The University of Colorado - Boulder has set up a new Sports Governance Center aiming to facilitate communication of issues in sports multi-disciplinary and problem-oriented while creating closer connections between academics and athletics.

The revised International Charter for Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport has been adopted by member states during UNESCO’s General Conference. "Use it - or lose it," says Play the Game head.

Assertions by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, a candidate for the presidency of world soccer body FIFA, that he was not involved in the arrest and abuse of sports executives and athletes in his native Bahrain in 2011 raise more questions than answers.

Too many sports federations have proven unable to take action on the avelanche of revelations of governance malpractice that is currently hitting sport. Put them under administration, says Andreas Selliaas in this comment.

Analysis: The world’s leading cricket league, the cash-rich Indian Premier League, is faced with new challenges as its title sponsor, PepsiCo, has expressed its intent of pulling out of the scandal-ridden tournament. It will take more than a monumental effort to keep the tournament alive and kicking.

More athletes in the Olympics, more women in sport bodies and more media attention were among the different approaches on how to create more gender equality and less corruption in sport discussed in a Play the Game 2015 session.

The woeful state of governance across four of the six FIFA confederations was exposed in a fascinating evening session discussing also what the role of the confederations should take in world football.

Sport’s inability to work for the good of society was the key theme in a session entitled ‘Playing with credibility: The corruption of international sports’ in which more speakers agreed that sport is in need of revolutionary change.