Derek Silva
@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/
// 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/
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Derek Silva
@derekcrim.bsky.social
· Nov 19
🚨 IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🚨
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game” is now OFFICIALLY available. This brilliant 🧵 by @nkalamb.bsky.social is the go-to resource for the book and related work.
@uncpress.bsky.social
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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El Jones - Disturbing the Peace
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
El Jones - Disturbing the Peace
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
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This story sums up college football very neatly: a player stabs two of his teammates (violence is a ubiquitous part of the sport, even internal to the team, even off he field, even encouraged by coaches)… and then the game proceeds as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
Because it isn’t, really.
Because it isn’t, really.
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This story sums up college football very neatly: a player stabs two of his teammates (violence is a ubiquitous part of the sport, even internal to the team, even off he field, even encouraged by coaches)… and then the game proceeds as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
Because it isn’t, really.
Because it isn’t, really.
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Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.
This is very good
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is very good
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I've heard good things about this book.
Our book *The End of College Football* has been nominated for the inaugural 2025 @uncpress.bsky.social Readers’ Choice Award!
If you enjoyed reading it please take a moment to vote (while supporting university press books!).
@nkalamb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you enjoyed reading it please take a moment to vote (while supporting university press books!).
@nkalamb.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I've heard good things about this book.
Our book *The End of College Football* has been nominated for the inaugural 2025 @uncpress.bsky.social Readers’ Choice Award!
If you enjoyed reading it please take a moment to vote (while supporting university press books!).
@nkalamb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you enjoyed reading it please take a moment to vote (while supporting university press books!).
@nkalamb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Our book *The End of College Football* has been nominated for the inaugural 2025 @uncpress.bsky.social Readers’ Choice Award!
If you enjoyed reading it please take a moment to vote (while supporting university press books!).
@nkalamb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you enjoyed reading it please take a moment to vote (while supporting university press books!).
@nkalamb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Perhaps the wildest thing about this all is that AI is dumb af at all of these jobs.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Perhaps the wildest thing about this all is that AI is dumb af at all of these jobs.
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What is truly wild about this is that Vince Gasparro was essentially copying the depraved behaviour of Marco Rubio, but with even LESS authority to do so, which is to say none whatsoever!
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
What is truly wild about this is that Vince Gasparro was essentially copying the depraved behaviour of Marco Rubio, but with even LESS authority to do so, which is to say none whatsoever!
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Canadian parliamentary secretary for combating crime Vince Gasparro LIED when he said all of Kneecap was banned from Canada, per CBC.
Only one member was prohibited.
This is an incredible overreach of power and violation of public trust and the rights of these men. He must be held to account.
Only one member was prohibited.
This is an incredible overreach of power and violation of public trust and the rights of these men. He must be held to account.
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Canadian parliamentary secretary for combating crime Vince Gasparro LIED when he said all of Kneecap was banned from Canada, per CBC.
Only one member was prohibited.
This is an incredible overreach of power and violation of public trust and the rights of these men. He must be held to account.
Only one member was prohibited.
This is an incredible overreach of power and violation of public trust and the rights of these men. He must be held to account.
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They are literally claiming in public that writing about Israel’s athleticide/genocide in a *peer-reviewed academic journal* is somehow a careerist grift.
The delusion is almost unparalleled.
The delusion is almost unparalleled.
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
They are literally claiming in public that writing about Israel’s athleticide/genocide in a *peer-reviewed academic journal* is somehow a careerist grift.
The delusion is almost unparalleled.
The delusion is almost unparalleled.
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You can't make this shit up.
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You can't make this shit up.
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The most important argument for trans inclusion in sport has nothing to do with science.
