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On my way to Illinois!

Heading home to see my babies 🥰 … had a great time at Illinois talking sports with El Profe (Adrian Burgos, Jr.) Frank Guridy profloumoore shakeia

"I just try to stay strong... I've been attacked so many times. Death threats, I've been sexualized, I've been threatened... All this has happened since I won the national championship & I haven't been happy since then." - Angel (h/t ClutchPoints )

"I wish a missile would kill us so that we can finally get some rest." This elderly Palestinian man feels despair as the suffering caused by Israel's war on Gaza is compounded by the heat.

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…

"Among US college athletes, suicide is now the second leading cause of death after accidents — and rates have doubled from 7.6% to 15.3% over the past 20 years" cnn.com/2024/04/10/hea…

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!

“Frank Guridy’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

Excited to share that I've been awarded the most made-for-me fellowship possible. I'll be spending the next year working on a longform article that draws from past and present research-a history of how local and federal interests planned (or tried to plan) the city's Bicentennial

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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.