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Assistant Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.

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Actor Dean Cain, who played Superman in the '90s, reveals he joined ICE Dean Cain, who starred in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," made a recruitment video for the agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

No one tell me anything about Teri Hatcher's politics. I simply do not want to know

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Amazing how he kept the New Deal fresh for all that time.

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AEJMC Sports Comm Friday, August 8th Schedule. Please refrain from throwing personal items at the presenters, that's a jerk move.

8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m., Salon 9 [LB2L]
Scholar-to-Scholar Poster Session β€œGender in Sports and Entertainment Media”

11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Foothill C [2FL]
Refereed Paper Sessions β€œRepair, Resistance, and Reimagination: Journalism’s Role in Sports Culture”; β€œInnovation, Messaging, and Influence in Sports Media”

3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., Foothill G1/G2 [2FL]
World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) Panel β€œCovering Sports in the Digital Age: Beyond the Scoreboard”

AEJMC Sports Comm Friday, August 8th Schedule. Please refrain from throwing personal items at the presenters, that's a jerk move. 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m., Salon 9 [LB2L] Scholar-to-Scholar Poster Session β€œGender in Sports and Entertainment Media” 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Foothill C [2FL] Refereed Paper Sessions β€œRepair, Resistance, and Reimagination: Journalism’s Role in Sports Culture”; β€œInnovation, Messaging, and Influence in Sports Media” 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., Foothill G1/G2 [2FL] World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) Panel β€œCovering Sports in the Digital Age: Beyond the Scoreboard”

AEJMC Sports Comm Friday, August 8th teaching panel Schedule.

9:45 a.m. to 11 a.m., Salon 15 [LB2L]
Teaching Panel Session ”Expanding Perspectives and Adapting Approaches in Sport Communication: Challenges and Opportunities for Undergraduate Education”

1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Pacific G/H [4FL]
Teaching Panel Session β€œTeaching Students How to Use Social Media Effectively: Challenges and Opportunities”

AEJMC Sports Comm Friday, August 8th teaching panel Schedule. 9:45 a.m. to 11 a.m., Salon 15 [LB2L] Teaching Panel Session ”Expanding Perspectives and Adapting Approaches in Sport Communication: Challenges and Opportunities for Undergraduate Education” 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Pacific G/H [4FL] Teaching Panel Session β€œTeaching Students How to Use Social Media Effectively: Challenges and Opportunities”

Hey #aejmc25 attendees, wake up and do it all again! Today, the SCIG has several sessions including two teaching panels. See you soon!

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It’s about fairness in women’s sports.

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Crypto traders are not out here making a great case for societal utility.

07.08.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could end homelessness, but instead creates statelessness.

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The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the Γ‰cole des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

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ICE's child soldier brigade, coming soon

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San Francisco is still a pretty cool place.

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I'm not an Adorno guy on mass culture, but his ideas eat and leave no crumbs on AI.

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"Sources"?

Which sources?

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Nice

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Speedway Slammer sounds like one of those fake sex acts 14-year-olds make up to horrify each other.

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Who could have guessed?

05.08.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This poll doesn't have my answer, which is that I prefer them to be drawn into the shapes of Simpsons characters.

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just saw a 1-star google maps review of a community college that said "i only go to this joke of a college because it's cheap and the professors are good." what ... what else do you want out of a college my guy

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Picturing Texas Rangers getting into a shootout with the Illinois State Police on the Miracle Mile.

04.08.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who grew up watching the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons, I can say with certainty that Geno is completely wrong here.

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I think Sydney Sweeney is a pretty good actress and pitchwoman, but every news cycle about her makes me want to go swimming in fentanyl.

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David Tepper is on it.

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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

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Americans are still waiting on Trump's pledge of IVF treatment for all On the campaign trail, Donald Trump said the U.S. would be "paying for" IVF.

Damn that's crazy

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What a world.

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This has been a fantastic match

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Perfect safe word

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One of our neighbors' wi-fi is named "911=Inside Job"

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Goodhart's Law says that when a metric becomes a goal, it ceases to be a useful measurement. Now that the person who holds the BLS job needs the jobs number to look a certain way, the data are basically useless as a measure of the economy.

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Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare
By Associated Press
UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET
SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

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Spurs captain Son Heung-min to leave English Premier League club Captain Son Heung-min has announced that he will be leaving Tottenham Hotspur. At a media conference in Seoul, Son said his decision to leave the English Premier League club was ’the most difficult” o...

Sad to see my favorite Tottenham player move on. Sort of hope he lands in MLS so I might be able to watch him in person.

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