Don’t spit, change out of your kit at home and clean match balls. These are just some of the ways sport is changing as restrictions ease.
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The league is facing financial ruin unless it restarts play soon. Yet, even with strict biosecurity measures in place, there are significant questions as to whether it can effectively police itself.
Financial scandals have damaged the integrity of both clubs. With the rewards for cheating so high, harsher punishments are needed.
The springbok emblem was introduced under white rule in South Africa and by retaining it, it remains a burden for many South Africans who followed the Rugby World Cup.
The AFL and NRL have larger fan bases, and soccer more youth participants. Rugby union must find new ways to grow interest in the sport to reclaim its place in the Australian sporting landscape.
One of the most pressurised roles in the pressure cooker that is the Rugby World Cup is the referee. Threatening fans are causing them to quit the game at all levels.
Body mass matters in rugby. But other factors play a bigger role in determining victory.
The Rugby World Cup an tell us a lot about banking.
After a report found evidence of CTE in the brains of two former NRL players, the league is facing the possibility of a class-action lawsuit. Here’s what former players would need to prove.
Travel is commonly perceived as “the” major factor affecting a team’s performance.
Several Indigenous rugby league players have vowed not to sing the national anthem during this week’s State of Origin match. Will the protest spark a conversation, or fizzle out?
Folau has sought a full code of conduct committee hearing to decide his future with Rugby Australia. Depending on how the tribunal rules, the case could be heading to federal court next.
Be careful before you rush your kids into so-called “talent identification” sports programs – you might be putting a whole lifetime of enjoyable exercise at risk.
Why has professional sport become the lens through which so many young men in the Global South are redefining their future?
Elite football teams that do not have a winter break lose on average 303 more player-days per season to injuries than those teams that do.
A mix of alcohol, heightened emotions and toxic masculinity are to blame for surges in family violence perpetrated by sports fans.
Football could take a leaf from rugby union’s book on how to treat head-injured players, pitch side.
Race still plays a big part in South African society. Sport is no exception.
Wallaby and Waratahs player Israel Folau’s recent comments about gay people are just one example of the homophobia in Australian sport. Recent research suggests the problem is widespread.
New research has found a tipping point which pushes the probability of rugby player concussion above 50%.
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Professor in Sports Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Physiology, Bangor University
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Associate professor, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher at the College of Sport & Exercise Science and Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Lecturer, Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Portsmouth
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Research fellow, University of the Free State
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Professor of Masculinities, Sexualities and Sport, University of Winchester
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Limpopo
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Dean, College of Sport & Exercise Science and Chair of VU Sport Strategy, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
