The AFLW has come a long way in a short time. But amid calls for even faster expansion, more games and a longer season, it pays to remember that in footy you shouldn’t go too hard, too early.
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The boxing gym can be a place for young people to escape street life – but it’s also the home of a violent sport.
What experiences do trans people have of recreational sport?
Whistleblowing on doping can and does have life-altering implications for athletes – new research.
Making sport accessible to ordinary people can be achieved if communities take control of their organisations.
Foreign interest in American football tells us a lot about what is happening to sport in the 21st century.
At this year’s Australian Open you’ll see players moving sideways on the Plexicushion surface – which is specially designed to allow players to slide. It’s safer for the players and fun to watch.
Too often athletes are forced into a narrative in which their sport overtakes everything, to the detriment of their health and future happiness.
Why has professional sport become the lens through which so many young men in the Global South are redefining their future?
Some football bets are 50 times more harmful than others.
Preparation. Focus. Positivity. Think like an athlete to win a Christmas medal.
The alcohol industry introduced rules to self-regulate placement of alcohol ads in November 2017. We reviewed the first six months of regulation and it was unlikely to protect young people.
Whether it’s a toss of the coin or a flip of the bat, can any method to decide who plays first in cricket be unbiased?
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.
Primary prevention programs with a footballing focus aim to change behaviours and attitudes among men towards women.
Star basketball players are suffering the fallout from a race scare campaign by politicians from the Liberal party over crimes committed by a small number of young people who came to Australia from South Sudan
Research shows sport is commonly a bastion for male dominance and privilege.
It’s not only fans that dress up on Melbourne Cup Day. There is plenty of gear racehorses can wear, from blinkers to nose bands, ear plugs and even a tail chain. But do they do any good?
A first look at data on sport injuries in children in England, and it’s not a pretty picture.
Cricket Australia promised to throw open the windows. But it is still keeping secrets behind closed doors.
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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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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Principal Lecturer, Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Portsmouth
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Professor of International Sport Business, Head of Sport Business Insights Group, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy and Sports Studies, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Sport Psychology and Safe Sport, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, First Year College, Victoria University
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling
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Professor, Victoria University
