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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
Ever wondered what CTE actually is?

Who better to explain than BU’s Dr. Jesse Mez.
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Former coach @rusbradburd.bsky.social explains that college basketball is one big pyramid scheme.

For more of this conversation, including discussion of his new novel Big Time, check out episode 166 of @endofsportpod.bsky.social podcast.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
On @traumacode.bsky.social, I explain why sport is actually far more significant than you might think in the context of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

You can find the whole conversation here:

open.spotify.com/episode/6Dvf...
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Tracie Canada (@traciecanada.bsky.social) explains how regulation and plantation dynamics define college football.

Check out @endofsportpod.bsky.social ep. 169 for the full conversation.

Image: “Cotton Bowl” by Hank Willis Thomas
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Anna Posbergh (@annaposbergh.bsky.social) explains that we never discuss the performance *disadvantages* trans athletes face in the moral panic over trans inclusion in sport.
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Chen Chen explains that capitalism is the ghost in much progressive sports management scholarship—the system that organizes inequality yet isn’t named.

For the full conversation: @endofsportpod.bsky.social ep. 114.
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reflecting on the hypocrisies of the NCAA is almost brain-breaking.

@rusbradburd.bsky.social on @endofsportpod.bsky.social.
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
College football is defined by “corporeal concern,” explains @traciecanada.bsky.social on @endofsportpod.bsky.social.
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM