Registration is open for our free virtual event on Thursday at 6:30 where Dr. Bobby J. Smith II Blair LM Kelley, PhD Ava Purkiss & Theresa Runstedtler will discuss the role of food, life, and leisure in the struggle for Black liberation. eventbrite.com/e/conversation…

You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment. bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

I wrote a short piece on the gender pay disparity between the NBA and WNBA - why are we just talking about this now?!

“…low pay has long necessitated that North America’s best women ballplayers go abroad to Europe, Asia and Australia to supplement…their WNBA incomes.” Prior to #WNBA era, they went overseas, including to 🇫🇷 as France And US Voices note. Great piece Theresa Runstedtler CNN Opinion

.Theresa Runstedtler: "Given what I know about the history of the NBA, I am a firm believer that if the same investment and strategizing begins to go into the women’s game, it will also garner more market share." edition.cnn.com/2024/05/08/opi… #UnitedStates #WNBA

Was a guest this morning on WBUR with Rebecca Lobo and Theresa Runstedtler to discuss Caitlin Clark, the WNBA, and the gender-wage gap! wbur.org/onpoint/2024/0… For more on all this, Slaying the Trolls! - with Nef -- is coming out in just a few days!

“@fguridy’s impressively wide-ranging and lucid history reveals that stadiums have always been about far more than just play. Essential reading.”—Theresa Runstedtler Available August 20. Learn more: bit.ly/4e6groV #Stadium

when you’ve been just SITTING on an instagram caption

Trying to understand the #NCAA playbook to avoid free labor markets for athlete services? Read “Black Ball” by Theresa Runstedtler and cut and paste much of the NBA’s 1965-76 legal and PR strategy. But, unlike NBA owners, continue to fight against good faith collective bargaining.

With today being the anniversary of the famed Black Power fist salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics, please read this classic post from profloumoore about the image, the reaction to it, and its aftermath. Black Perspectives AAIHS aaihs.org/black-fists-bl…

Here’s the link for anyone who wants to attend the ⁦Temple Law Review⁩ symposium today on college sports. I am speaking on the first panel about the House settlement w/ Steve Berman (House lawyer), ⁦@DarrenHeitner⁩ and ⁦Jason Belzer⁩. templelawreview.org/symposium/

Haven't been on here in a minute... #life A piece that came out of my book research but fell on the cutting room floor is now out! Unnecessary Roughness: The NFL's War on Drugs in the 1970s | Modern American History | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4fhYmUT

RIP. Just today I was reading about Bob Love in Theresa Runstedtler’s excellent book “Black Ball.” The treatment of Love and Norm Van Lier by the Bulls, reporters and fans during a holdout over broken salary promises was emblematic of 1970s basketball stars’ struggles.

A huge shout-out to our SportsStudiesCaucus friends Courtney Cox, Theresa Runstedtler, @toates, and Tracie Canada (traciecanada.bsky.social) for their incredibly insightful engagements with the book this past week.