Via CNN, a look at how the World Cup is bringing rare unity to Haiti:
When gangs set fire to the FIFA Goal Center in Haiti’s capital this year, it wasn’t just a key sports ground that went up in flames. It was the [...]
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on Barcelona FC, the oil business, and sportswashing allegations in the Amazon:
The River Caqueta snakes nearly 1,800 miles into the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Here, in the [...]
Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on how - under Pyongyang’s new “two states” policy - sports diplomacy has been repackaged as inter-state, not inter-Korean, exchanges:
Last week, North Korea sent a sports [...]
Courtesy of the Washington Post, a look at Frank Hayden, who saw sports as a gateway to opportunity for children with special needs:
On a sweltering July day in 1968, 1,000 young athletes gathered at Soldier Field [...]
Via Washington Post, a report on racing driver Katherine Legge’s E.L.F. Cosmetics-powered attempt to pull off what’s known as the Memorial Day Double, a still-rare instance of a beauty brand sponsoring an athlete in a sport [...]
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how, while diplomatic relations between the two Koreas are near a historic low, a rare trip by athletes from the North triggered intense emotions in some older South [...]