special shoutout to that guy in uxbridge who REALLY cares about downtown Toronto bike lanes

It was an enormous honour for @derekcrim.bsky.social and I to receive the @nasssbsky.bsky.social Outstanding Book Award for 2024 for our book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game.*

The Football Association of Ireland has approved a resolution to submit a formal motion to UEFA to suspend Israel. www.reuters.com/sports/socce...

My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...

FIFA, the IOC, & essentially all world sports governing bodies are forever and irreparably shamed by their failure to ban Israel from international competition. They are complicit in the genocide by sportswashing it. Israeli Olympic Judoka literally wrote messages on artillery shells bound for Gaza.

In this open access peer-reviewed article, I and 21 of my sports studies colleagues argue that Israel is committing athleticide in Gaza. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

This story is so twisted. A Toronto student group hosted an event to celebrate literal members of the IDF (aka war criminals) and now they are claiming to be victims because they were protested. It isn’t + never will be antisemitic to decry Israeli genocide or to hold those responsible accountable.

Absolutely packed house to listen to @nasssbsky.bsky.social President Jay Laurendeau’s presidential address to kick off #nasss2025

If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was. They are trying to come for her job. This is the time for solidarity. forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...

On route to Vancouver! Join us if you can at SFU this evening!

Last call for @nasssbsky.bsky.social friends and Vancouver friends: @derekcrim.bsky.social, @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social, and I will be talking college football at Simon Fraser University THIS AFTERNOON from 5:30-7:30. I promise it will be worth your time!

🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade substack.com/home/post/p-...

being a Toronto sports fan sucks

Dave Snow is out here telling a government committee that racist researchers are being sidelined. But that's not the best part. The best part is that the government committee is treating this as constructive feedback. www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...

LMAOOOOOOOOOO show me a researcher who doesn’t feel welcome in Canada lmao

How depraved do you have to be to call equity, diversity, and inclusion “parasitic.”

Canada is always just a small step behind the US with this shit — and as I’ve we’ve seen, if we don’t fight this with everything we have we will be told to drink bleach by our government soon.

💀💀💀 a GOP congressman is trying to cap college football coach pay essentially at under $300k annually www.sportico.com/leagues/coll...

If you’re coming to @nasssbsky.bsky.social in Vancouver and arriving the day before (or if you are already in the Vancouver area), @derekcrim.bsky.social and I would love to see you at @SFU on Wednesday, November 5 at 5:30 pm PT for this book talk and conversation with @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social.

Very excited for "Is it time to abolish college football?" a conversation with @nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social & @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social at SFU's Burnaby Campus on November 5th (17:30-19:30) You can register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/is-it-time...

This "remarkable book...deserves to be read widely... the clarity of argument, the power of the players quotes, and the accessibility of Kalman-Lamb and Silva’s writing made the book easy to read and fascinating to think about." Hugely grateful for this review in @leisurestudies.bsky.social.

Sports aren’t political — except they are. In every sense of the word. That fact alone should have us reflect on how politics plays an integral role in sports — and how the same pressures that prevent others from speaking out prevent athletes from doing it. So we asked them about it.

This is major. Respect to @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social for writing this important piece about athletes' silent complicity w genocide

"'Only a handful of North American athletes have spoken out against Israel’s assault on Gaza, a silence shaped by fear, sponsorship & the policing of speech." In this illuminating essay @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social talk to high-level athletes to figure out exactly why.

Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza? We did too... so we asked some to find out. Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."

'Only a handful of North American athletes have spoken out against Israel’s assault on Gaza, a silence shaped by fear, sponsorship and the policing of speech' @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Very excited to announce that @derekcrim.bsky.social and I will be in conversation with @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social at Simon Fraser University on November 5 at 5:30pm PT to discuss our @uncpress.bsky.social book *The End of College Football.* if you are in the Vancouver area, please join us!

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...

On 🥎@endofsportpod.bsky.social🥎 ep170 @nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social + @johannamellis.bsky.social sit down with Sheree Bekker and Anna Posbergh to delve into the 'science' deployed to justify the anti-trans movement in sport. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... 🔶

Incredibly, he said this in conversation with Dan Dakich of all people.

Bruce Pearl resigned from Auburn basketball to run for senate in Alabama. Here's how he explains October 7, which he calls "one of the world's biggest holocausts" (note that he literally has *nothing* to say about Israel's genocidal violence against Gaza). www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

Students just discussed first half of The End of College Football by @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social and they're like... "can it be this grim?" while also saying, "yeah, some of this happens to us too" or "I was told that [FB team] basically makes it possible for me to be here"

This was a brilliant and at times devastatingly harrowing discussion that everyone should listen to.

New Episode: Kick Israel out of FIFA Check out the entire conversation with @leylahamed.bsky.social, Abubaker Abed, Roger Waters, @scotsport4pal.bsky.social, @shireenahmed.bsky.social, @nkalamb.bsky.social and others on why Israel must be banned from global sport. open.spotify.com/episode/1EZu...

Leyla provides further confirmation.

It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup. I have heard this independently confirmed from another source. www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...

Ep. 169: Exploitation and Care in College Football @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social are joined by @traciecanada.bsky.social to discuss her new @ucpress.bsky.social book *Tackling the Everyday*. open.spotify.com/episode/3NQ3...

On 🏈 @endofsportpod.bsky.social🏈 ep169 @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social sit down with Tracie Canada to discuss exploitation, care and her new book 'Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football'. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e... 🔶

Thanks so much to @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social at the @endofsportpod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about my book. This is a wide-ranging conversation that really gets at my main arguments, so I appreciate the time and space. Give us a listen!

Update: Harry Styles ran way faster than me.

Berlin Marathon done and dusted.

Former UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Michael Lynk is coming to @unbresearch.bsky.social to talk about Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception on October 1 at 5pm

Ep. 168 Canada is Trying to Deport a Future Olympian @nkalamb.bsky.social talks to Aidan Simardone about Canada's dehumanizing immigration policies and how they are leading the country to try to deport a future Olympian. open.spotify.com/episode/5be8...

Surreal to see this in CNN. What a wild week. I feel so awful for everyone on this site. I’ve dealt with this on a smaller scale before, which means I take a lot of safety precautions in my daily life. But most of those listed are private citizens just thrown to the wolves. I’m so worried.

These universities are an absolute disgrace.

This is nothing more than a smear. The National Post and CIJA are collaborating to sportwash a genocidal state and they are defaming anti-violence protesters to do it.

Grateful @davidgilbert.bsky.social covered this. I NEVER celebrated anyone’s murder. I said I was terrified the far-right would use this as an excuse to retaliate, and they’re proving me right with every post. These guys are out for blood. They don’t care whose. This is really bad.

the terrifying reality of living in an age of misinformation is that it’s often more important to be the first to convey information than it is to convey accurate information

First, unionize. Second, read your contract section on force reduction.