Dave Zirin writes a great weekly column called Edge of Sports, providing his perspective on politics, culture, sports, and everything in between. This week, he teams up with Philly-based journalist Daniel Denvir to cover the Sarah Palin appearance at the Wachovia Center. Here are two snippets:
You cannot make this up. Sarah Palin, the best-known hockey mom in the United States, gets booed Saturday at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game. And the game is played, of all places, at the Wachovia Center. It's all over YouTube: failing candidate, failed bank as corporate sponsor, the kind of anger that cannot be scripted.
Responsibility for this failed political charade starts and ends with Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider, a big-time Republican donor who invited Palin on the mistaken assumption that she would burnish the brands of the sport and his team. This is yet another example why hockey is the worst-marketed game on the planet. It's like inviting PETA to a barbecue.
Head over to The Nation and read the whole thing.