Often, women’s sport isn’t seen on users’ digital media feeds. This is not a glitch, it is a structural flaw in how digital platforms serve content.
- Professor of International Sport Business, Head of Sport Business Insights Group, Victoria University
As the AFLW prepares for its grand final, it’s clear the competition needs a strategic overhaul.
Boycott actions often do more harm to individual athletes than to the condemned regime.
How well are the Tokyo Olympics prepared for a COVID crisis when there is still an outbreak in the country, the vaccination rates are low and athletes are asked to socially distance?
As the business of sport booms why does this come with an increasing frequency of integrity scandals of bribery, corruption and cheating?
The tennis world is the latest sport to be rocked by allegations of corruption, this time by reports of match fixing. So who are the winners and losers when such allegations are made?
Australia has struggled to win Olympic medals after the success in Sydney in 2000. But there’s hope that may change as we head towards the Rio games in 2016.
Delays in stadium construction. Poor working conditions for World Cup workers. Massive budget blowouts. Nationwide protests. Ignoring the needs of millions of struggling Brazilian families. All of these…
Qatar did not win the right to host football’s World Cup in 2022 legitimately. That was impossible. Awarding the World Cup to Qatar was clearly not about passion for the game, nor about offering communities…
Sport has emerged as an unlikely hero for one nation that continues to deal with violent internal conflicts. Afghanistan beat Australia at last month’s under-19 Cricket World Cup in Abu Dhabi, while the…
Last week’s announcement that English Premier League club Manchester City, backed by a mega-rich Arab businessman and member of the royal family, had bought a majority stake into the bottom dwelling Melbourne…
“You just lost 9% of your value, what’s your response to that?” That’s how an interview with your favourite football player might kick off if US startup Fantex succeeds in building a global trading market…
The debate surrounding elite sport funding intensified again this week when newly appointed Minister for Sport, Senator Don Farrell, sent a hard and direct message to sport: …you have to perform or lose…
By using performance-enhancing drugs, even before he was diagnosed with cancer, it would appear Lance Armstrong was obsessed with becoming and staying a winner early on. Indeed, in his two-part interview…
Yesterday it was announced that the UCI (International Cycling Federation) will back the US Anti-Doping Agency’s (USADA) decision to ban Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France…
In the game of Australian Rules Football (as with other football codes), few pieces of equipment are more important than the football itself. And yet the relative attention paid to the ball by the AFL…
I am just going to throw this out there. In a radio interview last week I was asked if Australia should continue to participate in the global sports arms race and increase its investment in elite sport…
The knives are well and truly out. With no gold medals coming from champion Australian swimmers James Magnussen, Stephanie Rice, Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper and a handful of relay teams at the London…
It has taken too many silver medals to raise the issue to the top of the sport policy agenda.With a big thank you to the President of the Australian Olympic Committee John Coates, this morning from London…
All this fuss about how disappointing these Games are for Australia. How we are well down on the medal tally with countries such as New Zealand, North Korea and Borat’s Kazachstan ahead of us – on the…
Andrew Bolt in his Herald Sun column today argues that we, as a nation, need to work harder - not only as Olympians, but as a collective of Australians. He quotes US-based research that with an increase…
It just hit me when one of the commentators on Channel Nine dismissed a dramatic fall of horse and rider by merely uttering: “Oh, bad luck”. Here was this incredibly dedicated athlete (and his horse) who…
I was, like many of you, intrigued by the title of David Bishop’s article “Sex before sport: does it affect an athlete’s performance”, that he published on the Conversation website recently. It just happens…
It was the worst possible timing ever! I was moving house on the day of the opening ceremony. For years I have been set up with Foxtel to ensure that I was not going to miss any sporting event of great…
I was talking to a reporter of the website Euronews the other day, and he asked me why we, as a species continue to be so obsessed with sport. Why is it that irrespective of the increasingly dramatic changes…
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