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Jan 17, 2025 | 
lithub.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
Monday, January 20 is sure to be a day of pomp and circumstance that brings Americans of all political leanings together in celebration of the nation’s most cherished of institutions. We are talking, of course, about the college football national championship game in Atlanta between Ohio State and Notre Dame. Article continues after advertisementThere is a secret sauce that makes the spectacle that will unfold in Mercedes-Benz Stadium—and indeed the entire system of college football—possible.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
orlandosentinel.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
ledger-enquirer.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
Law enforcement officers separate Michigan and Ohio State players after a brawl broke out following a 13-10 Michigan win at Ohio Stadium on Nov. 30, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. (Jason Mowry/Getty Images/TNS) TNS On Nov. 30, as the college football season reached its rivalry week climax, at least a half dozen games included heated brawls between the contestants.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
On Nov. 30, as the college football season reached its climax, at least a half dozen games included heated brawls between the contestants. Most prominent was the matchup between Michigan and Ohio State, known as “The Game.” The visiting Wolverines upset their rivals in Columbus, and after they attempted to plant their flag at midfield, an enormous melee broke out that police disturbingly attempted to suppress using in an assault on students.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva |Kevin Canfield
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game” by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. Photo: The University of North Carolina PressThis month, millions of Americans will gather around TVs and in packed stadiums, cheering as young men representing their universities flatten one another. College football, gearing up for its 12-team championship tournament, would be unrecognizable without scary collisions and their inevitable consequence — serious injuries.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
“It is clearly the duty of the colleges which have permitted these monstrous evils to grow up and become intense to purge themselves of such immoralities … Intercollegiate and interscholastic football ought to be prohibited until a reasonable game has been formulated.” Those were the words of Harvard University president Charles W Eliot in 1906, a year after three college players died playing football, part of a spate of deaths that led many universities to abandon the sport and President...
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
IntroductionThe suggestion that repeated and severe head impact (HI) in US football is associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and cognitive degeneration is now a well-established empirical fact (see Bachynski, 2019; Casper, 2018; Harrison, 2014; Mez et al., 2019). Indeed, as Stephen Casper (2018) has noted in his review of the history of concussion, “for almost a century, single or repetitive HI have been known to result in degenerative processes.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
inthesetimes.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
“It’s the fourth quarter. We’re down a field goal. But we’re on offense. We’re driving down the field. And, boy, do we have the right team to win this.” Those were part of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s closing remarks on the penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
nbmediacoop.org | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
The Canada Soccer drone spying scandal offers an ideal prism through which to examine the question of what is perceived to be scandalous in the context of global high-performance capitalist sport—and what is not.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
The Canada Soccer drone spying scandal offers an ideal prism through which to examine the question of what is perceived to be scandalous in the context of global high-performance capitalist sport—and what is not.
