Sports People (and sports adjacent)
Nowhere near exhaustive. DM me if you want on the list!
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@derekcrim.bsky.social
@pcswakework.bsky.social
postdoc // interdisciplinary approaches to sport and physical cultural studies //
@maddyorr.bsky.social
PhD climate x sport 🤓Author of WARMING UP📙Assistant Prof #UofT 👩🏫👩💻Founder @ Sport Ecology Group. 🌱🤽🏻♀️🎿 Happy wife & mom. 💍👶🏼🩷 she/her. 📍Treaty 13/Toronto
@tedtatos.bsky.social
Alex's dad. Empirical microeconomist & statistician. Assoc. Econ Editor @ The Antitrust Bulletin. Published papers available at https://utah.academia.edu/TedTatos. Mountain biker & roadie cyclist. #SlavaUkraïni
@brettpardy.bsky.social
Social, Cultural, and Media Studies assistant professor interested in media theory and history, film, comics, hockey, and empathy.
@abdulymalik.bsky.social
Screenwriter formerly known as Marx Gasol. Kyle Lowry is an NBA Champion. Prev: Transplant (CTV), Streams Flow From a River (Superchannel) Peace by Chocolate, Queen Tut (Features). Allegiance (CBC). Current: (Redacted 👀) Rep: META (Canada), Rain (US)
@sgbuggs.bsky.social
sociologist into racism, intimacy + culture. co-editor/author of Unsafe Words (2023). disaster bi 🏳️🌈. food/theater/fashion/tv junkie. black feminist killjoy. demanding a free Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, DRC, Bangladesh, Haiti, Syria shantelgbuggs.com
@austinmccoy.bsky.social
Historian, Old School Rap Specialist. Writing book on history of the Left in Midwest and another one about De La Soul. https://austincmccoy.com/ https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
@louiseseamster.bsky.social
debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
Sociology Prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
@melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social
See link below for Manson book! American Studies, UMass Boston Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB 🇵🇸 Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson. skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
Professor of Global Health & Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
@ajbauer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Journalism at University of Alabama. PhD in American Studies from NYU. Researching conservative news and right-wing media. News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX). He/him.
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | alleged "left-wing commie-god" | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, some 18th-19th c. history | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Sports takes included for no extra charge. he/him.
@zsamudzi.bsky.social
visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
@rachellemiele.bsky.social
🍉 adjunct faculty. PhD sociology. health & illness, qual & feminist research, injury & hockey. she/her. its ray-chel like from friends. zia to 2 incredible kids she/her
@rachelallison.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Sociology at Mississippi State, studies gender and sport (mostly ⚽️). Loves women’s soccer, running, music, coffee. Stepmom to one human and mama to 🐶 🐶 🐱 🐱 🐱 🐱 🐱
@tpoates.bsky.social
media and cultural studies | author of Football and Manliness | co-author of Forming the Public | views are my own
@ss4jpal.bsky.social
@orarunswild.bsky.social
Nzee-ndoo-kee-yee-mah-nah, PhD -- Historian of Black sportspeople -- Assoc. Prof. StFX U -- Co-President of BCSA -- Editor, Sport History Review -- She/Her/Elle -- ✊🏾 🇷🇼 🇨🇦
@ant-for-the-w.bsky.social
French-American. Assistant prof studying the intersection of sport with ethnonationalism, fascism, colonialism, and imperialism.
@sportmgmtprof.bsky.social
Sport mgmt prof 🇨🇦| gender equity | women in sport | digital sport | retired pickle baller |
@neurotimes.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, violence, and sport. I also love neurology, neuroscience and the human sciences. Author of books, articles, anthologies, and expert reports. Keywords: 19~20thC; health policy; indigenous studies; gender; CTE; concussion; TBI
@edgeofsports.bsky.social
Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
@thefrankiedlc.news
writing at the intersection of sports & gender / co-author of HAIL MARY: The Rise & Fall of the National Women’s Football League / they/them 🏳️⚧️🌈
@herberthistory.bsky.social
Dad | Kentuckian in Colorado | History Dragon| Creator of Historians At The Movies #HATM | Historians At The Movies Podcast| Reckoning with Jason Herbert| Cuban coffee connoisseur| I aim to misbehave https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert
@dianamoskovitz.bsky.social
Investigations editor @ Defector. Also writing a book about the woman who got women's athletics into the Olympics. diana@defector.com dfmoskovitz@protonmail.com Signal: dmoskovitz.99
@jessicawluther.com
Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. Recently defended a dissertation on the Univ of Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
@docdre.distributedblackness.net
Ignore my late night posts. Award winning author! I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf …and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf Openly Black. Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr* andrebrock.academia.edu
@normcharlatan.bsky.social
Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
Virologist. PI at VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language. Opinions my own.
@amaraniss.bsky.social
Bestselling author of sports & social justice nonfiction for adults, teens & children. Lillian Smith, Sydney Taylor, & RFK (Sr!) Book Awards, Rainbow Book List, RISE Feminist Book List. Vandy Athletics Special Projects. Brewers, Packers Andrewmaraniss.com
@sportssocietyvu.bsky.social
Official BlueSky account of Vanderbilt's Sports & Society Initiative. Sharing news on sports & society with an emphasis on race, gender, Nashville, and Vandy.