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The most important argument for trans inclusion in sport has nothing to do with science.
special shoutout to that guy in uxbridge who REALLY cares about downtown Toronto bike lanes
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
special shoutout to that guy in uxbridge who REALLY cares about downtown Toronto bike lanes
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It was an enormous honour for @derekcrim.bsky.social and I to receive the @nasssbsky.bsky.social Outstanding Book Award for 2024 for our book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game.*
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It was an enormous honour for @derekcrim.bsky.social and I to receive the @nasssbsky.bsky.social Outstanding Book Award for 2024 for our book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American game.*
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The Football Association of Ireland has approved a resolution to submit a formal motion to UEFA to suspend Israel.
www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Football Association of Ireland has approved a resolution to submit a formal motion to UEFA to suspend Israel.
www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
www.reuters.com/sports/socce...
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My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff
New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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FIFA, the IOC, & essentially all world sports governing bodies are forever and irreparably shamed by their failure to ban Israel from international competition. They are complicit in the genocide by sportswashing it. Israeli Olympic Judoka literally wrote messages on artillery shells bound for Gaza.
22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal:
Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US."
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US."
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
FIFA, the IOC, & essentially all world sports governing bodies are forever and irreparably shamed by their failure to ban Israel from international competition. They are complicit in the genocide by sportswashing it. Israeli Olympic Judoka literally wrote messages on artillery shells bound for Gaza.
In this open access peer-reviewed article, I and 21 of my sports studies colleagues argue that Israel is committing athleticide in Gaza.
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In this open access peer-reviewed article, I and 21 of my sports studies colleagues argue that Israel is committing athleticide in Gaza.
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
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This story is so twisted. A Toronto student group hosted an event to celebrate literal members of the IDF (aka war criminals) and now they are claiming to be victims because they were protested.
It isn’t + never will be antisemitic to decry Israeli genocide or to hold those responsible accountable.
It isn’t + never will be antisemitic to decry Israeli genocide or to hold those responsible accountable.
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This story is so twisted. A Toronto student group hosted an event to celebrate literal members of the IDF (aka war criminals) and now they are claiming to be victims because they were protested.
It isn’t + never will be antisemitic to decry Israeli genocide or to hold those responsible accountable.
It isn’t + never will be antisemitic to decry Israeli genocide or to hold those responsible accountable.
Absolutely packed house to listen to @nasssbsky.bsky.social President Jay Laurendeau’s presidential address to kick off #nasss2025
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Absolutely packed house to listen to @nasssbsky.bsky.social President Jay Laurendeau’s presidential address to kick off #nasss2025
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If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was.
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
forms.gle
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was.
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
They are trying to come for her job.
This is the time for solidarity.
forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...
On route to Vancouver! Join us if you can at SFU this evening!
Last call for @nasssbsky.bsky.social friends and Vancouver friends:
@derekcrim.bsky.social, @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social, and I will be talking college football at Simon Fraser University THIS AFTERNOON from 5:30-7:30.
I promise it will be worth your time!
@derekcrim.bsky.social, @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social, and I will be talking college football at Simon Fraser University THIS AFTERNOON from 5:30-7:30.
I promise it will be worth your time!
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
On route to Vancouver! Join us if you can at SFU this evening!
Reposted by Derek Silva
Last call for @nasssbsky.bsky.social friends and Vancouver friends:
@derekcrim.bsky.social, @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social, and I will be talking college football at Simon Fraser University THIS AFTERNOON from 5:30-7:30.
I promise it will be worth your time!
@derekcrim.bsky.social, @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social, and I will be talking college football at Simon Fraser University THIS AFTERNOON from 5:30-7:30.
I promise it will be worth your time!
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Last call for @nasssbsky.bsky.social friends and Vancouver friends:
@derekcrim.bsky.social, @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social, and I will be talking college football at Simon Fraser University THIS AFTERNOON from 5:30-7:30.
I promise it will be worth your time!
@derekcrim.bsky.social, @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social, and I will be talking college football at Simon Fraser University THIS AFTERNOON from 5:30-7:30.
I promise it will be worth your time!
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🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
substack.com/home/post/p-...
UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide and Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Dr Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade.
substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
substack.com/home/post/p-...
being a Toronto sports fan sucks
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
being a Toronto sports fan sucks