January 2025 - More Than A Game

Afghanistan Women’s Cricket Team Offers Hope For Future

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January 29, 2025

Via The Guardian, a report on Afghanistan's women's cricket team: Two groups of women are playing cricket matches in Melbourne on Thursday – with two very different dreams on the line. At the Melbourne Cricket [...]

How Female Athletes Are Shaping the Future of Business

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January 29, 2025

Via Business of Finance, an op-ed by five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova that looks back on how brand partnerships shaped her career — and how the stakes have shifted for female athletes today: In the [...]

Venezuela and La Vinotinto: How Sport and Politics Intertwine

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January 27, 2025

Via The Athletic, a look back at how football and politics interwined in Venezuela in 2024: As Venezuela gleefully navigated their way towards the 2024 Copa America quarterfinals in the United States, playing attacking and [...]

What’s Really Behind the House Bill to Ban Transgender Athletes from School Sports?

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January 20, 2025

Via The New Yorker, an article on what is really behind the House Bill to ban transgender athletes from school sports: What did people care about in the lead-up to the 2024 Presidential election? Last fall, [...]

Afghanistan: Sports & Politics / Solidarity & Accountability

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January 20, 2025

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies recently held a webinar addressing the controversial role of Afghanistan’s cricket team, a group whose ties and good relations with the Taliban regime cannot be overlooked. As [...]

Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman Becomes 1st Black and 1st Asian American Coach To Reach College Football Finals

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January 20, 2025

Via NBC News, a report on Marcus Freeman, the first Black and first Asian American coach to reach NCAA football finals: Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman has scored a historical first. Freeman, whose [...]

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