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Game on: Pros and big-league politics

Howard Cosell called it "rule No. 1 of the Jockocracy": the idea that sports and politics must never mix. This last election season though, that iron wall separating the two worlds wasn't merely breached, it was flattened.

By Dave Zirin

November 19, 2008

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