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Somali sports journalists jailed and threatened with death

25 April 2008

Sports journalists Muse Mohamed Osman and Shafici Mohyaddin Abokar, president and first vice president of the Somali Sports Press Association (SSPA) respectively, were detained by Mogadishu police officers last week and...[more]




Play the Game invites you to seminar on the Olympics in China

24 April 2008

Already, the forthcoming Olympic Games have become a media event without parallel, though probably not in the way the organisers had envisaged. Across the world, a discussion is now rolling on the relationship between sport and...[more]




Photographer Niels Nyholm in memoriam

10 April 2008

On Monday 7 April, Play the Game lost a close friend and collaborator, while sport for all lost one of its most important eyewitnesses. After a long struggle with cancer, Danish press photographer Niels Nyholm died at the age of...[more]




ISL embezzlement case closes – verdict expected 2 July 2008

08 April 2008

Bribery is part and parcel of winning media rights for sports events allege defendants in the criminal trial of six former employees of the ISL/ISMM media group, FIFA's former media partners.[more]




Betting industry leader calls for sport world anti-corruption agency

08 April 2008

Mark Davies, managing director of global betting giant Betfair, has called for a world anti-corruption agency for sport.[more]




New UN special adviser on sport prioritises China-Tibet unrest

03 April 2008

German Willi Lemke has been appointed as the new United Nations special adviser on sport. Lemke’s first act as adviser will be to visit Tibet, where violent confrontation between proponents and opponents of Tibetan autonomy has...[more]




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