Hi.
*Scholar of culture, sport, and society.
*Host & Producer of Give Theory a Chance & Give Methods a Chance.
*Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport.
*co-host of the Dear Adam Silver podcast w/ Abigail Smithson
Kyle Green
Loving @inaeoh.bsky.social's turn towards the @motherjones.com combat sports journalist! Also, @juliekedzie.bsky.social and @jennmcclearen.bsky.social say a bunch of smart stuff about the about the absence of women fighters at the UFC White House event!
This piece by Dr. Gounder both reminds us of the courage and value of Grant Wahl’s sports writing (and what we have lost) by covering the many public health failures surrounding the current ebola outbreak right as travel ramps up for the World Cup. Reminder to self to read everything Céline writes.
*academics too.
I had a great time talking to @inaeoh.bsky.social about the Dana White Donald Trump alliance. If sport is, as sociologists contend, a highly visible platform where society tells the story about what we are and who we could be, the event on the White House lawn deserves a lot of analysis because…—>
A new episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, writer, life long baller, and creator of the Spirit of Hoops project (spiritofhoops.com) talks about his essay “WILL BASKETBALL IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAKE YOU TO ACTION?” - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/... - Very smart observation from @benfowlkes.bsky.social - amplifying a trend that we saw way back in TUF and that rose to extreme levels during covid. Also such a stark contrast to every single other major and semi-major sport. Highly recommended read!
I had the honor of talking with MMA legend @juliekedzie.bsky.social about combat sport culture and the hypocrisy of UFC fighters clamoring to fight at the White House. Thanks to @tsingleton.bsky.social for having me as a co-host.*
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*art courtesy of Claudia Fung
I also recommend checking out some of Blake’s other writing including my personal favorites “A Battle for Basketball Paradise” (for Oxford American) and “ON WOMEN DUNKING AND BASKETBALL AS A HUMAN POTENTIAL ACCELERANT” (presented in partnership with the Black Womens Basketball Museum).
Listen to @tsingleton.bsky.social and I talk with adventurer, jiu-jitsu expert, and firefighter @stephankesting.bsky.social as a reminder of the cool people who still exist in martial arts combat sport.
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Thank you to @kylethegreen.bsky.social for all the insights into the transactional Trump-Dana White alliance, the controversial aesthetics of MMA, and for introducing me to someone named Anderson Silva!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Dana White stood by Trump during Covid and Jan. 6. The White House brawl may dent their alliance.
White is charging ahead on a full-scale media blitz to promote the upcoming UFC event on the White House lawn, but the fighters who'll compete on the card are little more than an afterthought in the c...
I think I found a new beat?! Roar! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.
Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
Dr. Céline Gounder (wife of the late Grant Wahl) just shared this piece: Grant Wahl Should Be Covering this World Cup.
It touches on the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and reminds us, no one was better at juxtaposing the world & soccer than Grant. Give it a read.
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Wrote about "the UFC" and it was...........fascinating!!!
Dana White stood by Trump during Covid and Jan. 6. The White House brawl may dent their alliance.
The 2026 World Cup has no public health command. The Ebola outbreak has reached 350 cases. And the journalist who would have asked the hardest questions isn’t here.
