. a limited amount of very wealthy people in this country and that number is shrinking. a vast number of people kind of struggling charles: don't you find it ironic to a people who have made money during the great recession are the top 1%, don't you know most of em have their money in the stock's that you can buy the same stocks that they own? >> but there is very little mobility within the classes of the country right now. i think it is because people who buy stock and make the big money are already having money to begin with. charles: most of the ople it depends on thetudy, i have studied this a

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roger goodell, "the washington post," several noted sportswriters now.g. are we at a tipping point now? is there change afoot? >> we're certainly reaching a tipping point. let's talk about why we're reaching that tipping point. the number one reason is that native american voices themselves are finally part of this discussion. you mentioned the united nation radio ads. they're going to be picketing at lambeau field this weekend and they're going to bring banners and signs inside the stadium as well. when roger goodell says if this is offending even one person, we need to take it seriously and you have people stepping forward and saying, you know what, actually, it does offend me that on the highest possible cultural platform, an nfl team is named after a racial slur, that is going to create the kind of atmosphere that could lead to the changing of the name. >> dan snyder, the team's owner, quoted as saying, never, you can use caps, closed quote. what if anything would motivate snyder to seriously consider changing a name? and is there a compromise at all

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zirin's the first sportswriter in the long history of "the nation" magazine. he hosts sirius xm radio's popular show "edge of sports." and he's written several provocative, even scathing books on sports and society, including, "bad sports: how owners are ruining the games we love," and this his most recent, "game over: how politics has turned the sports world upside down." oh, yes, utne reader named dave zirin one of the "50 visionaries who are changing the world." welcome to the show. >> oh, it's great to be here. >> you go back a long way with your chronicling of sports. how did sports grab you? >> well, i mean, i grew up in new york city just an absolute sports freak. i mean, i memorized statistics, i followed all those great new york city teams in the '80s, the mets, knicks, unbelievable. my room was a shrine to these people. i mean, folks like darryl strawberry, keith hernandez, lawrence taylor. and i never really thought about or cared about politics very much. and that really changed for me in 1996 when i was in college in minnesota. at the time, there

i've had this life as a sportswriter. and the stories just keep on coming.on these books appeal to these kids from 10 till high school is they're about things that i think matter to kids, which are loyalty and friendship. if you're not a good teammate, you're not going to do very well in one of my books. >> by that reasoning, mike should be writing for nonenglish speakers. >> great. >> greatest ever columnist for nonenglish speakers. >> the book is "qb1." >> off sunday's giants' broncos' game, it's clearly not about the manning brothers. >> okay, okay, okay. >> wow. >> had a bad day. >> mike lupica, great to have you, and thank you for your piece in "the daily news" today. appreciate that. >>> still ahead, she says they borrowed each other's ideas and bought like dresses. delia ephron joins us with her new memoir where she discusses life, love, and her late sister, norah. ♪ as your life changes, fidelity is there for your personal economy, helping you readjust along the way, refocus as careers change and kids head off to college, and revisit your investments