Andy Grainger

Magnus Carlsen shows how Saudi Arabia gobbles up global sports stars The outstanding chess player of his generation is the latest figure to be associated with a kingdom that uses entertainment to pacify the public

Interesting events going on for those is the sport diplo/soft power space: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

The electronic version of the journal is now available to @nassh1972.bsky.social members! #SportHistory #NASSH2025 #Skystorians

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FIFA 🤦

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

For those interested in supporting the cause: Save Sociology at Macquarie: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff As the IOC ushers in new leadership, Donald Trump’s second term is already wreaking havoc on LA 28 – and turning a global celebration into a national security crackdown

My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

The Long Rise of the Moroccan Women's Football Team | 15 | Critical Pe This chapter explores the long rise of the Moroccan women’s football team to the world stage, considering the political and cultural factors that serve to

Published in time for WAFCON, Kadija Bouyzourn, Nicole Matuska, Andrew Grainger and I wrote The Long Rise of the Moroccan Women’s Football Team
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Are tickets available yet? ;)

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The June double issue is now published!
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Read a welcome from new editor Dr. Doug Hartmann, a reflection on the history of the journal from Dr. Lawrence Wenner, and 8 new empirical articles.

New book alert. Shameless self promotion… but also a chance to publicly thank my co-editors and all our wonderful contributors! 🙌🙌🙌

A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing…

Without input from parents or students, the Education Department ordered several civil rights investigations on its own — targeting schools with trans athletes, gender-neutral bathrooms and initiatives it sees as discriminatory to white students.

if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.

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While Sky (rightly) gets a lot of stick for its monopoly tactics over broadcast rights, it gets some things right 👏 www.sky.co.nz/rangiata-sky...

Immigrants Have Always Made Baseball Better As the World Series nears, ballplayers should be speaking out in favor of fair treatment for immigrants.

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New video alert! Brian Wilson, Professor in Kinesiology at UBC, Director of UBC’s Centre for Sport & Sustainability, & member of the Mobilizing Sport & Sustainability Collective, explores links between sport, environmental issues, & sustainability. sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/explainer-vi...

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Time for USian academics to do what’s right and not just what is easy and/or convenient. Support the shifting of conferences and other academic endeavors away from here.

It’s going to be especially hard in the US part of the tournament since we’ve made child labor great again as well.

In lieu of their annual PCS Grad Student Conference, PCS@UMD will be hosting a “Response to the Moment." Friday, 25th of April 10am-4pm ET, in person at the UMD School of Public Health and live streamed via Zoom (details and QR code in the flyer).

Real leadership when required most from @nasssbsky.bsky.social. Other scholarly orgs should take note.

Ian Roberts came out in 1995. No other men's NRL or AFL player has since From hiding your sexuality from your teammates to coming out on the international playing field, gay rugby pioneer Andrew Purchas and hockey player Davis Atkin discuss being a gay man in sport.

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The NFL is removing 'End Racism' from its Super Bowl end zone Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

Melbourne to host first-ever NFL regular season game in Australia in 2026; Rams designated team The National Football League today announced a multiyear commitment to play regular season games in Melbourne, Australia beginning in 2026 as the league continues to take international games to new ma...

While the NRL targets Vegas and the US…😳 www.nfl.com/news/melbour...

Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

The quiet but powerful protest staged by the wāhine at Waitangi Māori leaders in the Far North turned their collective back in an emotional demonstration.

Here’s to the spirit and courage of these wāhine on this day. “The quiet but powerful protest staged by the wāhine at Waitangi” www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

What, according to its Human Rights Framework: “FIFA and its partners are working to make the FIFA World Cup 2026™ one of the most diverse and inclusive celebrations of all time.” 😉 (&LOL 🤣)

It’s Waitangi Day in AoNZ. I hope the support of the nga tupuna and the belief in the tamariki keep the treaty from harm. Kia kaha to all the resistance. ❤️🖤🤍

Pictorial interpretation of terminology:

Marshall Islands’ vanishing kit for a team under threat from climate crisis The isolated Pacific nation is trying to build its first football team amid a battle for survival against rising sea levels

For those studying or teaching on the impact of climate change on sport www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘A hate machine’: St Pauli become first major football club to leave X St Pauli have become the first major football club to leave X, expressing concern that the site may influence the outcome of the German election

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