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A Thought Against the World
The critic who would try to think of a world outside the World Cup and The Olympics is faced with a unique problem. FIFA and the IOC have a stranglehold on the global sport spectacle, on the...
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raising a fist at the fix
“Since the time of Jesse Owens it has been presumed that any poor but rugged youngster who was able to jump racial fences into a college haven was happy all day long.” So wrote Harry Edwards in The...
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On the Sexism of Football Scholars and Sports Critics
“People want excellence in sports, and the quality of women’s soccer is not there.” “Nobody wants to watch women’s sports.” “The top women can’t take on the top men.” These three things were said by...
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No Lesson Plan: notes on a shooting
As something people experience and express, sexism is intensely variable. For some, systems of hate and fear are never more than a background hum. For others, those systems manifest themselves as...
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A People’s Cup
Each broadcast of FIFA’s World Cup opened with plastic samba and cartoon favelas—the actual streets of Brazil were off-limits as far as FIFA’s marketing department was concerned. They are not up to...
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Passions United, a review
A FIFA boardroom, in which passions are united. United Passions is fascinating. Not as a movie, of course. FIFA’s 30 million-dollar self-portrait is, instead, fascinating evidence. FIFA leaves its...
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Sex Talk
Public discourse has not caught up with the lived contradictions that lie at the root of sexual harassment and the culture of harassment. The media can’t get enough of these stories. And yet, no amount...
View ArticleNext for Spain: The Gauntlet of Complaint
[Revised after the news broke re RFEF demanding Rubiales’s resignation] When the head of their sport’s federation harasses them, what can national team players do? This is the question hanging over...
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