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As more younger, single men ask for one following the Supreme Court abortion decision, a urologist explains what to expect with a vasectomy.
Hockey Canada has fallen short of its mission to ‘Lead, Develop and Promote Positive Hockey Experiences’ in its handling of sexual violence perpetrated by and against Hockey Canada players.
Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.
Breaking the bronze ceiling - an expert explains why there are so few statues of sportswomen in the UK.
Yes, there is a risk of injuring yourself while playing netball but the overall risk of serious injury is relatively small – and far outweighed by the benefit of being active and part of a team.
Sports can help prevent the involvement of youth in violent extremism.
Technology is often blamed for “locking down” major bike races and making them predictable. Yet data analysis shows that Tours in the “classic era” weren’t always thrill rides.
You can love a country and still hold it to account. I love Canada. But I won’t stand for the anthem at a sporting event or elsewhere, especially not when my kids are watching.
Girls’ rugby is a sport with higher than expected concussion rates. As the sport grows in popularity, preventing concussions is more effective than treating them.
The final in Casablanca puts Caf at a crossroads about host nations and venues for matches.
Sport has long been an unsafe place for LGBTQ+ players, but Jake Daniels’s coming out could change things for men’s football.
Voters need to hold political candidates and their parties to account on sport and recreation issues and advocate for support from provincial and territorial governments.
Athletes from multiple NSO’s in Canada are rising up in hurt and anger to denounce toxic cultures and linking arms to demand a respectful, healthy and inclusive sport system for all.
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?
By surveying over 100 people in academic medicine, a researcher found that women are consistently excluded from important networking activities like watching sports, drinking at bars and playing golf.
Often dismissed as ‘horseplay,’ sexual assaults perpetrated by boys athletes against their teammates persist in high school sports, a researcher observes.
Moving towards an athlete-centred approach to sport is one step in the right direction
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.
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Chair of Sport and Head of the Academy of Sport, University of Edinburgh
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Researcher of Sport Business, University of Manchester
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Global Professor of Sport | Director of Eurasian Sport, EM Lyon
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Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
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Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, Western University
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Deputy Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Professor of Economics, Smith College
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Senior Lecturer in Markets, Public Policy and Law, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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James Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Past Executive Director, International Association for Communication and Sport, Emeritus Professor of Communication, Saint Xavier University
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Professor of Psychology, California State University, Northridge
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Professor and Associate Director, Institute for Community Prosperity, Mount Royal University
