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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Nathan Kalman-Lamb is a lecturing fellow at Duke University, where he teaches on labor, race, and sport. He is the author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport and co-author of Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sports.

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opinion
‘RELENTLESS’

This Is the Only Way to End College Sports Exploitation

College athletes are still not being paid for playing sports, while coaches and staff can earn millions. How is that remotely fair?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

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opinion
‘SOME KIND OF BUBBLE’

Players Rip a ‘F*cking Corrupt’ College Football Season

This was a sport stripped of its festive veneer, leaving the rough, unvarnished reality of brute labor without pay and endless reminders that “the NCAA can do whatever it wants.”

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

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