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Bill Russell leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of winning championships and civil rights activism during a time of racial segregation.
Often dismissed as ‘horseplay,’ sexual assaults perpetrated by boys athletes against their teammates persist in high school sports, a researcher observes.
Moving towards an athlete-centred approach to sport is one step in the right direction
An analysis of 267 NFL offensive and defensive coordinators since 2003 finds that the Chiefs’ Eric Bieniemy’s odds of being hired as a head coach would have gone up significantly if he weren’t Black.
Creative problem-solving using metaphors can help us deal with the long-term anxiety and challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
Allegations of abuse and harassment are not uncommon in Canadian sport. The closure of the Montréal site for Canada’s artistic swimming team is in part due to a lack of oversight for young athletes.
How sports coaches can inspire their team to defy the odds and win.
Why do female college coaches seem to be held to a different standard than their male counterparts?
Sponsorship, whereby a mentor in a powerful role advocates for a mentee, is what’s needed for women to advance in coaching.
Sports training often involves exposure to challenging situations to boost performance. But this can cross the line into emotional abuse. Here’s how to recognise when that happens.
As Canada examines new measures to protect young athletes, an emphasis on rigorous police checks and educating would-be offenders is not the answer.
Even though young leaders and old leaders may have different approaches, one isn’t necessarily better than the other. But in order to succeed, a leader better be able to bridge generational divides.
Even though Maryland college football coach DJ Durkin has been fired, his 11th hour ouster will not rid college football of some of its deepest problems, argue two scholars on race and college sports.
Despite participation rates in women’s sport growing exponentially in recent years, the number of women in coaching positions has remained frustratingly stagnant.
Research shows that coaching employees makes them feel valued and empowered, and builds better relationships with management.
Exercise practitioners are taught to help us set goals to get active. But the way we set goals may be unhelpful, or worse, make it even harder for us to exercise.
Methods used to get athletes to their peak would be unacceptable outside of the stadium, but success papers over a lot of cracks.
Racewalking has been part of the Olympic Games since 1904, but gets little respect in the United States. That might change if Americans knew a little more about it.
Politicians are often eager to embrace the support of sports stars. But when Donald Trump trots out a very specific type of athlete and coach at his events, who’s he really trying to appeal to?
Top contributors
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching, Deakin University
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Director of Sport, Performance and Health, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor in Coaching and Sport Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW
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Former Professor of Management and Business History
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Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Cultural Studies of Sport Media, University of Rhode Island
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Programs and Partnerships), Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Southern Cross University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Dean of Business, University of Wollongong