Addressing racism in sports: hate needs to be tackled on and off court

Recently the Utah women’s basketball team suffered racist insults, which is far from being the first and last, raising a debate on how to address this issue. Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne ... Read More

America Made a Huge Bet on Sports Gambling. The Backlash Is Here.

American sports spent more than a century keeping gambling as far away as possible, in the name of preserving competitive purity and repelling scandal and corruption. Now, less than six years ... Read More

Taking politics out of sports management

THANKFULLY, our new Youth and Sports Minister views sports as a vehicle for boosting nationalism and economic and social development. As such, he sees it as within his purview to enact policies ... Read More

POLI.2180 Introduction to Politics and Sports (Formerly 46.218)

Analyzes the growing importance of sports in American life. Examines the psychological, political and social impact of sports on society. Discusses how sports have been shaped by such monumental ... Read More

For many years, racism was another tradition at the Masters, and throughout the PGA

The Masters is just around the corner, and we will be reminded time and again by Jim Nantz, “The Masters is a tradition unlike any other.” If you want to believe that, fine, but the fact is ... Read More

A Paris exhibit shows how the Olympics mirror society, from Nazi propaganda to fighting inequalities

PARIS — More than a sporting competition, the Olympics are also a powerful political stage widely used ... Russia and Belarus are barred from team sports at the Olympics because of Moscow's ... Read More

'Racism is real ... and it's awful,' Utah women's basketball coach says after team says they faced harassment on night out

The trucks then turned around and came back towards the team and yelled the N-word at them as many of the Utah players are African American ... Coach Roberts said. "Racism is real, and it ... Read More

Metz Action Against Racism

FC Metz joins the week of actions against racism and antisemitism along with ... about the importance of diversity and unity in sports. Read More

How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave

The cemetery broke ground almost two centuries ago, in 1826, as the graveyard of Piney Grove Baptist Church. The church has been gone for decades; the cemetery now sits on the property of a townhouse ... Read More

The violent fall of a great American sports star

In America, however, she’s one of the most significant sports personalities of the 21st century. Not only was she the first female superstar of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the ... Read More

‘American Sports Story’ Casts J. Alex Brinson as Odin Lloyd | Exclusive

“American Sports Story” has cast J. Alex Brinson as Odin Lloyd, TheWrap has exclusively learned. The upcoming anthology series developed by Stu Zicherman and executive produced by Ryan ... Read More

Code Switch

We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we ... Read More