@wesleygrafwald.bsky.social
Germanist, Dancist, Screenist, and Figure Skate-ist; Lecturer @ANUslll; Book: Dancing with the Modernist City (U Michigan Press) https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/wesley-lim https://anu-au.academia.edu/WesleyLim
@punkademic.bsky.social
Professor | Dad | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Pro-Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone, not Penn State’s | https://linktr.ee/punkademic
@endofsportpod.bsky.social
A podcast on capitalist sport, labor, and justice for end times. Hosted by @derekcrim.bsky.social, @johannamellis.bsky.social, and @nkalamb.bsky.social. Patreon: https://t.co/cPzWKKoVLI
@markdavidnorman.bsky.social
Sociologist of sport. Assistant Professor in Human Kinetics at St. Francis Xavier University. Research on sport and incarceration, sport and crime prevention, and mental health in correctional work.
@jeanmariemaier2.bsky.social
Studying higher Ed and sports. Teaching a lot. Lurking for news/pet pics, posting and replying for woso.
@dansailofsky.bsky.social
Assistant professor, University of Toronto | Studying violence and harm, labour, gender and sport | Basketball obsessive, book reader | he/him To pre-order Playing Through Pain: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469685878/playing-through-pain/
@kristiallain.bsky.social
she/her. sociologist & canada research chair in physical culture & social life @StThomasU. anti-fascist feminist. settler on stolen Wəlastəkwiyik territory.
@noahcohan.bsky.social
Sports Studies Scholar. St. Louisan. Seattle ex-pat. Working on a cultural history of the football helmet. https://noahcohan.com/
@courtneyszto.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Author of “Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians” 🏒🥅. Executive Producer of Revolutions 🚴🏻♀️. Co-host of Just Eats podcast 🍲🫔.
@hollythorpe.bsky.social
Sociologist of Sport / Physical Culture / Bodies / Theory / Method / Gender / Power (She/Her) Pākehā living in Tairāwhiti Aotearoa New Zealand
@wagesofwins.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at Southern Utah University. The latest book is Slaying the Trolls. Also author/co-author of The Wages of Wins Stumbling on Wins The Last Hero’s Lesson https://www.davidberri.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Slaying-Trolls
@profguyharrison.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | School of Journalism and Media. Father of Twins+1. Philly sports fan.
@punchingprof.bsky.social
No longer a lost Nova Scotian. Teaching Fellow, Saint Mary's University. #ldnont
@aprudy.bsky.social
that pic was long ago... CMU sociologist (UCSC) with bachelors in biology (Swat) who prolly shoulda been a geographer, envtal Marxist, father, partner, once-DIII soccer, -club ultimate and -college radio programmer
@iankennedyck.bsky.social
Words for The Hockey News | Manager The Hockey News Women's | Author of “Ice In Their Veins: Women's Relentless Pursuit of the Puck” | Opinions are my own | He/Him | Critical sports journalist
@sportsasaweapon.bsky.social
A Xicana/o 🇲🇽 sports podcast on the entanglement of sports, radical politics, & working-class sports fan culture. We just talk sports too! @ ANTICONQUISTA
@julesboykoff.bsky.social
Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author of What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); The 1936 Berlin Olympics (Common Ground 2023); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016). www.julesboykoff.org
@danielrmorrison.bsky.social
Sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. Currently writing on antiblackness in higher ed, TBI, white ignorance. A host of The Annex, a sociology podcast. Department chair and runner.
@profloumoore.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback. profloumoore.com
@kavithad.bsky.social
Journalist. Free agent. Emmy/Murrow/Webby/Gracie winner. Current: Sportly. Priors: Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, The Athletic, ESPN, Bloomberg.
@tammigaw.bsky.social
Sports Lawyer and strategist. Risk management nerd. Sports medicine in a former life. Purveyor of snark. Intolerant of racists, bigots and fascists. Lover of dogs, hiking, whisky and good music. Found in Scotland. She/her #InvestInWomen
@johannamellis.bsky.social
Ex-D1 swimmer, historian. @endofsportpod.bsky.social. Writing on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her. Anti-DeSantis. IG jojomellis for outfits
@andyhre.bsky.social
Dorky antitrust economist with an interest in sports economics, athletes' rights, and way too many boardgames.
@dvorameyers.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, beagle owner https://dvora.substack.com/ Commission me: dvorameyers@protonmail.com
@americanstudier.bsky.social
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://linktr.ee/americanstudier he/him
@shireenahmed.bsky.social
Sports journalist. University Instructor. Car dancer. Mama x 4. Happy Wife. Coffee drinker. Cat lover. Anti-oppression in sport. Bend it Like Beckham Scholar.
@doclb2.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker. She/her ✊🏾🖖🏾🩷 book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/ https://www.drletishaecbrown.com/
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com - Host, Working People podcast - Author, The Work of Living - Dad to many cats
@iansociologo.bsky.social
Sociologist studying race, class, & the environment. Author of The Business of Racism: Revaluation & Reaction in Brazil's Racial Capitalism (under contract with Duke University Press). PhD from UW-Madison. Former NSF SPRF Postdoc at UCSB. He/Him/His.
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@sydney-bauer.com
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️| Freelance Journalist for hire | she/her | Once, the Olympics in RJ. | Bylines all over; the Mets break me regularly | Sydneyerinwrites at gmail dot com Discord: sydneybauer Signal: SydneyBauer.30 www.sydney-bauer.com
@bachynski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
@victorerikray.bsky.social
Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President Elect, American Sociological Association. BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@joelanderson.bsky.social
aka Joel from Mo City | Senior staff writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box podcast | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988.
@awfulannouncing.bsky.social
Sports media news, analysis, and commentary. Part of Comeback Media. Sign up for our newsletter: https://awfulannouncing.beehiiv.com/subscribe. Tips/scoops: https://bit.ly/41MA5R9.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@amandamull.bsky.social
Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.
@nkalamb.bsky.social
🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc @ UNB; 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
@derekcrim.bsky.social
// prof & writer 🍉 // words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc. // podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social // new book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social // hobby jogger 2:49 marathon https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/