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Nadal Adds More Star Power To Saudi Sports Boom

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December 27, 2024

Via Semafor, a report on growing Saudi sports interest: Saudi Arabia may soon welcome another global icon to its booming sports industry. Rafael Nadal — former world No. 1 and 22-time Grand Slam tennis champion — [...]

Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Win: A Loss For Sport and World?

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December 13, 2024

Via the New Republic, strong commentary on how recent progress on civil rights and social justice in the soccer world is being rolled back, perhaps most notably with FIFA's award to Saudi Arabia to host the World [...]

Saudi Wealth Fund’s Expansion Into North American Soccer Raises Questions

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November 23, 2024

Via The Guardian, a look at a recent sponsorship deal between Conacaf and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund: A leading human rights organization has described a sponsorship deal between Concacaf and Saudi [...]

Fossil Fuel Companies Sponsor $5.6bn In Global ‘Sportswashing’ Deals

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September 18, 2024

Oil and gas giants have spent $5.6 billion on sports sponsorship through some 205 accords, said a study by research group New Weather Institute released on Wednesday that describes the outlays as [...]

What Qinwen Zheng Could Mean for Tennis, and for China

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September 1, 2024

Via The New Yorker, a report on the growth of tennis in China and the complex role of the nation in the global sport: There are approximately twenty-three million tennis players in China and exactly one Olympic [...]

The NBA, Rwanda, and Sportswashing

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August 27, 2024

Via ESPN, a report that U.S. senators have asked the partnership between the NBA and Rwandan President Paul Kagame: Two U.S. senators sent a letter Tuesday to NBA commissioner Adam Silver accusing the league of "putting [...]

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