courtney m. cox
@courtmcox.bsky.social
sports prof | wine student | author of double crossover: gender, media, and politics in global basketball (may 2025) | formerly: espn, kpcc, la sparks
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Double Crossover
www.press.uillinois.edu
if you'd like to order double crossover, you can do so here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... I'll be posting more about the process and the final product in the weeks leading up to its release in May!
my people. <3
March 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
my people. <3
!!!!!!
will I be employed long enough to settle my beefs?
March 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
!!!!!!
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Setting aside Newsom's execrable willingness to treat human rights as a politically negotiable chit, let's not forget that "sports have never been fair," as @jessicawluther.com explained for @vox.com. @katiebarnes.bsky.social makes this point in their book "Fair Play" too www.vox.com/the-highligh...
March 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Setting aside Newsom's execrable willingness to treat human rights as a politically negotiable chit, let's not forget that "sports have never been fair," as @jessicawluther.com explained for @vox.com. @katiebarnes.bsky.social makes this point in their book "Fair Play" too www.vox.com/the-highligh...
the good folks at the common reader let me nerd out a bit on a few of my recent obsessions - how pickleball continues to dominate local politics and how we imagine who and what deserves to be in our dwindling public spaces
commonreader.wustl.edu/c/searching-...
commonreader.wustl.edu/c/searching-...
The Politics of Pickleball - Common Reader
The proliferation of pickleball has clashed with its racquet elder, tennis. The contrast between the two can be felt from the global to the local, where Facebook rants, city council meetings, and pass...
commonreader.wustl.edu
March 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
the good folks at the common reader let me nerd out a bit on a few of my recent obsessions - how pickleball continues to dominate local politics and how we imagine who and what deserves to be in our dwindling public spaces
commonreader.wustl.edu/c/searching-...
commonreader.wustl.edu/c/searching-...
uh, I am concerned/fascinated by the sports media bros - no one is ok! starbucks squabbles, sir charles welcoming <ahem> "all the smoke" from perk, stephen a getting a FAFO appetizer platter
March 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
uh, I am concerned/fascinated by the sports media bros - no one is ok! starbucks squabbles, sir charles welcoming <ahem> "all the smoke" from perk, stephen a getting a FAFO appetizer platter
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“Who talks about women’s sports more than First Take” is one of my favorite lines ever uttered on sports television.
Only fair given how much work he's put into championing women's sports...
NEWS: Stephen A. Smith's deal is complete with ESPN for five years and at least $100 million, The Athletic has learned.
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/618...
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/618...
March 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“Who talks about women’s sports more than First Take” is one of my favorite lines ever uttered on sports television.
katie x basketball feelings never, ever misses.
on the neoliberalism that creates the environment where folks can no longer "[flesh] an athlete out as a whole consciousness instead of just warming to the details of their body."
on the neoliberalism that creates the environment where folks can no longer "[flesh] an athlete out as a whole consciousness instead of just warming to the details of their body."
the week’s BASKETBALL FEELINGS is about empathy turning into a finite resource, something we only give with promise of return
plus: embiid knee, trump’s fear, and how the trickledown of tone in nba punditry gives us permission to flatten people
plus: embiid knee, trump’s fear, and how the trickledown of tone in nba punditry gives us permission to flatten people
Empathy's expiry date
How fear and individualism is turning our most expansive human quality finite.
www.basketballfeelings.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
katie x basketball feelings never, ever misses.
on the neoliberalism that creates the environment where folks can no longer "[flesh] an athlete out as a whole consciousness instead of just warming to the details of their body."
on the neoliberalism that creates the environment where folks can no longer "[flesh] an athlete out as a whole consciousness instead of just warming to the details of their body."
so grateful to join an AMAZING crew of scholars in this catalog. so many great sports books here I can't wait to dig into!
Spring/Summer 2025 catalog just dropped!
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Browse the catalog here: go.illinois.edu/UIPSS25Catalog
⚾️✊🏿🎤🏨🎡🔥🏀✝️⚽️💵😷
Browse the catalog here: go.illinois.edu/UIPSS25Catalog
March 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
so grateful to join an AMAZING crew of scholars in this catalog. so many great sports books here I can't wait to dig into!