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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Mostly dancing at state fairs

Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

new Give Theory a Chance! A discussion with @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social about her excellent and timely new book Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right (@wwnorton.com). thesocietypages.org/theory/2026/... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... @thesocietypages.bsky.social

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New episode of the I Have Questions podcast w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to talk to @laurajedeed.bsky.social and get her insights into MMA fandom, shifts in marketing/promotion, and what really went down at the UFC 250 fan fest! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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“A lot of fight fandom is STILL really nerdy” with Laura Jedeed

Podcast Episode · I Have Questions Podcast · June 27 · 1h 22m

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It is wild how, across the board, our overlords are like "what if we made the bread and circuses more expensive"

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is the danger of prioritizing the I don't like the aesthetic as the critique. For people who like fighting, the show was good + the military was celebrated. Sport is magical at hiding the politics even when it seems unhideable and washing away the corruption even when it seems unwashable.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The UFC won't punish him. The UFC's incentive structure will reward him. The White House will share images of Hokit draping his NFT chain on Trump's neck. And apologists will say it is just an act. Following the Colby, Sean, Conor, and even Chael precedent. @motherjones.com @inaeoh.bsky.social

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

didn't expect this! have you shared this story? are we taking guesses on which one?

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

agreed! definitely isn't true in fandom or in the the hobbyists filling local gyms. bit of a jump but reminds me of the racism is in the south way of seeing the world.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm already seeing people highlight that he was a poli sci major with a high gpa as proof he is playing a character as some kind of defense. Which I think seems worse to me and is a pretty damning statement about the incentive structure of the UFC.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hokit won't get punished. Instead it will probably be semi-ignored by the UFC to create the tiniest bit of distance while continuing to reward him for the attention he gets from it. And the commentators will say that he is 'controversial' and laugh about it.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

really insightful take as always from @dieworkwear.bsky.social (+ the reason why it is dangerous to lean to far into a critique of the aesthetics and dismissing the sport rather than focusing on all the corruption and money being wasted)

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Mayor Mamdani streamed the Knicks game on 130 LinkNYC kiosks across the city.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This was excellent! Thank you for writing + your coverage of the event. Some of the best I've seen.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is the story. Questions of taste is interesting and useful, but not where the focus needs to be.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This could be seen all the way back during the TUF days. And was amplified during the start of COVID with the self-promotion of Dana White as the hero guiding the company through the storm. This is another big step up. One of the many reasons that it makes sense that White and Trump get along.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The % of ads featuring Dana White is really something - trucks, crypto, insurance, the United States. 0 featuring fighters. Can't think of another major, or even minor, sport where you see the CEO of the company and not the athletes making money off commercials. Same with the pre-event promotion.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Great talking to Joe Miller @financialtimes.com about the less than subtle intersection of sports & politics/intersection of Trump & the UFC that is playing out on the White House lawn tonight.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I think this means Spurs are the NBA champions? And, more sadly, the Knicks drought continues.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

How did we not get a special Six Trophies reunion?

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Also, without a doubt, @karimzidan.com is the person to follow if you want to understand the intersection of combat sport and politics.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

One critique of the White House fights is an aesthetic one. And I think that critique matters. But the more significant one in my mind is the amount of money exchanging hands and pockets being filled (+ those hands generally being quite dirty and those pockets quite corrupt).

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Loving @inaeoh.bsky.social's turn towards the @motherjones.com combat sports journalist! Also, @juliekedzie.bsky.social and @jennmcclearen.bsky.social say a bunch of smart stuff about the about the absence of women fighters at the UFC White House event!

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This piece by Dr. Gounder both reminds us of the courage and value of Grant Wahl’s sports writing (and what we have lost) by covering the many public health failures surrounding the current ebola outbreak right as travel ramps up for the World Cup. Reminder to self to read everything Céline writes.

