A lot has been said about FIFA's reform process, and it is difficult to get a sense of what has actually been accomplished. In this article, Roger Pielke present the results of his formal evaluation of the reform process,...[more]

New report from Dutch anti-doping commission has investigated the doping culture in Dutch cycling and argues that up to 95 % of Dutch cyclist used doping during the EPO-years in the late 1990s. Through interviews, the commission...[more]

Protests over the rising costs of public transportation and the expense of hosting the 2014 World Cup have spread, leading as many as 200,000 protesters to march through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities.  On Monday,...[more]

Sport England’s newest survey on sport and active recreation in the UK shows a fall in regular sports participation of 220,000 in the past year, the number of active +26-year-olds has dropped by 280,000. In spite of governmental...[more]

In order to know more about the football supporters’ significance in the Turkish demonstrations, Andreas Selliaas has interviewed Tolga Senel, Turkish expert on football and sports politics.[more]

Roger Pielke Jr. comments on the role of Sunil Gulati - member of FIFA's governance reform committee until he was recently elected to join the FIFA ExCo - who last week at FIFA's Congress in Mauritius "found himself in the odd...[more]

At UNESCO’s international conference of sports ministers in Berlin there was wide agreement on the need to strengthen the global action against match-fixing and other types of corruption in sport. But the Berlin Declaration does...[more]

Up to $ 30 billion has been stolen from the budget of the Sochi Winter Olympics, argues Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, in a new report released yesterday. In the report, Nemtsov and co-author Leonid Martynyuk, another...[more]

At the sports minister conference, MINEPS V, in Berlin yesterday, Sport Integrity Director Chris Eaton presented his views on what the global society must do in order to preserve the integrity of sport.[more]

Play the Game 2013 has extended the deadline for submitting grant applications to 27 June 2013.[more]