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Keeping the Flame of Protest Alive
The following is a response to the article “Shut up or stay home” by Gary Kingston in Saturday’s Canwest papers, in which it was reported that Dick Pound issued a stern warning to Ca… more →
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Keeping the Flame of Protest Alive
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spitztengle wrote 1 year ago: The following is a response to the article “Shut up or stay home” by Gary Kingston in Sa … more →
Dick Pound: Shut up or stay home: Olympians who speak out in Beijing 'will be excluded'
spitztengle wrote 1 year ago: Dick Pound, told the Canadian Olympic Committee’s board that “Canadian athletes whose … more →
Why These Aren't Comparable
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spitztengle wrote 1 year ago: In the aftermath of the LeBron Vogue cover, a surely well-intentioned member of the NASSS community … more →
MSNBC Video: Is the Vogue Cover Racist?
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The Fallout in Public Response: "Much Ado About Nothing"?
spitztengle wrote 1 year ago: Over at SportsFilter the SpoFites are debating the merit in any racist interpretation of the Vogue c … more →
Racial Stereotypes--are we reading too much?
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spitztengle wrote 1 year ago: Ironically, this controversy (err, flashpoint?) erupts just as I’m reading Scripting the Black … more →
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spitztengle wrote 2 years ago: George Carlin on white people Both this Carlin clip and the Cucchiella clip below are intended for … more →
spitztengle wrote 2 years ago: Mickey Cucchiella on how to “fix” race relations *Note: the last 1:03 is the “must … more →
You make the call: Is military recruiting through university sport "out of bounds"?
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spitztengle wrote 3 years ago: It’s a play right out of the U.S. military playbook: use university and professional sport — p … more →
Cranking up the sex appeal of women's sport: Is this a good thing?
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spitztengle wrote 3 years ago: Below is an op-ed piece I co-wrote with Lisa Bavington for the Edmonton Journal (Aug. 14, 2006, p.A1 … more →
Jock Culture Questioned ... duh!
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spitztengle wrote 3 years ago: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/ Is "jock culture" somehow respon … more →
