Mac Ross
@punchingprof.bsky.social
No longer a lost Nova Scotian. Teaching Fellow, Saint Mary's University.
Cobrita Luna fight night
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Cobrita Luna fight night
Unhappy anniversary. On this day in 2023, Minister of Sport and Physical Activity Carla Qualtrough told the nation she was launching a commission to study abuse in sport, modelled on the TRCC. That never happened. It was nothing like the TRCC. Just another political football, punted away.
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Unhappy anniversary. On this day in 2023, Minister of Sport and Physical Activity Carla Qualtrough told the nation she was launching a commission to study abuse in sport, modelled on the TRCC. That never happened. It was nothing like the TRCC. Just another political football, punted away.
Bald guy named Mac is by far the best character in Predator. Not surprising.
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Bald guy named Mac is by far the best character in Predator. Not surprising.
Can we stop pretending FIFA cares about human rights yet? It's just in the reputation laundering business.
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Can we stop pretending FIFA cares about human rights yet? It's just in the reputation laundering business.
There weren't a ton of featherweights around Eastern Canada in the 1960s. Here's Art Hafey (left) of Stellarton and Angus Martin of Baie St. Anne meeting each other for the third time in just over a year. Art won this meeting in Fredericton in 1969, squaring them up at 1-1-1 for the trilogy.
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
There weren't a ton of featherweights around Eastern Canada in the 1960s. Here's Art Hafey (left) of Stellarton and Angus Martin of Baie St. Anne meeting each other for the third time in just over a year. Art won this meeting in Fredericton in 1969, squaring them up at 1-1-1 for the trilogy.
Helping out a documentarian tomorrow re: boxing in history of Pictou County. Here's Percy Paris (right) of New Glasgow meeting former lightweight champ Beau Jack in January 1949. This was in Boston where both guys had just won bouts. (Clipping from the Clarion, 26 Jan 1949)
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Helping out a documentarian tomorrow re: boxing in history of Pictou County. Here's Percy Paris (right) of New Glasgow meeting former lightweight champ Beau Jack in January 1949. This was in Boston where both guys had just won bouts. (Clipping from the Clarion, 26 Jan 1949)
Wishing the fleet a safe setting day here in Eastern Passage
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Wishing the fleet a safe setting day here in Eastern Passage
Let's build more radical spaces for sport studies, centering and prioritizing human rights.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Let's build more radical spaces for sport studies, centering and prioritizing human rights.
Just noticed that a prominent publisher is attributing an article I wrote for them to a different author...This required someone to go in and make the change. The new (and false) author they list happens to be a copy editor at a popular American newspaper. Wonder if my work was on their CV?
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just noticed that a prominent publisher is attributing an article I wrote for them to a different author...This required someone to go in and make the change. The new (and false) author they list happens to be a copy editor at a popular American newspaper. Wonder if my work was on their CV?
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Who could have predicted this other than everyone?
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Who could have predicted this other than everyone?
Yikes
This might be the most unhinged thing you read this morning about last night.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yikes
Donors in Canada take note
The magic word here is “unrestricted” — which is to say, the donor isn’t setting an agenda or making a big fancy monument to themselves, but letting the institution use the funds for the actual, practical needs.
Again Mackenzie Scott ftw www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/11/03/s...
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Donors in Canada take note
Patricia Hill Collins poses an important question for many academics pursuing social transformation. "How does one sustain a project that is explicitly dedicated to social transformation within an institution that has minimal interest in that expressed outcome?"
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Patricia Hill Collins poses an important question for many academics pursuing social transformation. "How does one sustain a project that is explicitly dedicated to social transformation within an institution that has minimal interest in that expressed outcome?"
Heck of a season for the Jays.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Heck of a season for the Jays.
And Rogers is having technical difficulties with their stream...😓
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
And Rogers is having technical difficulties with their stream...😓
Yukon Catholic Schools may have to cut education, culture, health, and social supports for Indigenous children following the federal government's abrupt changes to Jordan's Principle funding.
drive.google.com/file/d/1w-Y_...
drive.google.com/file/d/1w-Y_...
Media Release - Changes to Jordan's Principle.pdf
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November 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yukon Catholic Schools may have to cut education, culture, health, and social supports for Indigenous children following the federal government's abrupt changes to Jordan's Principle funding.
drive.google.com/file/d/1w-Y_...
drive.google.com/file/d/1w-Y_...
"Then there was the Commisaire de Police who had supplied Malvy with reports on Russian revolutionaries resident in Paris. This was the wonderfully named Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet." - Robert Service, "Trotsky: A Biography"
October 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Then there was the Commisaire de Police who had supplied Malvy with reports on Russian revolutionaries resident in Paris. This was the wonderfully named Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet." - Robert Service, "Trotsky: A Biography"
Home opener for the Island View High Devils tonight against Sackville. Might have to head over.
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Home opener for the Island View High Devils tonight against Sackville. Might have to head over.
Day two of the strike. Great turn out in support of part-time faculty at Saint Mary's University. Solidarity to those also striking at Mount Saint Vincent University. ✊🏻 @cupe3912.bsky.social #smu
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Day two of the strike. Great turn out in support of part-time faculty at Saint Mary's University. Solidarity to those also striking at Mount Saint Vincent University. ✊🏻 @cupe3912.bsky.social #smu
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Oh, hey! I’m still on strike as a CUPE Part-Time professor at SMU. Here’s a fun little graphic: according to Maclean’s Magazine, SMU is ranked #3 in Canada for small universities.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
October 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Oh, hey! I’m still on strike as a CUPE Part-Time professor at SMU. Here’s a fun little graphic: according to Maclean’s Magazine, SMU is ranked #3 in Canada for small universities.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
Hope the Future of Sport in Canada Commission is paying attention to the NBA gambling scandal. I hope all the national sports organizations clamoring for a cut of gambling money in Canada are too. Reason 75422357 to not fund the sport system with gambling money... www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
NBA gambling scandal shines harsh light on US sports’ embrace of betting
Two sweeping federal indictments have implicated big names in basketball and raised uncomfortable questions about who benefits from legalized gambling
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hope the Future of Sport in Canada Commission is paying attention to the NBA gambling scandal. I hope all the national sports organizations clamoring for a cut of gambling money in Canada are too. Reason 75422357 to not fund the sport system with gambling money... www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
