England player Rachel Daly celebrates after the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022.
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We can build on the tournament to raise the profile of women’s sport.
National heroes? England’s women footballers have gained a huge following during the 2022 Euros.
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Women’s football is winning hearts and minds in Britain. But there’s still a lot of work to do to overcome ingrained male prejudice.
Many young athletes spend hours in the hot sun every day.
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Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.
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In a country that has largely avoided political and cultural hyper-partisanship, the Barassi Line is perhaps our strongest sociographic dividing characteristic, and certainly novel globally.
Sports may offer a strategy to re-integrate young people involved in violent activities back in to society.
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Sports can help prevent the involvement of youth in violent extremism.
England’s Beth Mead takes control.
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Achieving financial independence requires special tactics.
Joe Kennedy poses in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after his legal case, Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District, was argued before the court on April 25, 2022.
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Kennedy v. Bremerton, a case about a public school teacher’s prayer, helps close out a Supreme Court term in which religion was often in the spotlight.
Liverpool enjoyed the semi-final against Villarreal.
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They may not be funded by gas and oil, but these two sides are big money players.
The documentary fails to accurately portray Sheryl Gascoigne as the victim of domestic abuse perpetrated by her then-husband, Paul Gascoigne.
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Contemporary fiction on screen increasingly tells the stories of abusive men in a realistic way. This documentary does not.
Crowds at women’s professional football matches are breaking attendance records.
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Record attendance of professional women’s matches show support is higher than at any time in history.
Buffalo Bills owners Kim and Terry Pegula received a sweetheart deal from the state to finance their new stadium.
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Study after study has shown that stadiums are terrible public investments. Taxpayers rarely want to pay for them. So why do governments keep subsidizing them?
Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati (L) celebrates with teammates during the UEFA Women’s Champions League quarter final.
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Watching big events, like the Olympics, on television was a key route into fandom.
Sports-related sexual assaults often take place in the locker room.
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Often dismissed as ‘horseplay,’ sexual assaults perpetrated by boys athletes against their teammates persist in high school sports, a researcher observes.
Canada’s men’s soccer team officially qualified for the World Cup after defeating Jamaica in Toronto on March 27, 2022.
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It’s fair to say the Canadian men’s national soccer team’s victory on Sunday meant something, eh?
The Black Stars were an extension of Nkrumah’s political ideology
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Ghanaian footballers chased migration to the US after the removal of Nkrumah as president.
Graffiti by the artist J.Warx in Valencia, Spain.
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It may be soft power, but it still packs a punch.
Eric Bieniemy, who has been the Kansas City Chiefs’ offensive coordinator since 2018, has reportedly interviewed for 14 head-coaching jobs.
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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.
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Being a fan can be good for you – even in defeat.
Shows of support for Marcus Rashford.
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How clubs and support teams can help deflect the negative impact of social media.
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We analysed data from almost 88,000 matches played over 26 years across 11 major European leagues. This is what we found.