No, please not this deflategate crap again.

Teams use their own balls.

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No, please not this deflategate crap again.

Teams use their own balls.

It was only a joke...

https://web.uri.edu/english/meet/kyle-w-kusz/

Let this dipshit tell you were he's coming from, in his own words:


"Biography
Born and raised in Greece, New York, I attended Ithaca College as a naïve, first generation college student who only planned on playing soccer, taking some classes, and returning home after four years to be a physical educator and coach. Instead, the charismatic teaching of Dr. Stephen Mosher disrupted that plan and led to a life never imagined. Graduate school felt like being transported to another world replete with new types of people, ways of thinking, languages, norms, and value systems. Part of this otherworldly experience—both disorienting and thoroughly captivating—was being introduced to cultural criticism. While completing my dissertation, I spent three enjoyable years trying to fit into this new identity of ‘academic’ and experimenting with the art of collegiate teaching as an Instructor at Northern Illinois University. In 2003, I came to the Ocean State to work in URI’s Kinesiology department. In fall 2019, I became a faculty member in English with a joint appointment in the Gender & Women’s Studies program. And at least once a week you can find me still trying to learn about life through playing with a soccer ball.
Research
My research critically examines the patterns and particularities of the stories told about white men in popular culture, reading them as politicized allegories of particular moments in history. Thus far, my work has focused on stories produced in American sport media—especially the realms of spectacle, film, and celebrity. I conceptualize these stories as under-theorized political terrains that play a key pedagogical role in forming how various publics make sense of the changing ideas of race, gender, class, and nationalism that circulate in culture. More broadly, I take seriously the critical study of popular culture, understanding it not only as a key terrain through which people develop their perceptions and beliefs about themselves, their social worlds, and American/global history and culture, writ large, but as an index of the dynamic ideological currents circulating through various American social formations. Previously, I have written about the racial and gender politics of the performances, cultural representations, and personal narratives of sport celebrities like: Tom Brady, Andre Agassi, Lance Armstrong, Pat Tillman, and Freddy Adu; sport-related films like: Dogtown and Z Boys, Jerry Maguire, The Fan, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Murderball; and sport formations such as extreme sports and skateboarding. Some of these analyses can be found in my book, Revolt of the White Athlete: Race, Media and the Emergence of Extreme Athletes in America (Peter Lang: New York, 2007) and in various anthologies and journals. All of this work is united by a focus on illuminating the dynamic representational strategies and logics used to re-center whiteness, reproduce white male privilege, reconstruct white nationalism(s), and commodify blackness within specific historical conjunctures of post-civil rights era America.
As I begin this transition to English, I look forward to expanding the scope of my work beyond sport media and cultural formations (without leaving them behind completely) to examine more representations and performances of race and gender in contemporary American media culture and the everyday.
I welcome graduate study in popular culture, cultural studies, American studies, body politics, critical race theory, feminist theory, masculinity studies, sport media, and physical cultural studies in the post-civil rights era and contemporary United States.
Education
• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003: Kinesiology (Specialization: Cultural Studies of Sport and Physical Activity).
• Graduate Minor Certificate: Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research.
• M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996: Kinesiology (Specialization: Cultural Studies of Sport and Physical Activity).
• M.S., Ithaca College, 1994: Sports Studies (Minor: Sociology). "

Oh, and his inspiration? Dr Stephen Mosher?

https://faculty.ithaca.edu/smosher/

Stephen Mosher
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Faculty, School of Humanities and Sciences
Specialty: Sport and Popular Culture, Youth Sport, Sport as Political Resistance

Ithaca, NY 14850

^^^ What a dipshit this guy is! I can only imagine what he has to say about Pat Tillman.

Not wasting my dwindling time or brain cells on that crap. Fuck him.

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It constantly astounds me that these white snowflakes have a hatred of white people. How can they look at themselves in the mirror is a mystery to me. It is truly baffling.

I don't think it's a hatred of white people per se, but more a hatred of those white people whom they perceive as superior, but....in their little world, that could very well be 99.9% of the world's white population.

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Here is the "professor"



It constantly astounds me that these white snowflakes have a hatred of white people. How can they look at themselves in the mirror is a mystery to me. It is truly baffling.

Who does he vaguely resemble in appearance, michael moore, who does he definitely resemble in crap ideas, michael moore. Wish that mold would get broken!

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In 2003, I came to the Ocean State to work in URI’s Kinesiology department. In fall 2019, I became a faculty member in English with a joint appointment in the Gender & Women’s Studies program. And at least once a week you can find me still trying to learn about life through playing with a soccer ball.
Research

SO, your degree is in kinesiology and you were hired into the Kinesiology department however, you're now associated with the English Department along with the Gender & Women's Studies Department... Stay in your lane! You're a prime example of why the collegiate professorial profession beyond the STEM subjects is all fucked-up!

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My research critically examines the patterns and particularities of the stories told about white men in popular culture, reading them as politicized allegories of particular moments in history. Thus far, my work has focused on stories produced in American sport media—especially the realms of spectacle, film, and celebrity. I conceptualize these stories as under-theorized political terrains that play a key pedagogical role in forming how various publics make sense of the changing ideas of race, gender, class, and nationalism that circulate in culture.

Right, because there was a need for this study. You created this hypothesis to base your entire professional existence that white men in professional sports is bad, and is allegorical to every bad thing in the history of human kind. Good grief, who the fuck was the dean of your doctorate?

The problem is that people continue to pay colleges to get their kids "educated" by idiots like this. Just stop funding these "professors" and they will go back into their parents basements where they belong.

Kyle Kusz, a kinesiology professor at the University of Rhode Island.

I reviewed his CV, resume to nonacademic folks and am singularly unimpressed. He has published a book of sorts, not an article in a learned peer reviewed journal. His major is typical for athletes not learned scholars. Of course anyone can write a book about anything if they wish. The area in which he is commenting in typically the work of sociologists, and social psychologists who might actually know something about the subject matter.

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He told the website that because he brings mostly white teammates with him to the event it “tells a more particular story about the racial company he chooses to keep.”

OMG ! You mean every ethnic enclave in American is actually a den of racists?

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The professor, a New York native who received a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

Clearly a roll of toilet paper is of far more value then his diplomas ...

Stupid snow flake professor is just jealous of the man that succeeded in life,he is a turd that could not make it in the business world,I am curious of his I Q.

Another Prof blowed a brain fart.

I don't like him. Guess I'm "woke".

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The real reason why Tom Brady is popular is because, you guessed it, white supremacy.

OK if you say so.

I still don't know why people with mental diseases have a national voice on opinions. Irrational blather like that is completely ridiculous.

I've ranted this before, but when the overlords vanquish their enemies and fail to keep them down during an uprising, we have this occurring. The overlords have either taken the ways of the vanquished or have been taken down by the frog-in-the-ever-warming-water-pot effect. Either way, we've lost this country to the likes of this group of nuts - the insane running the asylum.

When I see that someone is a teacher or even worse a professor I become cautious of who they are. The majority of people in the teaching professions (not all) are uber liberals . It's sad that our education system is infested with these un-American scum.

What's the title of the book again?

Is it "Why I'm Disgusted With my Pathetic Achievements And The Man Who Makes Me Feel It?"

Unprecedented career successes. Model wife. Good looking. Leader. Loving family. Liked by millions. Record breaking achievements. Destined for a Hall of Fame. Makes millions.

You know, quite unlike a social justice resister with the mega audience of captive students 30 at a time - or is it 10?

There is a collective stupidity spreading in America.