In Recognition of a Quarter Century of Service and Scholarship
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Abstract
The year 2025 and the volume 49 mark a significant, watershed moment for the Journal of Sport and Social Issues (henceforth, JSSI).They mark the first time in almost a quarter century that the Editor-in-Chief of the journal is not CL Cole.As many of you now know, Cole has stepped down after some 20-plus years in the Editor's Chair, an impressive run that has left an indelible imprint on the journal and the field.When Cole assumed the editorship of JSSI, few could have envisioned their tenure would last roughly half the life of the journal.Remarkable as that may be, the longevity of Cole's editorship is less significant than the manner in which they ensured the journal remained at the vanguard of critical sport studies.Among the characteristics that marked Cole's editorship was the unerring ability to identify work, empirical and theoretical, which articulated the complexities of contemporary sport-society relations and oftentimes presaged unfolding social problems within the sporting world and in terms of sport's impacts in the wider world.While many of us rest within our replicative academic comfort zones, Cole championed work that pushed boundaries and assumptions, even established critical perspectives, to the ever-changing socio-political sporting landscape.Allied to this, Cole resisted the sporting parochialism which threatens many sport publications as well as some critical sport scholarship.Throughout their editorial tenure, Cole's commitment to a radical contextuality ensured that the journal was populated with articles which, in Stuart Hall's terms, identified how discrete aspects of sport culture were complexly, and oftentimes contradictorily related to everything else.In other words, Cole remained committed to and guided by the quest for sport scholarship that was about both sport and social issues in and around sport, just as the journal's title has always announced.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".