The economic outlook for World Cup host cities isn’t looking good – but there’s still time to change that.
- Professor of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University
The NBA Africa is making a play for expansion. Where does Barack Obama fit in?
When the integrity of sport lies tarnished, it is the right time to end the merry-go-round of Olympic bids and national oversight over performance and doping.
Reform of FIFA is clearly needed, but it must accommodate dissent of the anglo-centric world view.
Football is a huge deal in Europe but less so in the states. So why did it take action from Loretta Lynch to topple FIFA?
In a scandal that has rocked the American sporting world, David Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, was caught on tape excoriating his girlfriend for associating with black people…
In attempting to succeed as owner of a Major League Soccer team in Miami, Florida, David Beckham has taken on perhaps the biggest challenge of his career. The city is not short of major sports teams. It…
Sometimes sport really does make a difference in society. At least Nelson Mandela thought so. Though the movie Invictus plays with and stretches the reality of what happened in South Africa during the…
Since Europeans first arrived in the Americas, native peoples have been decimated. In North America, where assimilation was rare and conquest or theft of land has been the norm, things were particularly…
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