• 08.02.2011 /
    Under the control of FIFA ex-co member Jack Warner, Trinidad and Tobagonian football players are owed money dating back to July 2010 while 12 technical staff members have not seen a proper pay check since September 2009. Journalist Lasana Liburd gives a personal report and lets us peek into Warner’s world.
  • 03.02.2011 /
    For the seventh time Play the Game invites you to engage in open, fact-based and constructive debates on a number of themes that are essential to the future of sport. The abstract submission for Play the Game 2011 is now open.

  • 02.02.2011 /
    The Olympic stadium in London's future after 2012 is being loudly debated in England. The big question is whether it should be torn down or remain standing after the Games.
  • 28.01.2011 /
    The London Olympics will inevitably be tainted by illegal betting, says IOC President Jacques Rogge and suggests the establishment of a global anti-corruption unit similar to the World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA within the next few years.
  • 26.01.2011 /
    Mohammad Bin Hammam, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President has been asked by officials to oppose current FIFA President Sepp Blatter at the FIFA Presidential elections in June this year, media reports say.
  • 26.01.2011 /
    The Beijing Olympics was a unique event in many senses, and China has been one of time’s most debated Olympic hosts. New article examines the great global impact of the Beijing Olympiad.
  • 24.01.2011 /
    It is widely recognised and broadly agreed that the clearest example of a mega-event, sporting or otherwise, is provided by the modern Olympic Games, with another sporting spectacle, the FIFA World Cup coming in second. There is nothing like the same consensus over what else, if anything, qualifies as a mega-event, how to identify mega-events, or how to basically characterise, distinguish and define ‘mega-event’.
  • 21.01.2011 /
    In the wake of the corruption allegations that clouded the FIFA World Cup elections in December last year, Swiss politicians now want to put pressure on the sports federations currently enjoying tax exemptions and other fiscal advantages residing in Switzerland.

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