English referee Wayne Barnes is taking French lessons.
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English-speaking rugby referees are aiming to improve their foreign language skills – but how will this affect the game?
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Methods used to get athletes to their peak would be unacceptable outside of the stadium, but success papers over a lot of cracks.
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Does sport really improve young people’s development?
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This rough and tumble sport has smashed through gender stereotypes – can it now be a force for social change?
Children need to develop a few channels in life where they can get to know themselves and develop their self-esteem.
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As retirement looms for elite sportspeople, there is a need to prepare for the transition to post-sport life. But there are also important things to consider for transition long before this.
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Ten months after guiding outsiders Leicester to the Premier League title – arguably the greatest shock in the history of the English game – the club’s manager has been unceremoniously sacked.
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Multiple ownerships, mega-transfers and a foot in the door at FIFA. Beijing’s bid for football power is a challenge to world soccer.
Before the AFL, there was the much better, much cooler, much more local SANFL.
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Footy isn’t just the dominant spectator sport and topic of conversation in South Australia. It’s a salve.
Latrobe Ladies Football Club in 1921, one of Australia’s first women’s football clubs.
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Women’s soccer had just found its feet in the roaring ‘20s when state ruling bodies began to force female players from the field.
Nearly 300,000 people tuned into two live streams on Facebook of the Anthony Mundine-Danny Green fight.
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Foxtel’s high-priced oligopolistic control over Australian pay TV has again clashed with the demands of sport fans and the increasingly sophisticated capture and relay technologies available to them.
Tennis player Andy Murray employs former great Ivan Lendl as his coach.
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Just because you were good at sport does not mean you can coach without furthering your qualifications and experiences.
England’s Courtney Lawes takes a blow against Italy.
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As the RBS Six Nations rugby tournament begins, the risk of injury is back in the limelight.
The Carlton ladies football team, 1933.
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There has so far been scant understanding of – or credit given to – the historical background to the creation of the AFL women’s league.
Is Nick Kyrgios too difficult – and different – to become an Australian hero?
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Examining our sporting heroes reveals much about ideas of national identity and who is accepted.
Some professional players find it difficult to change their routine to adjust to other careers when they retire.
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Research shows there are some common struggles among those who retire from being professional athletes but players can be successful in careers after sport.
Australian sport may only account for 1.6% of total household spend, but its macro impact on the economy is strong.
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Australian sport will never have the commercial clout to bring the economy out of recession or solve a regional unemployment problem. But it is more than a fringe player in the economic game.
Not so bad…
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Healing is hungry work – so watch what you eat.
Establishing unique voices from various female perspectives will help create a united front on issues of specific female concern.
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Sport remains the most evocative public demonstration of difference between the sexes, so its importance to feminist politics cannot be neglected.
Australia’s junior community sport system has been heavily professionalised and commercialised.
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The relationship between commercialised sport and junior sport has largely been left to the periphery of Australian sporting analyses.
Survey data show men are more likely to participate in sport for fun or enjoyment than women.
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There is much work to do if Australia is to eradicate various barriers to participation in sport.