An open letter to Canada’s Prime Minister calls for former head of the 2010 Vancouver Games to step down from his official sports post pending hearings into allegations of abuse.

One month ago, Play the Game hosted its most extensive conference to date, Play the Game 2015 in Aarhus, Denmark. Now, much of the conference content is available either as video or audio recordings.

Play the Game is known as “home for the homeless questions in sport”. Many of these questions are posed by journalists. The conference asked whether the drift from traditional to Internet-based platforms would make investigative journalism less healthy.

Baku 2015, the first-ever European Games, represented a deliberate attempt to re-invent Azerbaijan’s public image. But did the plan backfire?

The second half of the opening session of Play the Game 2015 focused on FIFA reform and the ongoing criminal enquiry into corruption at the organisation.

Canadian Supreme Court rules against freelance journalist Laura Robinson, who loses defamation suit against former VANOC CEO John Furlong after three years of legal battle.

The Azeri journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who has been reporting about alleged corruption in the Azeri elite, has been sentenced to seven years and six months in prison.

The third edition of the online e-magazine Sport Executive has just been released. This edition features stories about sport’s predilection for dictatorships, about women in sports and about football tax havens.