Hockey culture’s tendency to prefer attributes like mental toughness over emotional vulnerability can damage athletes when they’re confronted with traumatic events. This needs to change.
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Led by a Black businessman named Bob Douglas, the New York Rens, who played their first game on Nov. 3, 1923, became one of the best basketball teams in the country.
With newfound fame and fortune, NBA rookies who come from poverty face a bevy of challenges that threaten to derail their success.
As the rivalry between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf ends not with a bang, but with a merger, it’s clear both sides are far more interested in financial gain than issues of morality.
The first WNBA game in Canada was more than just a game — it was about the future of women’s sports.
More women should feel they have a choice to continue playing after becoming a mother – which is why the right kind of support is important.
A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement than their counterparts in the other major US sports leagues.
A 1971 High Court ruling on rugby league contracts set an important Australian precedent on human rights. Fifty years on, we need to decide if players deserve the right to a presumption of innocence.
Incidents of sexual misconduct, and how they have been handled, highlight the lack of accountability in professional sports, and the problems that this situation creates.
A new study explores the how the celebrity and status of professional footballers in the “Big Five” European leagues can affect both performance and pay.
The establishment of a professional tennis players’ association that advocates on behalf of professional athletes brings to the foreground the conflict between athletes’ needs and corporate interests.
Sports is typically a reflection of society, not an exception to it. COVID-19 seems to have turned the model of professional sport inside out.
Many of us would probably like to watch some professional sports right now. But wouldn’t we rather Canada live up to its international legal responsibilities to respect the rights of asylum-seekers?
Professional women’s hockey is trying to emerge from a crisis by creating a players’ union to improve pay and working conditions.
Men are still expected to prioritise sport over their families.
Should sports journalists be able to hold athletes to account?
It probably sounds bad or uncomfortable to you. But stiffness is part of what gives elite athletes the spring in their muscles.
When the Canadian Women’s Hockey League announced it was folding, it was seen as a setback for women’s hockey. But history suggests the death of one hockey league leads to new opportunities.
Retiring from a career in elite sports can be stressful in a number of ways, something the former tennis world number one understands very well.
Media giants like ESPN may have thought that eSports was a fad but not anymore. Revenue from eSports video games are set to take over traditional sports leagues.
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Professor, Sport Management and Director, Centre for Sport Capacity, Brock University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor of Cultural Sport Psychology, University of Southern Denmark
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Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Brock University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Corporate Law & Academic Director of UNE Sydney campus, University of New England
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Senior Lecturer in Sport & Fitness, The Open University
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Professor of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Masculinities, Sexualities and Sport, University of Winchester
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Assistant Professor, RTA School of Media, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer, Psychology and Counselling, School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, School of Creative Industries, Faculty of Communication and Design, Toronto Metropolitan University
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