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The Knowledge Bank is a collection of articles from a wide variety of professional and academic sources.
We welcome new contributions to the collection. Please contact us at info@playthegame.org with your suggestions and articles.
20 November 2009 |
"Now that its fall and the blind will be leading the blind until mid-June, there is a new assortment of cheerleading hockey books out there. Playing With Fire is the antithesis," Laura Robinson writes in her review of hockey... |
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29 July 2009 |
Manipulation of handball games – what is the problem and what needs to be done? |
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21 April 2009 |
Households were used to be the major source of sport finance in Europe, and then came local authorities, enterprises and the (state) government. Such was the last state of knowledge about the shape of a European model of sport... |
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01 December 2008 |
Greedy agents, bungling with contracts, allegations of kidnapping and threats of life: all ingredients in a drama from real life, in the middle of which stands the now 21 year old Nigerian football player John Obi Mikel. He is... |
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05 November 2008 |
In 2004 North Americans a bizarre story began to unfold when police arrested NHL player Mike Danton after a play-off game on conspiracy to murder charges.
What we heard became nearly theatre of the absurd in a tale that... |
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01 September 2008 |
Many regulars at Play the Game conferences have been left amazed and outraged in equal measure by the research carried out by Canadian investigative journalist and academic Declan Hill, who has devoted years to researching the... |
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27 August 2008 |
Review by Steve Menary of Hans Bonde's latest book, ‘Football With The Foe – Danish sport under the swastika’, which examines wartime sport during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
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30 July 2008 |
The Court of Appeal recently handed down their decision in the case of Andrew Gravel who sued Richard Carroll and Redruth RFC ("the Club") for a punch inflicted upon him during a first team game. The crux of the issue was in what... |
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09 July 2008 |
As one of the consequences of the Cold War from the end of World War II and up to 1989, the competition on the battlefield of sport became fiercer and fiercer, and at some point rumours started circulating in the west about... |
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19 September 2007 |
This is an edited extract of "Outcasts: The Lands That FIFA Forgot", which is published by Know The Score books on September 27. ISBN-10: 1905449313. ISBN-13: 978-1905449316. More details at
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09 August 2007 |
Year in, year out, governments at all levels and corporate bodies spend billions of naira on Sports Development. But there is little, or nothing to show for their huge investment. Olukayode Thomas reports that, unless President... |
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09 August 2007 |
After the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, a wide-ranging report on the UK’s football stadia was carried out by Lord Justice Taylor. One of the key recommendations of the report was to literally change the face of the UK’s... |
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09 August 2007 |
When in 2005 the draft of a European Constitution failed, sport was left without any article of its own and, thus, without a legal framework on the EU level. That is why the European Commission started a process to... |
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26 June 2007 |
Since China was awarded the Olympic Games in 2008, human rights organisations and politicians have applied pressure on the International Olympic Committee to use the Games as a lever to improve China’s human rights record. But... |
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26 June 2007 |
Organisers of the Olympic Games in Beijing have promised that foreign journalists can travel freely around China, interview who they want and enjoy uncenscored access to the Internet during the Games. New freer regulations on... |
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