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It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you / Without an extremely niche @sportianity piece to step to sportianity.com/2018/07/the-fu…
Before evangelicals had their own versions of "secular" music and movies, they had their own fictional schoolboy athlete. This post is a deep dive into Tom Huntner, an obscure relic of the fundamentalist/neo-evangelical subculture.
Thanks to @jmvanwyck for bringing the Tom Huntner books to my attention a few years ago. I think we were playing poker at the time, which is something Huntner definitely would not condone.
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I enjoyed @SITimLayden's essay on football's outsized importance. But since he asked: no, that idea didn't start in the 1940s. It began in the late 19th century, and there's some great scholarship explaining how it became an entrenched part of US culture. A partial reading list:
Michael Oriard's writing played a big part in my decision to do sports history, so I gotta list him first amazon.com/Reading-Footba…
Oriard is especially good at explaining the multiple and contested cultural meanings that football held for Americans. Hist first book looked at football's early years, this one (my fav from him) looks at the 1920s-1950s amazon.com/King-Football-…
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I want to add a bit of historical perspective to the details we've learned recently about the toxic culture of intimidation and abuse in Maryland's football program by going back to one of the earliest moments when that style of coaching was publicly challenged: 1954 Nebraska.
Back then Nebraska was coached by Bill Glassford. He came to the school in 1949, bringing with him a hard-driving and "merciless" approach that, rather than causing concern, earned him a fawning 1951 profile in the Saturday Evening Post.
Glassford was hardly an anomaly, of course. This was the era in which Bear Bryant conducted his famed Junction, Texas, training camp/torture chamber.
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From 1931, legendary football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg’s leadership advice for football coaches (and apparently it applied to business executives, too)
Stagg had a separate list for players/employees
Remember, though: college athletes are not employees. They’ve just been encouraged for at least the past century to behave like employees.
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@sophiejrigney @elizabethmoya @makesmilk @babyfriendly Anthropologist here - I have written about changing ideas about #time and about the regulation of infants quite a bit. These are #culturalideologies that came about in late 19th-early 20th century in response to social changes 1/n
@sophiejrigney @elizabethmoya @makesmilk @babyfriendly the rise of industrial #capitalism changed labor practices and emphasized efficiency and predictability. The #clock was particularly important in this regard.
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1/ I consider myself to be relatively knowledgeable when it comes to personal finance...I’ve invested a lot of time educating myself over the years. The ~10 focuses & my beliefs will always change which is why it’s such an interesting topic. It also may be the most important.
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It’s “likely to be a step toward entrenching the view among the elite that racial animus isn’t so bad, so long as it’s directed at the group that was the long-running target of Jeong’s contempt.”

That is, white America. nationalreview.com/corner/by-its-…
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Radicalization of the Left along racial lines will create it, really for the first time, by its incessant demonization of “white people.”

Sad but inevitable.
You can’t promote and celebrate black and Latino nationalism in America for as long and as virulently as the Left has without the consequences inevitably bubbling up to mainstream media and culture. You can’t promote racial divisions without the ugly consequences.
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Are you one of those people who's looked back on 2017 and convinced yourself that you haven't achieved anything? Worried about catching up with your mates who seem to have done much better?

Let me tell you a story about #time.

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A long #time ago, back when I was about twelve or thirteen years old, my parents travelled to Uyo.

Before leaving, my mother asked me to prepare Edikang ikong soup so she and my father would eat when they returned.
When I was finished with the soup, it was supposed to look something like this:

*photo credit: waiter foodies.
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