Fifty years ago the council was created to fight for marginalised communities to participate fairly in sports. Their dream remains unfulfilled.
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Just five days before the first pitch of the 1947 World Series, a deal was struck to air the Series on television.
Only eight batsmen have achieved the feat, will another join their ranks this May?
From the emergence of Premier League to Cricket’s newer formats, the history of professional sport is full of breakups.
By removing Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from the plaques awarded to each league’s MVP, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America acknowledged Landis’ role in upholding segregation.
Before a helicopter crash brought about their tragic deaths, Kobe Bryant’s daughter Gianna aspired to carry on his legacy as a pro basketball champion.
The pool and the beach have become acceptable spaces to bare all, but how did we get here?
The more they fight, the more popular they become – and the more pushback they receive.
FIFA has never been free of political interference and controversies since its inception in 1904.
Preparations for next month’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast are pushing homeless people out of town, and out of the state. Sadly, that’s not unusual for events of this sort.
Future Olympics will be required to report on their legacies for up to five years after the event under the IOC’s new framework.
While Harley Windsor’s selection deserves celebration, it’s surprising that it has taken until now for an Indigenous Australian to compete at a Winter Olympics.
The long winter Olympic journey from Chamonix in 1924 to PyeongChang in 2018.
History shows Olympic Games have only very limited ability to promote peace between warring nations.
Sport participation in South Africa remains rooted in the dilemmas of colonial society. It necessitates an ongoing need for discourse, debate and dialogue on decolonisation in sport history.
At the height of the Vietnam War, the Holt government agreed it would be a good idea if the national football team took part in a tournament in Vietnam to boost morale.
There is an old adage that sport should be separate from politics. The same-sex marriage debate in Australia has revived that view, as many sport bodies have publicly advocated a position on the matter…
A Victorian athlete’s use of ‘performance-enhancing’ coca was met with interested approval rather than anger of the kind directed at Justin Gatlin.
It’s worth defending the principle that the national governing body, not the clubs and not the states, should run football in Australia.
Times change, but the pillar upon which society places its sporting heroes remains the same.
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
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Reader in German and Cultural Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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James Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Saint Xavier University
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Associate Professor, Health and Physical Education/Sport Development, Western Sydney University
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Resident Physician in Psychiatry, Yale University
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Fashion historian, Edith Cowan University
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Professor, Journalism, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University
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Faculty Fellow, Colby College
