Play the Game publishes free e-mail newsletters on a regular basis with news about Play the Game and issues of sport, media and society.
Below you find headings and links to newsletters published in 2006.
Newsletter 22 December 2006
1) New boxing president sets up reform committee to clear up corruption
2) FIFA reprimands own vice president for illegal ticket sales
3) China relaxes rules on foreign reporters before the Olympics
4) Gibraltar fears that its UEFA application will not succeed afterall
5) President may stand again despite huge mess in Argentine football
6) China raises climbing fees to make room on Everest for Olympic torch
7) States and news organisations support Balco reporters in court
8) Business organisations want amnesty for suspended IOC member
9) Iceland will host Play the Game 2007
Newsletter 27 November 2006
1) High ambitions for new international volleyball federation
2) New FIABVB president will be watched closely
3) FIABVB’s credibility challenge from within
4) Danish professional cyclist tells all about his doping use in the 1990’s
5) FIFA punishes Iran’s government for interfering in football6) Kenya’s sport minister acted in excess of his power, says court
7) Former UN weapons inspector to watch over skiing ethics
8) Islamic leaders in Somalia tighten control over athletes
9) The UN adopts new action plan for sport and development
10) Football fans beat up two journalists in Argentina
Newsletter 20 November 2006
1) Manipulating Acosta may gain on world volley breakaways
2) FIVB congress spent hours attacking former secretary general
3) Athletes barred after Algeria dissolves athletics federation
4) Islamic rulers in Somalia label sport a satanic act
5) Kenya Premier League continues to fight for corruption-free football
6) Council of Europe allows sports federations to join policymaking
7) Swedish football agent charged with tax fraud for millions
Newsletter 8 November 2006
1) Munro still in Kenya as football unites against minister
2) FIFA softens towards EU, IOC sends mixed signals
3) Play the Game opens theme page on match fixing
4) Disabled athletes also targets for kidnappers in Iraq
5) Experienced Norwegian sports official joins Play the Game
6) French sports minister nominated as WADA president
7) Player paid the price for football money interests
Breaking news 3 November 2006
1) Kenyan government deports sports developer Bob Munro
2) Comment from Play the Game: Deportation shows disregard for Kenyan people
3) Sign Play the Game's petition to support Bob Munro
Newsletter 13 October 2006
1) IOC and FIFA in row with UEFA over EU intervention in sport
2) Play the Game suggests global coalition for sports governance
3) French IOC president convicted of corruption
4) UEFA makes Gibraltar wait for membership
5) Trinidad & Tobago’s national team resigns in row over World Cup bonus
6) WADA and Interpol join forces to combat doping
7) Showdown with corruption in Cambodia’s Olympic Committee
8) New volleyball federation announces dates for founding congress
9) Course on international sport mainly for Nordic journalists
10) New on Play the Game take part: Exclusion of third world children from sport events and more
Newsletter 29 September 2006
1) Swiss magistrates accuses FIFA official of taking bribes
2) Calls on FIFA to lift its intolerable ban on Jennings
3) Eccentric chess president wants to be president of IOC
4) Judge rules Balco reporters must talk or go to jail
5) Jack Warner mounts defence in ticket scandal
6) Greenpeace tries to stop Olympic constructions in Sochi
7) International cricket will throw out racist spectators
8) New on Play the Game take part: Laura Robinson update on sexual abuse in Canadian hockey
Newsletter 20 September 2006
1) FIVB critics will found new federation in Copenhagen
2) Take part in debates about sport on Play the Game take part
3) Keep in touch with Play the Game via RSS
Newsletter 12 September 2006
FIFA vice president breached FIFA codes and sold 4,500 tickets
Newsletter 8 September 2006
1) FIFA does not feel obliged to work with difficult journalists
2) Chairman of Play the Game resigns
3) Blood profiles and Danish anti-doping expert to clean up cycling
4) Gibraltar to become member of UEFA despite Spanish resistance
5) Romanian president wants Securitate files on athletes opened
6) Undemocratic cricket constitution rejected in Zimbabwe
7) How elections in the Nigerian Football Association were fixed
8) UEFA and European politicians to discuss governance in sport
Newsletter 24 August 2006
1) FIVB will not give the three millions it promised the UN
2) FIFA takes action against Croatian fans forming swastika
3) Collective doping scheme for young Chinese athletes exposed
4) Director of Swedish anti-doping organisation sniffed cocaine
5) Ismail Bhamjee looses all football posts
6) US judge rules that Balco reporters must give up source of leak
7) Check English language programme for Nordic gambling seminar
Newsletter 10 August 2006
1) Foreign correspondents say China is not ready for Olympic press corps
2) Play the Game creates open forum for dialogue
3) Athletes and sports officials in Iraq under constant threat of murder or abduction
