One in 14 Premier League footballers receives online abuse every day.
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This generation of players continues to experience sexism and racism.
Money can ruin things but it doesn’t have to following the success of England’s women at the Euros.
Physical education is too often sexist and old fashioned. Here’s what it could be like instead.
We can build on the tournament to raise the profile of women’s sport.
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.
Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.
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 can help prevent the involvement of youth in violent extremism.
Achieving financial independence requires special tactics.
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.
They may not be funded by gas and oil, but these two sides are big money players.
Contemporary fiction on screen increasingly tells the stories of abusive men in a realistic way. This documentary does not.
Record attendance of professional women’s matches show support is higher than at any time in history.
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?
Watching big events, like the Olympics, on television was a key route into fandom.
Often dismissed as ‘horseplay,’ sexual assaults perpetrated by boys athletes against their teammates persist in high school sports, a researcher observes.
It’s fair to say the Canadian men’s national soccer team’s victory on Sunday meant something, eh?
Ghanaian footballers chased migration to the US after the removal of Nkrumah as president.
It may be soft power, but it still packs a punch.
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Global Professor of Sport | Director of Eurasian Sport, EM Lyon
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester
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Principal Research Fellow in Sociology of Sport, University of Brighton
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Researcher of Sport Business, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Finance, Sheffield Hallam University
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Deputy Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Lecturer in Sport & Fitness, The Open University
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Head of Department; Finance, Accounting & Business Systems, Sheffield Hallam University
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Chair of Sport and Head of the Academy of Sport, University of Edinburgh
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Principal Lecturer in Journalism, University of Brighton
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, University of Portsmouth
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Director, Centre for Sports Business, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Bangor University
