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Migrant Workers Can’t Afford a Lockdown
As Qatar races to complete construction projects ahead of the 2022 World Cup, a small…
U.S. Says FIFA Officials Were Bribed to Award World Cups to Russia and Qatar
For nearly a decade, Russia and Qatar have been suspected of buying votes to win…
The Words of the Deep Source Match-Fixers
Last spring, I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a number of documents…
Egyptian ultras: Down but not out
Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi won a second term virtually unchallenged in what is widely…
Suspicious Games in the Champions League & the Great Olympic Stitch-Up
Interesting week in international sports. Lets start with the Champions League where once again we…
It’s a Mob Trial: FIFA in America
New York – Here at the Brooklyn Federal Court House, one of the most significant…
Powerful Sheikh Linked to Sports Corruption Case Resurfaces in Prague
Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, the head of the influential umbrella organization for the…
Rio police: Irishmen say their top official handled tickets
By Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two Irish Olympic executives have told Rio…
FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee member Lai pleads guilty to corruption in US investigation
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) official and head of the Guam Football Association, who has…
IOC Could Be Next Chapter in Ahmad FIFA Drama
(ATR) The IOC Ethics Committee is now reviewing the circumstances that have drawn IOC member…
FIFA official Sheikh Ahmad resigning amid bribery claims
GENEVA (AP) — FIFA Council member Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah of Kuwait is…
FIFA audit official admits bribery in US federal probe
MACOLIN, Switzerland (AP) — The sprawling American investigation of bribery and corruption in international soccer…
Hickey retains position as Olympics Autonomy Tsar despite Rio 2016 arrest
Patrick Hickey remains the listed International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegate member for autonomy despite his…
That Massive Investigation Into Soccer Corruption Is Still Alive And, Well, Kicking
The president of Guam’s Football Association pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of wire…
Mafia Threats and the To Do List for European Football
He is one of the most powerful men in world football. We met at the…
Fighting Justin
Five years ago, Canadian politics changed inside a boxing ring. The then backbencher MP Justin…
Football Association: Parliament to have ‘no confidence’ debate
As in the case of Koweit, the House of Commons is taking the initiative in…
Governments tighten control of national sport organisations
By Søren Bang Governments have a growing interest in the governance of national sports organisations.…
NEIL WILSON: Sir Craig should call the Sheikh’s bluff and go
THE NEIL WILSON COLUMN / An exclusive, authoritative series from Sports Features Communications (SFC) The International…
Creating a legal precedent: Palestine considers suing Israel in international sports court
The Palestine Football Association (PFA), in a first testing of Palestine’s ability to fight its…
“No solutions to wicked problems in sports, only better or worse”
Cycling might have done better by following how Major League Baseball documents its steroid era,…
FIFA Moves On From Luxury Hotel Where Officials Were Arrested
Tariq Panja tariqpanja Global soccer organization FIFA, seeking to repair its reputation after a corruption…
Israeli-Palestinian struggle returns to the soccer pitch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused world soccer body FIFA of allowing FIFA-sanctioned matches…
Egypt hopes soccer will help polish its tarnished image
An Egyptian businessman with close ties to general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has submitted a bid…
60 Minutes Sport, the Qataris & the Tobacco Industry
There used to be a public health phenomena called Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). The…
Kuwait dissolves Olympic Committee and National Football Association
Kuwaiti authorities seize offices of the National Olympic Committee and the National Football Association due…
Kuwait Emir gives impetus to sports scene to correct path
KUWAIT, Aug 29 (KUNA) — His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has…
Hickey warned he could spend three months in Rio jail before investigation into Olympic tickets scam comes to court
By Nick Butler at the Cidade da Policia in Rio de Janeiro International Olympic Committee…
How Irish Olympic chief walked into Brazil trap over scalped tickets
Pat Hickey, the powerful Irishman who heads the European Olympic Council, languishes in a top…
Six more Irish Olympic officials ordered detained by Brazilian judge
John Delaney, Head of the Irish Football Association, had already fled when the Brazilian judges…
Ireland’s Rio disgrace as Pat Hickey, head of Olympic Council, jailed (VIDEO)
Patrick Joseph Hickey (71), president of the Olympic Council of Ireland since 1989, is in…
Should we not have expected that…
…the IOC would drag their feed and ignore clear reports of state-sponsored, systemic doping, until…
With mosques under surveillance, IS turns to soccer for recruitment
Abu Otaiba, the nom du guerre of a self-taught imam and Islamic State (IS)…
The IOC’s Pat Hickey & The Mafia
PAT HICKEY KNOWS MORE THAN MOST about Olympic corruption. He has seen it firsthand over…
The Olympic contempt for clean athletes
When the IOC abstained from issuing a general ban on Russian athletes after the McLaren…
Everything Bad About the Rio Olympics Was Much Worse in Ancient Greece
Hygiene was a disaster, patriotism was out of control — and doping involved animal testicles…
If You Love Sports, Switch Off the Rio Olympics
Ten Points on the Russian Sports Doping Scandal 1. The only way to get…
Sports: A barometer of Saudi reform
Mohammed Simsim, the president of the Saudi Arabian Weightlifting Federation, embodies existential dilemmas involved…
Jihad v. Soccer: The Islamic State’s convoluted love-hate relationship
If the Islamic State (IS) was serious about attacking Euro 2016, its plans clearly never…
Milliard Russisk vil snuppe forbu
Det Internationale Skytteforbund er om muligt endnu mere lukket end FIFA Her gik man og…
Trouble shooting in the ISSF
It seems that not all 35 Olympic Federations are concerned with the IOC’s increasing demand…
Even With Confession of Cheating, World’s Doping Watchdog Did Nothing
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, JULIET MACUR and IAN AUSTEN When Darya Pishchalnikova, above, a discus…
Men’s hair takes centre stage in battle over legitimacy of political Islam
The Muslim world’s battle over the legitimacy of political Islam has expanded to the…
Muhammad Ali: the Fix and One of the Greats
It is one of the great sporting images of our time and it comes from…
FIFA’s knight with the long knife
First Domenico Scala, now Markus Kattner. Two big fish with key roles to play in monitoring…
Turkish soccer brawls: The battle for the future of the Kemalist state
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dresses up his increasing authoritarianism with nationalist and religious overtones,…
Fifa reformer says Gianni Infantino is using authoritarian tactics like Sepp Blatter
Fifa’s new president Gianni Infantino is using the authoritarian tactics of ex-leader Sepp Blatter, according…
Gianni Infantino’s first crisis as Fifa president intensifies as Prince Ali accuses him of ‘complete betrayal’
Ben Rumsby Gianni Infantino’s first crisis as president of Fifa intensifiedon Monday after he was…
2 Farces, Turkish Nightmare & Infantino’s Blatter-Lite FIFA
It was not a good week for sport. The Turkish nightmare continues. There are strange…