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Ann Pegoraro

@sportmgmtprof.bsky.social

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Sport mgmt prof 🇨🇦| gender equity | women in sport | digital sport | retired pickle baller |

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 24d

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25d

Whoa.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 7

"If we exclude 2020, when the pandemic wreaked havoc on the economy, the first eight months of this year show the slowest job growth in the U.S. since 2009, when the economy was still hemorrhaging jobs from the Great Recession..."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

U.S. job growth turns ugly over the summer as Trump’s economic agenda falters

As MSNBC’s Ali Velshi summarized, “Turns out firing the ref doesn’t change the score.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 7

blue = biden
red = trump

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 6

Six-time Stanley Cup-winning goaltender Ken Dryden dies of cancer at age 78, Montreal Canadiens say.

Hall of Fame Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden dies of cancer at age 78

Ken Dryden, the Hall of Fame goaltender who helped the Montreal Canadiens win six Stanley Cup titles in the 1970s, has died after a fight with cancer. He was 78.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ken Dryden has died.
A Hockey Hall of Famer with the Montreal Canadiens, he won six Stanley Cups, the Conn Smythe, Calder and five Vezinas.
A best-selling author, he also served in Parliament from 2004 to 2011.

Ann Pegoraro @sportmgmtprof.bsky.social · Aug 30

And academics from many other disciplines!!

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com

Urbanists too.

Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · Aug 30

Et voila! Case proven.
#solar

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com

Urbanists too.

Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · Jul 29

“In June of 2024, the Washington Post reported the WNBA’s losses had grown to $50 million! Yes, while Bloomberg had reported in 2023 that revenues had doubled from 2019 to 2023, the WNBA/NBA insisted that losses had grown five times!”

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Jan 27

PSA: Bluesky is a public social network, like a blog. Posts are visible to anyone online. Built on the AT Protocol, it supports PUBLIC, portable conversations by storing data in accessible repositories.

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · Jul 24

I have been talking about pay in the WNBA for nearly ten years.

It feels like this time, the story has changed.

I did three interviews today (two TV interviews, one video podcast) and it seems like so many people now understand how much the WNBA players are NOT being paid what they are owed!

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Lauren Smith @laurensmith.bsky.social · Jul 22

They went from “we listen to science & data” to “we talked with federal officials.”

FYI, this doesn’t just affect trans women.

“The policy says that nonbinary athletes, transgender men and intersex athletes will also be limited to competing in the men’s category.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

U.S. Olympic Officials Bar Transgender Women From Women’s Competitions

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Birnbaum @justbirny.bsky.social · Jul 8

SCOOP: U.S. Soccer star Catarina Macario is joining Nike on a 10-year, $10 million sponsor deal. (She was previously with Adidas.)

More details on the new partnership, which cements Macario as one of the highest-paid players in her sport, at @Forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/justin...

U.S. Soccer Star Catarina Macario Scores 10-Year, $10 Million Sponsor Deal From Nike

The partnership is among the richest in a sport where women’s shoe contracts usually run in the mid-five figures per year—but the paychecks are rising fast.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · Jul 7

Goose and a Watermelon.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · Jul 7

Every bunny was kung fu fiiiiightiiiing 🎵🎶

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 7

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Jul 5

Happy bear cub playing in sprinkler is what every #bluesky timeline needs... 🐻🤗

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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · Jul 5

American friends, do know many Canadian universities will still accept applications for fall entry? I'm Dean of an excellent College of Arts at a beautiful university in a small very safe city. And we're not far from the US border.

www.uoguelph.ca/admission/un...

Apply to Undergraduate Programs | International Students

The University of Guelph, and everyone who studies here, explores here, teaches here and works here is committed to one simple purpose: To Improve Life

www.uoguelph.ca

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University of Guelph News @uofguelphnews.bsky.social · Jul 4

#UofG | Dr. Ann Pegoraro talks to CBC Sports about why now is the moment for women's sports.

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Women's sports are booming. Why now? | CBC Sports

The rise across all women's sports has been steadily gaining momentum in recent years. From soccer, to hockey, to volleyball, women's sports are experiencing a record-shattering surge like never befor...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Jul 2

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Civility Analyzer, designed to assess online interactions' tone and quality by automatically identifying toxic and prosocial content in text-based datasets. socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/17/c...

Communalytic Introduces Civility Analyzer Module - Social Media Lab

A New Research Module for Identifying Both Toxic and Prosocial Interactions in Online Discourse Toronto, Ontario – [06/17/2025] – We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Civility Analyzer mod...

socialmedialab.ca

Ann Pegoraro @sportmgmtprof.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day

a poster that says happy canada day in red letters

Alt: a poster that says happy canada day in red letters

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Jun 25

Yesterday, we soft-launched two new features for PoliDashboard.org: Semantic Search and an AI Ads Summarizer to help users find deceptive or suspicious advertisers. polidashboard.org/how-to-use-p...

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Barbara Ravel @barbararavel.bsky.social · Jun 23

See page 19 for "The mothers' reckoning: Analyzing media narratives of queer and heterosexual hockey playing mothers" 🏳️‍🌈🏒 ⬇️

Screenshot of page 29 of the magazine with the article, including pictures of the four co-authors

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 21

The Senegalese women’s national basketball team had to cancel training camp in the US after 11+ members of their team, including five players, were denied visas.

Meanwhile, the US intends to host the World Cup and Olympics while Trump is in office.

t.co/pFrEnUWUC0

The Senegal women’s national basketball team cancelled a 10-day training camp in the U.S. from June 22 to July 3 after the U.S. rejected visas for five players, six staff members and a ministerial delegation, the Senegalese Basketball Federation announced in a statement Friday.

The rejected visas come weeks after the Trump administration announced a travel ban on 12 countries and visa restrictions on another seven. That original group did not include Senegal, but The Washington Post and other outlets reported last week that the administration was considering expanding the ban to 36 more countries, including Senegal. The expanded ban has not yet taken effect.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 21

The University of South Carolina will impose a $472 annual mandatory fee on students to subsidize the athletic department.

This is an incredibly problematic way to cover the cost of paying athletes + will significantly undermine solidarity between students + students who are campus athletic workers

Just got clarification from South Carolina.

The $300 annual "athletics auxiliary fee" is ***in addition*** to the $172 athletics fee.

So students will now pay a total of $472 annually in mandatory athletics fees. That's over $18 million a year for USC

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Martine Dennie @mdennie.bsky.social · Jun 21

Read Echoes on Ice, the research magazine for The Hockey Conference 2025, here: umanitoba.ca/law/sites/la...

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mcc @dryad.technology · Jun 20

Ipsos poll finds Canadians approving of both LGBTQ+ rights and trans rights in specific more than other countries, and finds support for trans people is still rising slightly here amidst the propaganda campaign that's meeting with successes elsewhere:

globalnews.ca/news/1124973...

Canadians are ‘leading’ in LGBTQ2 support amid global declines: Ipsos - National | Globalnews.ca

Data released Friday by Ipsos in its annual Pride Report showed Canada was among the few nations where support has gone up among 26 countries surveyed.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · May 14

Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all