Dave Zirin

This week, we speak to the great best-selling author Dr. Eddie Glaude about his new book, . We also speak to Hoops Savant Arya Shirazi about the Knicks-Spurs NBA finals.

Incredibly, we are marking the 10th anniversary of the passing of “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali.

My beloved New York Knicks—the team of my youth, the team of my life—have won 13 straight playoff games and are up 2-0 in the best of seven NBA finals against the San Antonio Spurs.

No nation has ever cast a shadow over the World Cup quite like the United States, the primary host of the 2026 games.

Before Wednesday night's NBA Finals game between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, one fan burned sage outside of New York City's Madison Square Garden.

The World Cup kicks off this week: 48 teams, 104 matches, and three countries. Like nothing else humanity has conjured, the tournament unites the attention of the world.

This week, we speak to hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the New York Knicks' first championship in 53 years.

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Mamdani’s Knicks speech was exhilarating, but we can’t let these kinds of spectacles prevent us from pressuring politicians to do better.

Dave Zirin on writing the life of Howard Zinn–and why his legacy points the way forward at the country’s semiquincentennial.