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A podcast on capitalist sport, labor, and justice for end times. Hosted by @derekcrim.bsky.social, @johannamellis.bsky.social, and @nkalamb.bsky.social. Patreon: t.co/cPzWKKoVLI

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“What I found was that the… monsters, the gang leaders, the drug dealers, they have more compassion than our coaches have. They are more human than our coaches are. So these monsters of these dark alleys will show you compassion and concern and care before your coaches would.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Long awaited episode with one of our favs.

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Listen to a Palestinian athlete discuss what it it is like and what it means to compete under these conditions.

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The complete massacre of athletic figures and destruction of athletic facilities in Gaza is yet another facet of this atrocity.

Israel simply should not be permitted to compete in the Olympics or any other international competition.

www.newarab.com/news/palesti...

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Derek Silva's avatar Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social
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I can’t begin to describe how important this episode is.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Absolutely incredible conversation with Charlotte Phillips about what it’s like to play for the Palestine Women’s Soccer team in this moment. She holds nothing back.

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🧵 on football, for all you fans out there.

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Alex P. 👹's avatar Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social
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my wife got a concussion once for about six months, "moving your head slightly wrong" or even "thinking about the wrong kind of thing" (language learning, in her case) would lead to pain, exhaustion, disorientation forcing someone to play football under those conditions is straight-up torture

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“In a 1973 letter, NCAA lawyer Donald Wilson wrote to the head of the body’s football rules committee that it should ignore warnings from medical experts of the dangers of head-first tackling because, “In my opinion, any heed paid to their suggestions will destroy present-day football as we know it”

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This is beautiful to see and something I’ve long awaited: the professional athlete unions acting in substantive solidarity with campus athletic workers, in this case by supporting the Dartmouth MBB union before the NLRB.

www.sportico.com/law/analysis...

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“I believe that TBIs and football are synonymous, and tackle football as it exists right now is not capable of being played without the risks to your brain." - Jabo Burrow, former P5 OL

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Universities should not subject their students to brain damage

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Derek Silva's avatar Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social
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As we discuss in our forthcoming book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, head injuries are a defining feature of college football, just as it is an inextricable aspect of the tackle version of the sport at every level." Our Latest in @guardian.

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"The game is inherently dangerous for your brain and the reality is that the sport has spent the last few decades purposefully pushing that fact under the rug. It pains me to say that." - Jabo Burrow New argument for the abolition of college football just dropped.

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The legal dynamics of college sport have become incredibly confusing. Fortunately, Michael McCann provides a clear primer on what has happened and what is likely to come.

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Hey, remember that time everyone’s favorite Senator Tommy Tuberville cut a starter for Auburn without telling him and he found out on tv? (Quote from former Auburn player Tyler Siskey)

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Dante Bichette Jr.: “During my youth baseball years, I was being beaten either during or after bad performances by my father.”

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This above all is the goal of the NCAA, conferences, + universities: to deny campus athletic workers employee status and it’s attendant protections, bargaining rights, and leverage from potential labor action. If Congress legislates it, they are utterly failing athletes.

www.on3.com/os/news/hous...

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Gambling is causing an occupational health and safety crisis for athletic workers and the leagues they work for and sports media complex are entirely responsible because, as always, in capitalism value comes first and the worker might as well be dead at the end of the day.

t.co/0kXATZZc1D

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Think that no college athletes are participating in the encampment movement? Think again. 👇

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ROBIN D. G. KELLEY?????????????????

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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I have literally never been more excited to share an episode of @endofsportpod.bsky.social with you. Remember that incredible @bostonreview.bsky.social article about the UCLA encampment from a couple weeks ago? Robin Kelley walks us through it and situates within the broader movement.

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lmao I limited myself--no books at all hahahahaha

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