2 Threaded Spouts
This section of last night’s email from Columbia’s President is a perfect distillation of liberalism: rhetorical gestures to freedom, rights, and care underwritten by the direct coercive threat of violence. It’s all there.
08:26 AM - Apr 24, 2024
3 Threaded Spouts
We 300+ academics and researchers urge the NCAA to refrain from further impeding transgender athletes from accessing NCAA sports by discriminating against and marginalizing this minute group of athletes based on their identities.
t.co/giHr5syrR8
t.co/giHr5syrR8
08:24 AM - Apr 24, 2024
08:23 AM - Apr 24, 2024
This is incredibly antisemitic in that it entirely dilutes and contorts the meaning of pogrom such that actual histories of anti-Jewish violence are erased… all in the name of very real and ongoing genocide today.
08:22 AM - Apr 24, 2024
Some news.
Our book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* now has a cover and is available for preorder in all formats.
Please do that.
https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
Our book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* now has a cover and is available for preorder in all formats.
Please do that.
https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
08:40 AM - Apr 11, 2024
NEW *OPEN ACCESS* ARTICLE in Social Science and Medicine - Qualitative Research in Health coauthored with Derek Silva:
"'The coaches always make the health decisions': Conflict of interest as exploitation in power five college football"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j....
"'The coaches always make the health decisions': Conflict of interest as exploitation in power five college football"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j....
12:29 PM - Feb 17, 2024
Just days after a professor of gender studies was stabbed. This is the thinnest plausible deniability.
04:59 PM - Jul 02, 2023
This testimony from the U. of Waterloo stabbing underlines the fact that it is pretty clear that virulent, violent transphobia has become a core tenet of "normal Conservative" politics today.
https://globalnews.ca/news...
https://globalnews.ca/news...
04:43 PM - Jun 30, 2023
EOS Ep. 114: The Sport Management Episode, P1
We are joined by Chen Chen to explain and interrogate the political economy and epistemology of sports management as a disciplinary project intimately linked to the reproduction of capitalism.
https://t.co/KlyQlLvF5t
We are joined by Chen Chen to explain and interrogate the political economy and epistemology of sports management as a disciplinary project intimately linked to the reproduction of capitalism.
https://t.co/KlyQlLvF5t
10:14 AM - Jun 30, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
My partner Jen Selk has a new and amazing poetry collection called *Landmarks & Beacons* and you should really buy it.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/a...
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/a...
01:05 PM - Jun 25, 2023
9 Threaded Spouts
The discursive project of fascism is to convince you that that power dynamics are upside-down. Dominant groups and people are ‘oppressed.’ Marginalized people are in fact dominant ‘oppressors.’
The beneficiaries are the elite of the capitalist class.
The beneficiaries are the elite of the capitalist class.
07:34 AM - Jun 21, 2023
End of Sport Episode 112: Black Ball
Theresa Runstedtler joins to discuss her work documenting the history of the NBA as a prism for understand race, representation and political economy in the United States.
https://theendofsport.podb...
Theresa Runstedtler joins to discuss her work documenting the history of the NBA as a prism for understand race, representation and political economy in the United States.
https://theendofsport.podb...
09:45 AM - Jun 16, 2023
Did you know that Canada *still* has a men-only golf course, one that happens to be the nation’s highest-ranked course?
10:48 AM - Jun 13, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
Trans participation in sport is a (bullshit) 'commonsense' way of introducing a potentially genocidal war on trans folk. Thus, regardless of whether you accept premises around 'fairness in sport,' the only fairness that matters is the right of trans people to exist as themselves.
07:44 AM - Jun 05, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
Despite the obfuscatory attempts of the N.B. Minister of Education to suggest otherwise, predicating the use of a child's preferred name and pronouns on parental consent *is* a form of coercion with potentially dangerous consequences.
10:25 AM - Jun 02, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
Nothing to see here except a former college football player recalling the time he had FOURTEEN "stingers" in a *single* game.
[from manuscript of *The End of College Football* co-authored with Derek Silva]
[from manuscript of *The End of College Football* co-authored with Derek Silva]
08:30 AM - May 25, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
The Premier of New Brunswick is taking a page out of the US fascist playbook and weaponizing trans participation in women's sport.
https://t.co/2lMDsQPIWX
https://t.co/2lMDsQPIWX
07:49 AM - May 25, 2023
absolutely wild that ESPN, in a story about why this announcer was *fired for saying a racist slur*, nevertheless forgives him by insinuating it was an accident
also, just say "RACIST"
https://www.espn.com/mlb/s...
also, just say "RACIST"
https://www.espn.com/mlb/s...
07:37 AM - May 23, 2023
On the plantation dynamics of college football.
[From *The End of College Football: Exploitation and Harm in the Academy and on the Gridiron* co-authored with Derek Silva]
[From *The End of College Football: Exploitation and Harm in the Academy and on the Gridiron* co-authored with Derek Silva]
01:07 PM - May 15, 2023
Disconcerting piece by an undergrad on how students are using AI in ways that undermine the pedagogical goals of university writing.
https://t.co/Og3aR0MYBq
https://t.co/Og3aR0MYBq
06:48 AM - May 15, 2023
This is and has always been the whole story. Sport is simply never as important as basic human rights.
07:21 AM - May 14, 2023
The physical and emotional cost of college football is just too high.
[From interviews for *The End of College Football* co-authored with Derek Silva]
[From interviews for *The End of College Football* co-authored with Derek Silva]
08:15 AM - May 12, 2023
Anthony Davis should not being playing the rest of this series at least. They can call it a 'concussion' or they can choose not to, but the man suffered head trauma.
https://www.espn.com/nba/s...
https://www.espn.com/nba/s...
10:16 AM - May 11, 2023
A former college football player describes being media trained to mention God in interviews.
[From interviews for *The End of College Football* w/
Derek Silva]
[From interviews for *The End of College Football* w/
Derek Silva]
08:48 AM - May 11, 2023
This is really bad framing from the NFLPA. The point is not that college athletes shouldn't be compared to prisoners. The point is that *neither* college athletes OR prisoners should be compelled to work without a wage.
04:55 PM - May 09, 2023
Bob Huggins needs to be censured. No representative of a university should be making comments like this.
https://www.espn.com/mens-...
https://www.espn.com/mens-...
07:55 PM - May 08, 2023
this remains an all-time most absurd headline (let alone during a pandemic)
https://www.sportsbusiness...
https://www.sportsbusiness...
11:59 AM - May 04, 2023