4) New Zealand Cricket compensated for government’s human rights action
5) Greek politicians exempted football from new law after pressure from FIFA
6) IOC must soon reach decision on Park Yong-song
7) One Swaziland reporter assaulted by football player, another by fans
8) Conference in Denmark examines social and economic impact of mega events
Newsletter 7 July 2006
1) French NOC president in court on corruption charges
2) IOC’s Ethics Commission punishes Drut despite French pardon
3) Tourists are deterred by Olympics, claims new report
4) EU Commission will produce White Paper on sport in 2007
5) No amnesty in Italian match fixing scandal
6) Spanish authorities urged to open all files in doping case
7) Play the Game strengthens ties with sports scientists
8) Coverage of Play the Game conference in Spanish
9) Play the Game takes a summer break
Newsletter 23 June 2006
1) Jennings claims that FIFA repaid bribes to ISL
2) Play the Game publishes theme on gene doping
3) Four Italian Series A clubs charged with match fixing
4) FIFA officials abuse world cup ticket system
5) Cricket reporters still wait for official report on police attack
6) Play the Game launches conference magazine
7) Chairman of Play the Game gets top job in elite sport
Newsletter 10 June 2006
1) Play the Game publishes FIFA theme and invites FIFA to set record straight
2) Framework for FIFA’s new Ethics Committee unclear
3) Minister and Danish vice president resigns from WADA
4) Sports journalists fight HIV in Southern Africa
5) FIVB accuses ex-secretary general of embezzlement
6) Wild cup may set precedent for non-members of FIFA
7) Sportnetzwerk publishes first book on corruption in sport
8) Sports journalists attacked in Peru and Iraq
9) UEFA supports demand for reform of European football
Newsletter 26 May 2006
1) 70 national federations back challenge to FIVB
2) Nigeria risks FIFA ban as government haunts soccer president
3) BALCO journalists risk jail for protecting sources
4) Disgraced Italian soccer president can still work for FIFA
5) Italian TV host felled over his role in Juventus scandal
6) MEP's urge World Cup ban over Iran's nuclear policy
7) Historic merger in Germany
8) Nykredit Foundation gives important grant to Play the Game
Newsletter 9 May 2006
1) FIFA gets partial ban on sale of new book by Jennings
2) Goijman gives up appealing verdict in Volleygate
3) Sport leaders should be governed by ethics
4) Homeless World Cup 2007 in Copenhagen
5) Inquiry into massive police assault on cricket reporters
6) Footballers assault journalists in Peru
Newsletter 7 April 2006
1) FIVB rules make it impossible to challenge president
2) Work on test for gene doping has begun
3) Swedish ombudsman suggest World Cup boycott
4) Handball sponsor threatens life of Danish sports editor
5) FIFA lets off Jack Warner
6) Goijman appeals verdict in Volleygate case
7) New on Play the Game’s website: Upcoming events
Newsletter 17 March 2006
1) Football World Cup enrolled in fight against forced prostitution
2) MEP urges tv stations to help combat football racism
3) Referee convicted of match fixing may not go to jail
4) IOC member suspended after criminal conviction
5) IOC agrees to discuss membership for Greenland and Faroe Islands
6) FIFA lifts all restrictions on World Cup photos
7) Seminar in Copenhagen: Sport in the new Europe
Extra newsletter 15 March 2006
1) Ex-secretary general sets his sights on post as FIVB president
2) Read the previous news articles about the Volleygate trial
Extra newsletter 10 March 2006
1) Ruben Acosta demands an end to Goijman’s “game of vindictiveness
2) Check Play the Game’s theme page: All about Volleygate
Extra newsletter 9 March 2006
1) FIVB heavyweights point fingers at controller
2) Former finance secretary feels hoodwinked by Acosta
Newsletter 3 March 2006
1) Volleygate judge will only hear witnesses for the defence
2) IOC made human rights promises to Tibetans on hunger strike
3) European football review will encourage fan ownership of clubs
4) FIFA questioned on strange dealings by Warner
5) FIFA allows text on World Cup photos after all
6) Campus conference focuses on better governance in sport
Newsletter 17 February 2006
1) FIFA to punish Warner for violating Code of Ethics
2) IOC member convicted of embezzlement and fraud
3) Iran demands apology for German World Cup cartoon
4) UEFA steps up efforts against football racism
5) Sportsnetzwerk new Play the Game partner
6) News about Play the Game
Newsletter 3 February 2006
1) Fears that gene doping is now a reality
2) WADA consults with Sandro Donati on drugs trafficking
3) Shooting at home of critical sports reporter in Guatemala
4) Jack Warner sows confusion about tax on World Cup appearance
5) FIFA overturns Warner's attempt to deny reporter accreditation
6) Changes at Play the Game: Vicki Bjerre gets new job
Newsletter 19 January 2006
1) FIFA vice-president at the centre of World Cup ticket scandal
2) Speculative sports story led to death threats
3) Debate about new network for sports journalists in Germany
4) Newspaper editors fight sports photo restrictions
5) Deadline extension: Call for papers on media and sport
