Vicious cycle: the 'troublemakers' tackling sexism in elite sport
Apr 08, 2017 05:39 am UTC| Sports
British Cycling has delivered some of the UKs most stunning sporting triumphs over the past decade. But success has brought scrutiny alongside parliamentary committee hearings about mysterious jiffy bags and reports of a...
$50M NFL Streaming Rights Go To Amazon, Thursday Night Games Go Live
Apr 05, 2017 03:44 am UTC| Technology Sports
The National Football League tested out an idea to join 21st-century entertainment last year when it allowed Twitter to stream Thursday games live on its platform. It was supposed to be an experiment and based on the fact...
Follicle challenge: the Ben Cousins saga and reforms to drug testing
Apr 02, 2017 00:25 am UTC| Sports Law
As a footballer, Ben Cousins was one of the best of his generation. Among various accolades, he won the Brownlow Medal in 2005 and was part of the West Coast premiership team of 2006. But today Cousins is about to serve a...
Kosovo's upcoming Iceland match is more than just football — it's a diplomatic score
Mar 23, 2017 03:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
(Corrects information on paragraph 4 and paragraph 5) Australian football star Besart Berisha recently flew to Kosovos capital, Pristina, to play for the country where he was born. For me, its a very exciting time and I...
Why the Six Nations rugby tournament should resist kicking Italy into touch
Mar 20, 2017 15:03 pm UTC| Sports
The Italian rugby union team suffered five heavy losses in the 2017 Six Nations tournament, cementing them to the bottom of the table and their 12th last place finish since joining the tournament in 2000. Dejected and...
Asia's Olympic moment has its roots in Cold War politics
Mar 10, 2017 03:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
China, host of the 2008 Summer and 2022 Winter Olympic Games, has turned into a major sports power, if its medal tally at the recent Rio Olympics is any indication. Japan, which will hold the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,...
It’s not what sport children play, but how they play it that matters
Mar 08, 2017 08:45 am UTC| Sports
Sport is massive and its everywhere: on TV, in videogames, and on the streets. As a consequence, myths about the inherent greatness of sport have grown. One such myth is the belief that sport itself is ideally suited to...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects