With kids in sports, parents struggle with two images of reality. Either you see your child – or the children of others – as talented or as hopeless cases. Many parents easily see that a child is talented. What most people mean...[more]

Play the Game's website is undergoing system maintenance this week.[more]

While the Pakistani cricket team’s match fixing scandal dominates UK sports headlines, betting operators and player associations in Britain are making strides in a proactive approach to educating sportsmen and women on the...[more]

The quest for “more responsibility and less power” is what the President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) hopes will mark his presidency, he says in an interview with Around the Rings.[more]

FIFA President Sepp Blatter seems confident that his African legacy will live on in the form of an Olympic Games held in South Africa. In July 2010, encouraged by President Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s governing Olympic body SASCOC...[more]

The latest edition of the Football Top 20 report from consultants Sport + Markt claims that nearly 250 million people aged between 16 and 69 in Europe follow the sport, generating a football market worth up to €12 billion.[more]

Tony Blair's book "A Journey" has put the spotlight back on his controversial time as Prime Minister. In the memoir, Blair exposes himself and people he has met, and of course it is his relationship with Gordon Brown and his...[more]

A group of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are calling for greater attention on funding of grassroots sports, as the European Commission prepares to draft its first ever proposal of an EU sports programme in November.[more]

In less than two years time, London will host the 2012 Olympic Games, and, as hosts, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB) can enter a team without needing to qualify. Author and journalist Steve Menary...[more]

That Pakistan has always been a problem child in international cricket, vulnerable to corrupting influences, is something Manish Kohli (name changed) has known for years. More than a decade ago, he made a killing as a big-time...[more]