The Rabbit Hole

*Cross-posted on Hockey in Society* Viacheslav Fetisov won two Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998; and, he has a wheel barrow full of gold medals to his name from the ...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-last-game-hockey-and-climate-change.html

*Cross-posted on Hockey in Society * I was getting my skates sharpened at my local hockey store and while killing time I wandered over to the hat wall and saw the products above. The hats i...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2018/07/is-hockey-for-everyone-or-is-hockey-for.html

I taught a lecture on (dis)ability and sport recently and ended our critical discussion by highlighting Esther Vergeer (someone who I have written about previously ) because I thought she was...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-lack-of-depth-dominance-and-dismissal.html

Cambodian Women's National Basketball Team. Photo from Phnom Penh post. The PyeongChang Paralympics wrapped on March 18th with much less fanfare and television coverage than the Olympics r...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2018/03/class-struggle-and-paralympics-case-of.html

The #MeToo movement defined the end of 2017 and has thankfully carried over into 2018 with some help from Hollywood. At the recent Golden Globe awards, the women (and some men) of Hollywood u...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2018/01/ultimate-beastmaster-and-casual-sexual.html

Photo from Excelle Sports. 2017 has been a unique year so let's take a moment to look back at a random sampling of some of the progressive successes that have taken place in the world of s...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/12/2017-recap-good-bad-and-irrelevant.html

Football demi-God, Tom Brady, recently released a fitness, nutrition, and wellness regimen called "The TB12 Method." He argues that adhering to this method will hopefully enable him to conti...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-tom-brady-method-and-200-pyjamas.html

Photo from Iran Daily. Much of the language surrounding the recent surge in athlete activism uses the word respect. Respect for the American flag, respect for the national anthem, respect ...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-does-respect-have-to-do-with-it.html

The ball you see is the Worlds Largest Basketball. I was recently in Knoxville, Tennessee for a few days. TripAdvisor is always one of my first Internet searches when I am trip planning and ...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-womens-basketball-hall-of-fame.html

Roxane Gay. Photo from Elle. "This is to say, I know what it means to hunger without being hungry. My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in th...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-multitude-of-hungers-fat-bodies-and.html

John Isner and Nicholas Mahut after the longest match ever played. Photo from W Top. Lindsay Gibbs recently wrote a lengthy piece for Think Progress detailing why women tennis players con...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/07/changing-conversation-why-everyone.html

Photo from BeautyvBrains. Body shaming exists in all cultures. What is considered "shameful" can vary as much geographically as it has historically. Fatness used to connote wealth in time...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/06/east-asian-fat-shaming-neither-thin.html

It was recently (and QUIETLY) reported that the United Nations Office on Sport and Development and Peace (UNOSDP) closed on April 30, 2017 as a cost-saving measure, a fact that is interestin...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-ioc-and-united-nations-strategic.html

Adventure photographer Jimmy Chin posted this photo on his Instagram to celebrate National Parks Week. I took up hiking purely for photographic adventures. I relish opportunities to take ph...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/05/round-table-are-we-loving-nature-to.html

Torch relay. Photo from NBC. Netflix has a 45 minute documentary titled, Hitler's Olympics available right now. The Olympics is often chided for the commercialism and spectacle that is inv...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/04/hitlers-olympics-pomp-circumstance-and.html

Photo from What is Workplace Wellness. > Imagine your next staff appraisal. Do you feel you have had your > training needs met? Tick. Timekeeping satisfactory? Tick. Loy...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/04/healthy-to-work-implications-of.html

Photo from Focusing on Wildlife. I watched The Cove documentary recently on Netflix Canada. If you haven't seen it, it details the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan where, at one point, 2...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/03/seal-oil-athlete-performance-and.html

Stadium 2, Indian Wells. Photo by Me. I recently visited Palm Springs/Indian Wells, California to see the BNP Paribas Open. For non-tennis aficionados the BNP Paribas Open (more commonly ref...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/03/tennis-on-colonized-lands-trip-to.html

Photo from ESPN. Reebok just released these sweet t-shirts as a hat tip to Senator Elizabeth Warren's thwarted attempt to stop the confirmation of incoming Attorney General, Jeff Sessions...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/02/shepersisted-commodified-resistance-in.html

Jackie Robinson. Photo from Chicago Mag. This post is inspired by the work of Robin DiAngelo and her attempt to develop racial literacy for white people (but it's really for anyone who has...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/02/rewriting-black-history-month-re.html

Left to Right: Don Gummer (Streep's husband), Meryl Streep, 50 Cent watching the New York Knicks and LA Lakers. Photo from Closer Weekly. Yesterday I was sitting at my computer thinking "W...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2017/01/roundtable-what-is-art-meryl-streep.html

When you spend your days studying sport, watching sport, and/or playing sports it can be easy for individual memories to melt into one vague recollection. With this in mind, I think it's importan...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2016/12/2016-highs-lows-and-i-dont-knows.html

Satnam Singh. Photo from Vancouver Basketball. Netflix recently added One in a Billion, a documentary about the first Indian-born NBA draft pick, Satnam Singh. I didn't know anything about...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2016/12/film-review-one-in-billion-story-of.html

Photo from Pixels Talk. The Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement has been become a real social force since 2005, when the United Nations named it the International Year of Sport ...

http://cszto.blogspot.com/2016/11/signal-boost-boxing-for-female-and.html

Photo from Astroturf.com. When you think of sports and multinational corporations names like Nike, Budweiser, and some bank or insurance company probably come to mind, but what about Monsa...

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