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Moneyball tactics and a deluge of new money have served up a season of shocks and drama.
Once the stuff of tweeting birds and rolling cartoon eyes, bumps on the head are now linked to dementia. Will Smith’s latest movie tells how sports authorities tried to cover it up.
Despite Australia squandering $43 million on a failed bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Lowy football dynasty lives on.
The beautiful game has always had an ugly side to its relationship with the press, but are things now going too far?
The competitors of the robot world cup are creeping closer to the goal of a robotic team that can beat the best human players.
As I watched the Women’s World Cup final recently with my family, my 11-year-old son, who plays on a local soccer team, remarked that he was amazed at how quickly and how often the US team scored. “Seriously…
Language can subtly undermine women’s sports in a number of ways.
The terrible reputation of cheaters, divers, fraudsters and hooligans in the Premier League and beyond may be placing an artificial cap on the growth of the sister sport
Africa is perfectly capable of competing with the rest of the world on fields and tracks, and in organisational terms too.
The Women’s World Cup has become a hugely popular, global event. But what’s happening at the club level?
Answers to the challenging question of why Africans unanimously supported Sepp Blatter for a 5th term – and what they portend for the future.
Blatter’s decision to step down shocked the world. We asked a few academics to weigh in on what it means.
The inside story of an Interpol conference (sponsored by FIFA) on how to use education and research to tackle match fixing and corruption in soccer.
The FIFA chief’s surprise resignation was the only halfway decent choice he had left. Now it’s up to the reformers to clean house.
The two Champions League finalists already know they have around €70m in the bag.
I have lived in the US for over three decades. And I have never seen soccer – that is, real “football” – dominate the front pages of US newspapers for so many days and with so many stories. In that sense…
The US move against corruption in FIFA, which has been both praised and condemned, strengthens America’s soft power around the world.
Corruption at the pinnacle of sports sets a tone for all the rest. Targeting its roots is the right thing to do no matter what comes of the FBI’s investigation.
Our study found that 8% of the 1,684 elite Australian athletes we surveyed said they had used at least one of six illicit drugs – including ecstasy, cocaine and cocaine – over the previous year.
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University
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Principal Research Fellow in Sociology of Sport, University of Brighton
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Kinesiology & Physical Education; Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Doctoral student in Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, La Trobe University
