Dennis Brutus, 83 and still the baddest cat in town

Dave Zirin, one of my favorite sports columnists, on the wider implications of Dennis Brutus‘s refusal to be inducted into the South Africa Sports Hall of Shame, sorry, Fame.

Excerpt:

Sports Illustrated once called Brutus (who was prominent in the campaign to isolate apartheid-era South Africa from the world sporting community) as the “dark genius of dissent,” but Dennis Brutus is ominous only if you believe sports should be an unchallenged playground for racism and reaction.

Full op-ed in the Philadelphia Weekly, here.