Kyle Green
@kylethegreen.bsky.social
Hi. *Scholar of culture, sport, and society. *Host & Producer of Give Theory a Chance & Give Methods a Chance. *Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport. *co-host of the Dear Adam Silver podcast w/ Abigail Smithson
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
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...
“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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It is wild how, across the board, our overlords are like "what if we made the bread and circuses more expensive"
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.
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
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2mo agoJosh Hokit’s slur against Michelle Obama concluded an evening already teeming with vulgarity. "Let reminders of it attach itself to every oligarch, Republican, Trump family member, and corporation that went along with this cage fight."
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)
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo agoIMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services
This is the story. Questions of taste is interesting and useful, but not where the focus needs to be.
Patrick Skinner@pmskinner.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo this admin lets a private company, that the president owns stock in, use the White House and grounds for a pay-per-view spectacle using troops & staff, rents out ads everywhere, and has it streaming on the company whose monopolistic merger it just approved. Grift never ending
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.
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.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo agoTrump stages show of political domination with UFC bout on White House lawn ft.trib.al/EBCQUjY
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).
Karim Zidan@karimzidan.com · 2mo agoAnduril, the UFC’s new (and highly controversial) defense tech partner, wants to transform warfare & surveillance with AI—and host military-themed boxing events in the process www.sportspolitika.news/p/ufc-white-...
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!
Inae Oh@inaeoh.bsky.social · 2mo agoI think I found a new beat?! Roar! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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.
Anthony DiCicco@adicicco.bsky.social · 2mo agoDr. Céline Gounder (wife of the late Grant Wahl) just shared this piece: Grant Wahl Should Be Covering this World Cup. It touches on the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and reminds us, no one was better at juxtaposing the world & soccer than Grant. Give it a read. open.substack.com/pub/grantwah...
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...
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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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…—>
Inae Oh@inaeoh.bsky.social · 2mo agoWrote about "the UFC" and it was...........fascinating!!!
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!
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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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...
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
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...
Today is a good day to follow Generative AI Slop-Free news outlets bsky.app/starter-pack...
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...
Shudder calls the corners — and some of the smartest minds in horror — to conjure a tale that needs telling.
1000 WOMEN IN HORROR Review: An Overdue Conversation Starter
Shudder calls the corners — and some of the smartest minds in horror — to conjure a tale that needs telling.
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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...
#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...
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/...
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.
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.
