culture

Last Sunday Ali Karimi - aka Asia's Maradona – was fired from the Tehran team Steel Azin FC for not fasting during Ramadan. Karimi is no ‘nobody’ in Iran. He is the second most merited on the national team, third on the top...[more]

The Examination of Threats to the Integrity of Sports was commissioned by the EU Sports Platform and has been launched in European Parliament. The report, elaborated by Danish research institute Oxford Research, outlines the key...[more]

When the torch passes through Canada's aboriginal communities it won't shed any light on the poverty that keeps their children from the Olympic dream[more]

Mega-events as drivers of social change: Experts on China went head-to-head in trying to assess the legacy and impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[more]

Football can, it seems, revive national rivalries and conjure the ghosts of past wars. But football, can also, in a different way than long speeches or international resolutions, help induce progress toward peaceful solutions for...[more]

UN Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, Adolf Ogi, speaks at Play the Game's conference about UN and the year 2005, which is the International Year of Sport and Physical Education.[more]

WADA Vice President and Danish Minister of Culture, Brian Mikkelsen, speaks at  Play the Game 2005 "Governance in Sport: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"[more]

Words of welcome by Jens Sejer Andersen, Director, Play the Game, at Play the Game 2005: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly[more]

Young people from indigenous cultures - societies which did not until recently have a history and culture of suicide - set alarming records of suicide. These young people could be helped through sport. Colin Tatz provides us with...[more]

Laura Robinson is the author of the book " Crossing the Line - Violence and sexual assaults in Canada's national sport". Her vital research on sexual abuse in Canadian junior hockey was met with a deep and intellectual...[more]