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From The Herald's Research Editor

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Sports and politics

Fascinating story in CounterPunch about NBA MVP Steve Nash and his anti-Iraq war statements. According to author Dave Zirin,

"Nash was the first high profile athlete to come out against Dick Cheney's "war of a generation" showing up at the 2003 All-Star game in 2003 wearing a T-shirt that read, "Shoot baskets not people."
...In a country where much of the media, and sports media, have been in a race to the right, Shaquille O'Neal would have been a more appealing choice. Shaq's main dream after basketball is to become a cop."

Zirin also comments on the recent column by The Herald's Dan Le Batard in which he speculated on race as a factor in the voting:

"If basketball writers were suckers for plucky Caucasians with gaudy assist numbers, John Stockton would have won TEN MVPs instead of zero."

posted by liz at 12:12 PM

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Elisabeth Donovan

Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to the field.

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