The Knowledge Bank

The French journal Politique Africaine, has dedicated their latest issue to the World Cup in South Africa, featuring articles looking into political issues before, during and after the world’s largest football event has hit...[more]

This paper, by Dr. Gary Baines, looks into the way in which the hosting of 2010 World Cup matches has effected South African city Port Elizabeth. It also examines the potential legacy for the city, a legacy viewed as “likely to...[more]

This international study, financed by the World Anti‐Doping Agency, was designed to examine and comprehend the impact of forms of socialization and organization of cycling on the representation and practices of doping.[more]

Extensive research into trafficking of young African players reveal that major European clubs systematically use loopholes in the regulation to recruit youth players from the African continent, leaving up to 20,000 former...[more]

This edition of the Journal titled ‘Sport and Development’, composed in cooperation with ‘Network for Sport and Development’ (NSD), focuses on exercise and sports as a potential tool for development. It examines the concept of...[more]

"Some of the members of the World Domination League – aka FIFA’s ruling Executive Committee - are mad, some are bad, but one member is both – Meet Trinidad’s FIFA vice-president Jack Warner."[more]

"Now that it's 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...[more]

Manipulation of handball games – what is the problem and what needs to be done?[more]

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...[more]

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...[more]

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...[more]

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...[more]

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.  [more]

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.[more]

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...[more]