As the 2026 World Cup draws to a close, the focus has been on packed stadiums — but in an Ontario city, connection grows on informal fields, where soccer turns diversity into shared belonging.
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Nigeria won a fifth consecutive AfroBasket Championship with its women’s basketball team.
The study examined the school backgrounds of over 1,000 elite men’s cricketers in eight countries over 30 years.
Community sport already faced financial difficulties and funding cuts – coronavirus will only make this worse.
What experiences do trans people have of recreational sport?
As the contentious Sydney Football Stadium redevelopment shows, Australians want their sports grounds to be of benefit to the whole community, not just sports fans and the elite.
What does the sale of the ‘home of football’ have to do with grassroots development?
The Premier League may well be flying, but right now, English football is dying.
Without addresses inequalities in sport and diversifying funding, there will always be a problem in getting ordinary people interested in sport.
Labour hasn’t made any new evident spending pledges for sports. Is it failing to see sport as a crucial part of culture?
England’s worst ever performance at a World Cup inevitably provokes a critical post mortem of what went wrong and how to ensure the team’s future success. As well as the performances of the current crop…
Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster has said she revealed details about sexual abuse by her coach when she was young in order to “break the taboo about abuse as a whole.” There are certainly issues within…
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