The Knowledge Bank

When people meet in the sports field it is based upon a common language, and gives an opportunity to develop your own skills in a challenging interaction with your opponent.[more]

A survey of sports journalism in Norway, Denmark and Sweden shows that Scandinavian newspapers' sport coverage is uncritical and one-sided. The survey was prepared for Play the Game's conference in 2002 and also shows that...[more]

Power Point of Barrie Houlihan's presentation "Dying to Win: The International Anti-doping Code"[more]

Writing the book "Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport" was a six year journey for journalist Laura Robinson. Here she recounts the story of how she exposed a rape culture in junior hockey and...[more]

In the study of functions and survival conditions for traditional sports and games in different European regions five factors play an important part.[more]

Two football fans are dead, two families lives devastated, but only a week later, football has already moved on.[more]

Sport has a deep psychological dimension of identity building. When people are playing, they form social patterns expressing who "we" are.[more]

In 1995 the European Court of Justice ruled in the Bosman case that the player transfer system and restrictions on the maximum number of foreign players on teams were illegal violations of the Treaty of Rome.[more]

The coexistence of sport and politics dates from the 9th century BC, when the "Olympic Truce" was established.[more]

Sport is fascinating - but not innocent. As a mirror of societal oppositions, sport is full of tensions.[more]

One of English footballs greatest ironies is the extent to which the fortunes of the top clubs, and their chairmen, have been founded on the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. The Taylor Report which followed recommended, that public...[more]

The Van Nistelrooy affair, as it can now be called, has allowed choice glimpses into Manchester United plc's rancorous internal politics.[more]

Relationships between sport and money are longstanding and necessary: this cannot be concealed in the light of a Coubertanian ideal that is often poorly understood.[more]

The IOC wants to use the Olympic games in Sydney to rehabilitate Olympic doping control. A timely decision and professor John Hoberman argues that the Sydney Games are one of our last opportunities to prevent the further...[more]

The Football Association's new chief executive Adam Crozier rocked the old order shortly after taking over in January, by daring to appear in public with neither a tie nor even a blazer, which have been standard FA issue for...[more]