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Inae Oh @inaeoh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thank you to @kylethegreen.bsky.social for all the insights into the transactional Trump-Dana White alliance, the controversial aesthetics of MMA, and for introducing me to someone named Anderson Silva!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Why Trump's cage fight could hurt the UFC

Dana White stood by Trump during Covid and Jan. 6. The White House brawl may dent their alliance.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I had a great time talking to @inaeoh.bsky.social about the Dana White Donald Trump alliance. If sport is, as sociologists contend, a highly visible platform where society tells the story about what we are and who we could be, the event on the White House lawn deserves a lot of analysis because…—>

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

@joelanderson.bsky.social and now @netw3rk.bsky.social finding their ways to the Press Box! Feeling the same way about this as thirteen year old me did when I played the NBA 2K trade machine right and got all my favorite players to the Kings…

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/... - Very smart observation from @benfowlkes.bsky.social - amplifying a trend that we saw way back in TUF and that rose to extreme levels during covid. Also such a stark contrast to every single other major and semi-major sport. Highly recommended read!

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As UFC White House nears, Dana White is suddenly everywhere, making the case for Trump — and himself

White is charging ahead on a full-scale media blitz to promote the upcoming UFC event on the White House lawn, but the fighters who'll compete on the card are little more than an afterthought in the c...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Listen to @tsingleton.bsky.social and I talk with adventurer, jiu-jitsu expert, and firefighter @stephankesting.bsky.social as a reminder of the cool people who still exist in martial arts combat sport. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Hey! I know that podcast! Seems like one of the hosts should have caught that...Also, is it the collective poetry community that you are seeking forgiveness from or does it only take one?

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I had the honor of talking with MMA legend @juliekedzie.bsky.social about combat sport culture and the hypocrisy of UFC fighters clamoring to fight at the White House. Thanks to @tsingleton.bsky.social for having me as a co-host.* podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... *art courtesy of Claudia Fung

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I also recommend checking out some of Blake’s other writing including my personal favorites “A Battle for Basketball Paradise” (for Oxford American) and “ON WOMEN DUNKING AND BASKETBALL AS A HUMAN POTENTIAL ACCELERANT” (presented in partnership with the Black Womens Basketball Museum).

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Playbook — Sacred

Photos, videos, and blogs exploring the game of basketball and the culture of the game from around the globe.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A new episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, writer, life long baller, and creator of the Spirit of Hoops project (spiritofhoops.com) talks about his essay “WILL BASKETBALL IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAKE YOU TO ACTION?” - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 27/03/2026

Today is a good day to follow Generative AI Slop-Free news outlets bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

new podcast project talking combat sports, culture, and politics w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social! The first three guests - Julie Kedzie, Stephan Kesting, Nate Quarry - are a dream lineup for me and I'm hoping some listeners will agree! pod.link/1531590204/e...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

New Dear Adam Silver! Rafi Kohan, author of Trash Talk, shares his experience giving the keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and why the petition that followed demonstrated a misunderstanding of talking trash. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#sociology peeps: I am organizing a section at ASA called neuroscience, cognition, and sociology. Please submit. Please pass around. Papers need not do both neuroscience and cognition...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This conversation is part of the Spring 2026 Sociological Life Lessons class @sunybrockport.bsky.social. An experiment that I will be writing about soon for @firstpublics.bsky.social! *posting this with the goal of upping the accountability...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

new GTaC! A discussion with Dr. Chris Connor about his research on the electronic music scene and gay dating apps + life lessons that can be taken from the respective projects. thesocietypages.org/theory/2026/...

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

and, perhaps most importantly, organized and chaired by Alex Channon, University of Brighton.

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MASA Winter Webinar: “On Community in Martial Arts" 4 February, 9:00AM-10:30AM - Online via MS Teams www.eventbrite.com/e/masa-winte... feat. panellists Lyn Jehu, University of South Wales and Jack Sugden, Liverpool John Moores University, discussion led by Kyle Green, SUNY Brockport.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

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