Via IRIS, commentary on Russia's use of sport to 'seduce and shock' the world:
For more than a decade, global sport has been blighted by a relentless flow of doping cases involving Russian athletes, which have resulted in the [...]
March
22,
2022
Via YouTube, a TED Talk by point guard Renee Montgomery, winnner of a college national championship at UConn and a pair of WNBA titles with the Minnesota Lynx, who - when racist incidents plagued the country in 2020 - took a step [...]
March
22,
2022
Courtesy of The New Yorker, an article on the decision facing the Tennis Tour regarding Russian players:
A Ukrainian flag fluttered day and night in the soft desert breeze above Stadium 1, the main show court at the BNP [...]
Via The Guardian, commentary on what some see is Saudi Arabia efforts to expand its sportswashing ambitions to the world of gaming:
By zeroing in on the burgeoning eSports market, the kingdom has added a new layer to its soft [...]
Via The Nation, an article on how one of the greatest squash players on earth wants us to reckon with the hypocrisy of supporting Ukraine while ignoring other injustices:
Ali Farag is currently the number-two-ranked squash [...]
March
19,
2022
Via Yale Daily News, commentary on the nexus between athletics and activism:
I was thoroughly annoyed. Why my coach had asked me to watch “13th” –– a documentary about racism in the American carceral system –– when [...]