Via The Washington Post, a look at how Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are upending the sports world — and what they want from their newfound power: When the NBA needed a new country to continue its global [...]

Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on Afghanistan’s cricket team which has won big games and many fans in an international competition, in a stark contrast to the pariah status of its government: The national flag [...]

Via BBC, a report on the scale of Saudi Arabia's investment in sport: New research claims to show the extent and scale of Saudi Arabian state investment and involvement in sport for the first time. The report published by [...]

Courtesy of The Guardian, an article on an urgent and interesting convergence between sport and climate action: Sport England, which invests more than £300m of public money every year, intends to ask sports to do far more to [...]