Derek Silva
@derekcrim.bsky.social
// prof & writer 🍉
// words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc.
// podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social
// new book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
// words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc.
// podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social
// new book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
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Derek Silva
@derekcrim.bsky.social
· Nov 19
🚨 IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🚨
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Petty and deranged.
another example of the fascists using sport as the test site for their fascist plays
He's seeding the idea of the government takeover of the media.
January 18, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Petty and deranged.
another example of the fascists using sport as the test site for their fascist plays
He's seeding the idea of the government takeover of the media.
January 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM
another example of the fascists using sport as the test site for their fascist plays
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Okay, I’ll admit it: my most normie-lib take is that I always found the Trump-Russia stuff fairly compelling.
January 17, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Okay, I’ll admit it: my most normie-lib take is that I always found the Trump-Russia stuff fairly compelling.
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re: @annaposbergh.bsky.social & @nkalamb.bsky.social’s discussions about re-deploying “fairness”:
I’ve had *some* success w/ students by posing Qs about athletes in the men’s category, e.g. “If levels of T ‘outside of typical’ is about ‘fairness’ shouldn‘t we test folks in the men’s category too?”
I’ve had *some* success w/ students by posing Qs about athletes in the men’s category, e.g. “If levels of T ‘outside of typical’ is about ‘fairness’ shouldn‘t we test folks in the men’s category too?”
Out of Left Field: Episode 1
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
January 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
re: @annaposbergh.bsky.social & @nkalamb.bsky.social’s discussions about re-deploying “fairness”:
I’ve had *some* success w/ students by posing Qs about athletes in the men’s category, e.g. “If levels of T ‘outside of typical’ is about ‘fairness’ shouldn‘t we test folks in the men’s category too?”
I’ve had *some* success w/ students by posing Qs about athletes in the men’s category, e.g. “If levels of T ‘outside of typical’ is about ‘fairness’ shouldn‘t we test folks in the men’s category too?”
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Precisely. The truth is that sport has never had anything whatsoever to do with fairness.
Bodies are different. Resources and access are stratified.
Sport *never* matters more than human well-being. And we should never accept the premise that losing at sport is an actual commensurate form of harm.
Bodies are different. Resources and access are stratified.
Sport *never* matters more than human well-being. And we should never accept the premise that losing at sport is an actual commensurate form of harm.
re: @annaposbergh.bsky.social & @nkalamb.bsky.social’s discussions about re-deploying “fairness”:
I’ve had *some* success w/ students by posing Qs about athletes in the men’s category, e.g. “If levels of T ‘outside of typical’ is about ‘fairness’ shouldn‘t we test folks in the men’s category too?”
I’ve had *some* success w/ students by posing Qs about athletes in the men’s category, e.g. “If levels of T ‘outside of typical’ is about ‘fairness’ shouldn‘t we test folks in the men’s category too?”
Out of Left Field: Episode 1
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
January 17, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Precisely. The truth is that sport has never had anything whatsoever to do with fairness.
Bodies are different. Resources and access are stratified.
Sport *never* matters more than human well-being. And we should never accept the premise that losing at sport is an actual commensurate form of harm.
Bodies are different. Resources and access are stratified.
Sport *never* matters more than human well-being. And we should never accept the premise that losing at sport is an actual commensurate form of harm.
Good to have you here comrade!
Blame it on @nkalamb.bsky.social but I'm finally here now! Excited to connect with fellow comrades who moved on from the hellsite now called X
January 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Good to have you here comrade!
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Fantastic to hear @annaposbergh.bsky.social joining the @endofsportpod.bsky.social crew as a new co-host!
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Fantastic to hear @annaposbergh.bsky.social joining the @endofsportpod.bsky.social crew as a new co-host!
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social
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I cannot tell you how thrilled @derekcrim.bsky.social, @johannamellis.bsky.social and I are to add Anna to the @harbingermedia.bsky.social @endofsportpod.bsky.social team.
We’re just getting started.
We’re just getting started.
First big life update of 2026 🫣
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
Out of Left Field: Episode 1
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
January 16, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I cannot tell you how thrilled @derekcrim.bsky.social, @johannamellis.bsky.social and I are to add Anna to the @harbingermedia.bsky.social @endofsportpod.bsky.social team.
We’re just getting started.
We’re just getting started.
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First big life update of 2026 🫣
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
Out of Left Field: Episode 1
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
January 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
First big life update of 2026 🫣
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
I am SO excited to join @endofsportpod.bsky.social as a co-host!!!! Make sure to tune in for both new and familiar content — we’re stoked about our upcoming episodes and plans 👀
@nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social
New segment.
New ideas.
New perspectives.
We are so back.
New ideas.
New perspectives.
We are so back.
Out of Left Field: Episode 1
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
This is the first of bi-weekly conversations between our co-hosts about current issues in sport (and beyond).
In this episode we catch up on the state of the world after our hiatus.
Oh, and we share a podcast-altering announcement. 👀
open.spotify.com/episode/5771...
January 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
New segment.
New ideas.
New perspectives.
We are so back.
New ideas.
New perspectives.
We are so back.
Hey tenureds at the University of Minnesota — where are you?
