The board of Play the Game has approved the new German Sportnetzwerk as an official partner of Play the Game.

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

Play the Game can now publish the 22 pages long attack by Jean-Pierre Seppey on his former employers at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). The contents of Seppey's letter are fiercely contested by the FIVB who calls the information totally false in a legal sense and the facts totally distorted.

Play the Game 2005 was a success. At least that is the almost unanimous verdict from the 137 respondents who took part in the net-based evaluation survey which was sent to all conference participants shortly after the conference.

Knowledge bank: Michel Zen-Ruffinen, ousted Secretary General of FIFA, held the closing speech at Play the Game 2005 on road maps for better governance in sport. The sports lawyer gave examples of corruption in sport and some counter measures. However, the real problems are located in sports administration and Zen-Ruffinen called for the public to act as prosecutors on behalf of sport.

Knowledge bank: FIFA has more member nations than the UN. Steven Menary examins the reasons for this phenomena in his conference presentation at Play the Game 2005.

Knowledge bank: On the opening day of Play the Game 2005, Kelli White, former World Champion in sprint, took the stand to explain why she had decided to use drugs to enhance her performance.

Knowledge bank: A critical evaluation of WADA’s prohibited list was given at the Play the Game 2005 conference by Thomads Søbirk Petersen.