@Derekcrim

// prof & writer 🍉 // words in @Time, @LATimes, @Guardian etc. // podcast @endofsportpod // new book “the end of college football” @unc_press link in bio

uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
Joined June 2010
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I’m on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/derekcrim.b…
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I think that “injuries are part of football” is a massive understatement. There are very few sports where *devastating,* life-altering injury is fundamental to the functional play of the game. Football is not morally defensible commodity spectacle.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalambOct 19
Two college football players have died from football-related injuries this year. One hundred years ago this was cause for reevaluating the place of the sport in universities. Today? Barely rates mention.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalambOct 19
Two college football players have died from football-related injuries this year. One hundred years ago this was cause for reevaluating the place of the sport in universities. Today? Barely rates mention.
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Who knew rage-baiting loser Metallica fans would be this easy and fun
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Metallica not being political at all.
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Nope, not political at all.
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Lmfao guy got dunked so hard that he had to immediately block. How fragile these people are.
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all these Metallica stans really out here forgetting the whole Napster thing lmfao
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The point of this tweet was that Metallica have always been political you lot of nincompoops
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GaryTheAlien44@GaryTheAlien44Oct 15
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And the whole “…And Justice for All” thing.
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Says a lot about these stans that they don’t see the point of the op was that the band idiots have long been political lmfao
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And the fact their drummer literally cannot play drums
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Lmfao people big mad about this stupid tweet Same people who have been ripped off paying $400 to watch the exact same setlist for thirty years
Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social)@DerekcrimOct 13
Metallica always sucked anyway
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Metallica always sucked anyway
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Zachary Levenson@grundrzaOct 6
As it turns out, the far right doesn't give a damn about the public/private distinction and wants complete state control over private institutions as well
The Dallas Express News
@DallasExpressOct 2
Fall 2026 syllabi obtained by The Dallas Express show TCU graduate education courses focusing on “settler colonialism,” structural violence and decolonial thinking. One of the courses is required for all Curriculum Studies students. @Carlos__Turcios
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The End of Sport (@endofsportpod.bsky.social)@EndofSportPodOct 6
Man City and the Political Economy of the Premier League @NewLeftEViews of @eurotrashpod joins to break down the Man City cheating scandal and what it tells us about how the money works in the world’s most influential football league. open.spotify.com/episode/4za…
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i feel bad for all those sociologists who published in Theory & Society before 2023 and laugh daily at those who have published there since
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Me: don’t throw out anecdotes The Discourse™️: students are worse in my experience
Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social)@DerekcrimOct 2
pleading with my colleagues to 1) not throw out anecdotes as if it's indicative of a general experience, and 2) never go to social media to bash students please, I'm begging you
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pleading with my colleagues to 1) not throw out anecdotes as if it's indicative of a general experience, and 2) never go to social media to bash students please, I'm begging you
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalambOct 2
This student-hating discourse is actually really alarming. I'm aghast at the number of professors piling on who seem to hate their students. They shouldn't be educators and should follow TAH's lead out the door.
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or bash students generally....
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalambOct 2
This student-hating discourse is actually really alarming. I'm aghast at the number of professors piling on who seem to hate their students. They shouldn't be educators and should follow TAH's lead out the door.
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