We’ve entered the home straight to Euro 2016.
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As football grapples with numerous scandals, the Euro 2016 draw brings a welcome focus on the game itself rather than on the intrigue of its boardrooms.
A boy plays next to a football centre in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township.
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Tokyo Sexwale, one of the candidates for football’s top job, has pledged to end what has been called ‘football’s slave trade’.
The FFA should pay more attention to recent history, rather than reacting to external forces with dubious intentions.
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No-one seriously believes that football – followed by so many, and accepted as legitimate by most of the community – could be killed off in Australia by a handful of media mouthpieces.
Liberté, egalité, fraternité.
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The beautiful game, the global game, the people’s game – football. This great sport, belongs to everyone and it unites us all.
Billionaire Frank Lowy was done like a dinner in the shark-infested waters of international football, led by Sepp Blatter (right).
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Despite Australia squandering $43 million on a failed bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Lowy football dynasty lives on.
Universities struggling with racist past?
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Clemson students have been organizing over the past two years on issues of racism and inclusion. What if the Clemson Tigers decided to do what the Missouri Tigers did?
Calls are mounting for Jose Mourinho to get the sack.
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Is it better for a club to sack their manager now or wait until later?
The Wallabies may be flying high at the World Cup, but the picture for rugby union at home looks reasonably bleak.
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Regardless of the World Cup final result, rugby union is dwarfed by the three other major football codes in Australia’s competitive football landscape.
Paying up. Can Derby County fans really get in for a tenner?
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A new study on how much fans are paying takes an upbeat view, but what’s missing?
Hawthorn is among the AFL clubs with the best years in the competition to premierships won ratio.
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Being a footy fan is not mainly about the glory of a premiership – it is much more about enjoying the gravel-shovelling entailed in each and every season your club goes without success.
All because we like kicking balls between two sticks.
Krivosheev Vitaly
Today’s digital morass has made sports rights infinitely more complicated than when Europe’s premier football event kicked off in 1993.
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is the top-rated fantasy player on Yahoo’s preseason rankings.
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While season-long fantasy football has been around for years, the rise of daily formats has radically changed how fans watch and root for teams.
Open arms.
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For Bayern Munich, helping refugees isn’t simply a moral obligation it’s good CSR.
Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer pumps his fist after besting Alabama in the Sugar Bowl this past January.
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For coaches like Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, it’s not just about X’s and O’s.
According to Judge Richard Berman, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell can no longer ‘dispense his own brand of industrial justice.’
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In going after Tom Brady, the NFL went all-in – and now must face a new reality.
No 38 Jarryd Hayne tries to avoid a tackle as he plays for the San Francisco 49ers against the Dallas Cowboys during his third preseason NFL game in the US.
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Three down, just one preseason game to go before Australian Jarryd Hayne will know if he’s made it play for the San Francisco 49ers in the competitive US NFL season.
Political goals for Russia’s gas giant.
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What does Gazprom hope to achieve with its deep and generous relationship with football?
Three threats loom before intercollegiate football.
Clint Mickel
Despite the huge attention to intercollegiate sports, is the day of reckoning approaching?
Left behind. Where do fans sit in the new hierarchy?
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The beautiful game has always had an ugly side to its relationship with the press, but are things now going too far?
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The competitors of the robot world cup are creeping closer to the goal of a robotic team that can beat the best human players.