Sports historian @ASU_SHPRS. Faculty affiliate @GlobalSportASU. Former NCAA champ & retired pro. Forever Runner. I care about the wellbeing of college athletes.
Oct 25, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
“We are not professional athletes. We do not have access to a bounty of organic food. We do not have unlimited time to cook. We cannot plan our days around our nutrition, and we are not the 30-year-old Olympians that coach Johnson seeks to compare our body fat percentage to…”
“While knowing body composition may be helpful for some athletes, I have seen it be nothing but destructive.”
Johnson: “Track is nothing but numbers. A good mathematician probably could be a good track coach.”
Apr 13, 2018 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
I wrote about privilege and power, and exploitation, in college sports. Amateurism is a label slapped on this system to make it seem ethical, pure, moral, educational, clean, just. Let’s refuse to keep playing this game. 1/ globalsportmatters.com/culture/2018/0…
Not only do the Olympics provide a nice model for the NCAA to follow and move away from collegiate amateurism, but the Olympics also reveal who really benefits from it—the non-revenue athletes whose academic and athletic experiences are subsidized by revenue athletes. 2/
