Six months before the FIFA world cup, a group of German sports journalists has kicked off a new independent network called sportsnetzwerk.

An ordinary news story speculating about the potential purchase of a new player for a local football club, Mjällby AIF, led to death threats against a Swedish radio reporter. The first threat came an hour after the broadcast in December 2005 where an anonymous man informed the reporter that his life would be over if the story meant that the deal fell through.

Knowledge bank: This paper presents the first results of a new program at Shantou University in Guangdong Province, China to train China’s next generation of sports journalists.

Knowledge bank: Words of welcome by Jens Sejer Andersen, Director, Play the Game, at Play the Game 2005: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Knowledge bank: Danish Institute for Sports Studies presents their models for sports television viewing and examins the viewers' motivation factors for chosing television content regarding sports shows and programs.

Knowledge bank: Knut Helland speaks at Play the Game 2005 about publicist ideals, the journalistic institution and its social role and legitimacy in the context of a globalised and commercialised world of sport.

Mary Nicole Nazzaro, lecturer and former sports journalist, gave an attention-grabbing address to Play the Game on her experiences in China. Taking time out from her job lecturing on sports journalism at Shantou University, Ms Nazzaro spoke of the conditions that currently exist for sports journalists in the world’s most populous nation, and also looked to the future.

The U.S. Balco affair consisted of a systematic and calculated method to circomvent sports drug testing rules by using sophisticated and oftentimes undetecable performance enhancing substances.