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In recent years, athlete activism has gained renewed attention as athletes have used their platforms to address issues such as police brutality, racial inequality, and LGBTQ rights. The intersection of sports and social justice has been a contentious topic, with some praising athletes for using their influence and privilege to bring attention ...
A video purporting to show Hamas threatening to attack the Olympics was shared on social media in the days before the opening ceremony. Hamas denied that they were behind the video using their social channels, and Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center determined the video to be Russian disinformation. The video appeared to come from the same ...
Former Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland on athletes dealing with mental health issues: “I think athletes are notoriously bad patients."
Richard McLaren published two reports in 2016 claiming that from "at least late 2011 to 2015" more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports, including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports, benefited from a doping cover-up. [190] As of 25 December 2015, 43 Russian athletes who competed in Sochi have been disqualified, with 13 medals ...
As global issues keep Congress busy and the presidential election cycle nears, the hill remains steep for any real movement. Two long-time college athletics leaders, Swarbrick and Smith, seem to ...
The NBA, along with the NFL, MLB, NHL and the U.S. Justice Department brought litigations against the State of New Jersey to stop the legalization of sports betting in 2012. [114] They argued that New Jersey's plan was in direct violation of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). [114]
Sociology of sport, alternately referred to as sports sociology, is a sub-discipline of sociology which focuses on sports as social phenomena. It is an area of study concerned with the relationship between sociology and sports , and also various socio-cultural structures, patterns, and organizations or groups involved with sport.
"Domestic abuse among professional athletes is not a new problem, but it became a nationally recognized issue when Baltimore Ravens football player Ray Rice assaulted his then-fiancee, now wife, [in 2014] and was only suspended from two NFL games." [1] The incident took place in an elevator in a hotel, in which Rice knocked out his fiancée.