The reckoning has finally come for the sports organizations that have played footsie with autocratic nations. And not just FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, but for the Premier League, Formula One, and any sports league that has cashed checks from questionable international sources while pretending… Read more…
The reckoning has finally come for the sports organizations that have played footsie with autocratic nations. And not just FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, but for the Premier League, Formula One, and any sports league that has cashed checks from questionable international sources while pretending… Read more…
The reckoning has finally come for the sports organizations that have played footsie with autocratic nations. And not just FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, but for the Premier League, Formula One, and any sports league that has cashed checks from questionable international sources while pretending… Read more…
The figure skating community is up in arms over Russian skater Kamila Valieva‘s failed drug test. Of course, as we’ve been reporting, the 15-year-old skater has been allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics despite having recently tested positive for a banned substance. On Tuesday, Valieva took to the ice in Beijing for her highly controversial and […]
Unsurprisingly, Emmanuel Acho doesn’t have anything to say. Read more…
At least we can say the Winter Olympics are practiced at holding their events in a communist dictatorship, as they’ve held two of the last three in one. We’re just about three or four days into the whole thing, and already the stories of athletes being held against their will, shitty facilities, unprepared venues, and… […]
We’ve all known that these upcoming Olympic games were a bad idea, and that’s putting it insultingly lightly. When they were first announced, even if you could get past the tiny little morsel of the egregious human rights abuses of the Chinese government (and you shouldn’t), there’s the whole thing about Beijing… Read more…
It appears as though Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai , who has been at the center of an international controversy after high-profile leaders in the sport raised concerns about her well-being, may be safe and sound. As we’ ve been reporting, the three-time Olympian , who has already been one of the best tennis players […]
It’s been one of the longer lasting sagas in American sports, as the U.S. Women’s National team seeks either a new contract or a resolution to their lawsuit against U.S. Soccer that sees them make huge gains in pay for representing their country. U.S. Soccer would have you believe that it’s recently made an offer […]
The International Olympic Committee just needs to leave Raven Saunders alone. Read more…