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  • The Leafs Are Not Praxis
    May 12, 2025

    The Leafs Are Not Praxis

    Why are the Toronto Maple Leafs the Ultimate Anti-Praxis?

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  • The Spurs Didn’t Run a Search. That Was the Point.
    May 6, 2025

    The Spurs Didn’t Run a Search. That Was the Point.

    Gregg Popovich succession: San Antonio had the most attractive job in basketball and never posted it. Mitch Johnson had already done it twice before.

    Read more: The Spurs Didn’t Run a Search. That Was the Point.
  • Stanley Cup Politics: Canada’s Ritual of Empty Spectacle
    April 25, 2025

    Stanley Cup Politics: Canada’s Ritual of Empty Spectacle

    Politics in Canada isn’t broken, it’s functioning exactly as intended: as a pacifying spectacle, consumed just like playoff hockey.

    Read more: Stanley Cup Politics: Canada’s Ritual of Empty Spectacle
  • How Football Ultras Became a Pipeline From Stands to War
    April 16, 2025

    How Football Ultras Became a Pipeline From Stands to War

    Football ultras became a military pipeline when terrace networks converted loyalty, logistics and controlled violence into wartime organization.

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  • How the UFC’s Conflict Machine Became Trump’s Campaign
    April 13, 2025

    How the UFC’s Conflict Machine Became Trump’s Campaign

    UFC conflict model now runs Trump’s campaign. Steven Cheung’s hiring wasn’t a personnel choice — it was an institutional transfer of the spectacle machine.

    Read more: How the UFC’s Conflict Machine Became Trump’s Campaign
  • Why McDavid’s Overtime Goal Felt Like National Relief
    February 28, 2025

    Why McDavid’s Overtime Goal Felt Like National Relief

    Connor McDavid’s overtime goal revealed how hockey carries Canada’s unresolved nationalism, turning a win over the U.S. into collective relief.

    Read more: Why McDavid’s Overtime Goal Felt Like National Relief
  • The Super Bowl of Eternal Darkness: America’s Fading Legacy!
    February 10, 2025

    The Super Bowl of Eternal Darkness: America’s Fading Legacy!

    In a time of waning power and deep decay, America’s national spectacle has become the Super Bowl of Eternal Darkness, a mirror of a legacy in endless decline.

    Read more: The Super Bowl of Eternal Darkness: America’s Fading Legacy!
  • Whitecloud: ESPN Sportscaster’s Mockery Sheds Light on Legacy of Indigenous Racism in Hockey
    May 10, 2023

    Whitecloud: ESPN Sportscaster’s Mockery Sheds Light on Legacy of Indigenous Racism in Hockey

    Whitecloud incident exposes how hockey’s colonial past still shapes racism toward Indigenous peoples, and why confronting that legacy is essential today.

    Read more: Whitecloud: ESPN Sportscaster’s Mockery Sheds Light on Legacy of Indigenous Racism in Hockey
  • How The UFC is Colonial
    April 8, 2023

    How The UFC is Colonial

    As the UFC’s influence in Africa and the Global South continues to expand, the intricate ties between colonialism, combat sports, and mixed martial arts have come to the forefront.

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  • She Complained About a Relay. They Sent Her Home.
    October 1, 2021

    She Complained About a Relay. They Sent Her Home.

    Krystsina Tsimanouskaya criticised her coaches over a relay entry, not the president. Belarus tried to remove her from Tokyo, and the IOC intervened.

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