This should be reputation-shattering for the University of Minnesota.
Absolutely boycott-worthy that they are full collaborators.
Absolutely boycott-worthy that they are full collaborators.
Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. bit.ly/49SpwBk
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
January 16, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Hey tenureds at the University of Minnesota — where are you?
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Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. bit.ly/49SpwBk
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
January 14, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. bit.ly/49SpwBk
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
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Oh yeah, there was a noise protest there....I wanna say Tuesday. Maybe Wednesday. I dunno, the days have been kinda blurring together lately.
So this is unbelievably vile. From someone I consider a very trusted source.
January 16, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Oh yeah, there was a noise protest there....I wanna say Tuesday. Maybe Wednesday. I dunno, the days have been kinda blurring together lately.
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Oh, members of the Gopher band have an incredible opportunity to do some joyful disruption with the U of M fight song. Repeatedly. And loudly.
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Oh, members of the Gopher band have an incredible opportunity to do some joyful disruption with the U of M fight song. Repeatedly. And loudly.
This is a scandal.
So this is unbelievably vile. From someone I consider a very trusted source.
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
This is a scandal.
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Adam Tooze on professional Dems: “If you had any self-respect, you would not be on any podium again, ever, sounding off about anything. Because comrades, if we were in the 30s, I would have taken you out and shot you. You fail like this, you don’t get to come back and show off your wounds.”
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January 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Adam Tooze on professional Dems: “If you had any self-respect, you would not be on any podium again, ever, sounding off about anything. Because comrades, if we were in the 30s, I would have taken you out and shot you. You fail like this, you don’t get to come back and show off your wounds.”
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hey bob, universities need to survive if they are going to do that
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/bob-...
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/bob-...
Bob Rae urges universities to remain climate-change leaders - University Affairs
In a volatile world, universities form bulwarks of scientific integrity and technological development, says former U.N. ambassador.
universityaffairs.ca
January 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
hey bob, universities need to survive if they are going to do that
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/bob-...
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/bob-...
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What is most galling to me is the refusal to take responsibility for the moral panic over trans inclusion in sport by those responsible for instigating it.
Before, no one cared because NO ONE WAS HARMED BY TRANS INCLUSION.
No one.
But they fanned the flames and collaborated with MAGA.
Et voila.
Before, no one cared because NO ONE WAS HARMED BY TRANS INCLUSION.
No one.
But they fanned the flames and collaborated with MAGA.
Et voila.
I have a better idea. We travel back in time. The @democrats.org do not pretend humans can change sex. They defend women's and girls rights to single sex services provisions and sports, when sex matters. They do not gift the election to Trump. ICE does not exist.
January 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM
What is most galling to me is the refusal to take responsibility for the moral panic over trans inclusion in sport by those responsible for instigating it.
Before, no one cared because NO ONE WAS HARMED BY TRANS INCLUSION.
No one.
But they fanned the flames and collaborated with MAGA.
Et voila.
Before, no one cared because NO ONE WAS HARMED BY TRANS INCLUSION.
No one.
But they fanned the flames and collaborated with MAGA.
Et voila.
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So, I guess that must mean you are criticizing people like this who have been feeding quotes to MAGA for years on Fox News.
Right?
www.foxnews.com/politics/wom...
Right?
www.foxnews.com/politics/wom...
January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
So, I guess that must mean you are criticizing people like this who have been feeding quotes to MAGA for years on Fox News.
Right?
www.foxnews.com/politics/wom...
Right?
www.foxnews.com/politics/wom...
ICE out here doing its best to inject abolition in the veins of the mainstream
January 14, 2026 at 12:09 PM
ICE out here doing its best to inject abolition in the veins of the mainstream
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Yeah. Tenured folks need to *use the privilege provided by tenure*. The answer is definitely not a *more* precarious faculty system.
A too large proportion of tenured folks refuse to acknowledge the crisis of precarious in higher ed.
However.
In a moment when the ability of anyone to speak publicly without repercussion is under threat and all university admins push precarity, abandoning the best protection is not the way.
However.
In a moment when the ability of anyone to speak publicly without repercussion is under threat and all university admins push precarity, abandoning the best protection is not the way.
You know, AHA has been surprisingly pretty good and on a personal level I was pleasantly surprised at how well I’ve handled it emotionally.
But it also reaffirmed that tenure needs to go, and the *minimum* ask for tenured and tenure-track faculty is abolishing it.
But it also reaffirmed that tenure needs to go, and the *minimum* ask for tenured and tenure-track faculty is abolishing it.
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Yeah. Tenured folks need to *use the privilege provided by tenure*. The answer is definitely not a *more* precarious faculty system.
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Not claiming they’re corrosive to a lesser degree, I’m claiming they’re MORE corrosive in non-academic unions
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Not claiming they’re corrosive to a lesser degree, I’m claiming they’re MORE corrosive in non-academic unions
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
Tenure itself has contributed to shielding all academic workers from much worse two-tiered conditions the rest of us face, not just security, but pay, benefits, protection from reprisal
videos of ICE falling on ice are objectively funny and nobody can tell anyone otherwise
January 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
videos of ICE falling on ice are objectively funny and nobody can tell anyone otherwise
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