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Assignment:
1. What is the nation-state that Zirin discusses being a large rival in the context of national ice hockey? Are there similar rivalries in sport today that bridge the contest with the politics of the nation?
2. Our author is very critical of the Reagan administration. What are some of the economic and social policies that Zirin critiques?
3. What is the economically mixed legacy of the 1984 LA Games?
4. What economic conditions that Bronx-based hip-hop artists were responding to, were being felt in many urban centers throughout the country?
5. What was the generational critique waged by Jim Brown in his 1989 autobiography, Out of Bounds?
6. Who is Martina Navritalova? How did she use her voice and platform to shed light on social inequities?
7. What type of abuse is chronicled among women athletes, particularly in subjectively judged sports during this period? Have these practices disappeared? improved? Explain.
8. If you were going to explain Bill Waddell's Gay Games to your oldest relatives, what or how would you explain that project? How was it similar and different from the modern Olympic movement?
9. Why are strikes difficult to maintain for long periods of time?
10. What does solidarity mean in the context of labor? Allyship?