@michaelmaccambridge.com.bsky.social
Author of “America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation,” “The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America,” and other books.
Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »
Good Night World
30.04.2025 21:03 — 👍 39418 🔁 8977 💬 483 📌 236On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
24.04.2025 17:07 — 👍 29953 🔁 5312 💬 1472 📌 601It’s a weird thing. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/in-the-natio...
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Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here.
www.kqed.org/news/1203596...
"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...
14.04.2025 20:21 — 👍 32087 🔁 8632 💬 672 📌 317My favorite McIlroy story: he asked Sergio Garcia why he would defect to LIV. "To get paid what I deserve," Garcia said. McIroy reportedly replied something to the effect of, "Sergio. We play golf. We don't deserve to be paid at all."
13.04.2025 22:30 — 👍 64 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 2“I want a leaderboard that makes sense.”—DJ
Mission accomplished.
Firmino-esque.
05.03.2025 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We could also just plan to take the spring off for a celebratory drinking binge.
27.02.2025 04:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0can’t make it three words without fucking up a basic possessive apostrophe
24.02.2025 20:34 — 👍 321 🔁 40 💬 15 📌 0Very timely. Thank you!
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Be the most historically learned @chiefs.bsky.social fan at your Super Bowl party this Sunday with the team's 1960s-era origin story (as the *Dallas Texans*) via our Episode 3 with "Lamar Hunt: A Life in Sports" author @michaelmaccambridge.com! goodseatsstillavailable.com/listen/2017/...
07.02.2025 21:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Endorse.
03.02.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On this day four years ago, I checked my blood pressure while I was watching the attack on the Capitol. The upper number was 190, I was so angry. I'm STILL angry about it.
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Going to be a good night.
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My annual modest exercise in public service: 8 1/2 hours of rock, soul, pop, jazz and R&B Christmas music. With new adds this year from Sabrina Carpenter, Zooey Deschanel, the Roots, Walker Hayes, Jordin Sparks, and a banger from Cher.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1eM...
It’s December 1st and we should all pay homage to Rosa Parks today. On this day in 1955 she decided not to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama, and well the rest is history. We are all going to need to channel our Rosa Park’s for the next four years! Thank you Rosa for showing us how to #Resist
01.12.2024 19:05 — 👍 13808 🔁 3245 💬 219 📌 133What he said.
17.11.2024 13:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Where’s the Liverpool FC starter pack, mate?
14.11.2024 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First time trying to link something on BlueSky. Glitch. Thanks for the assist.
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23.08.2024 00:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for the kind words, and close read. It was inevitable, I suppose, that some would assume the book was pure nostalgia. It’s gratifying when readers grasp the larger point, that the decade was crucial in shaping the landscape of American sports today.
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