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FIFA Folded in Three Days. The Fight Over World Cup Money Is Just Beginning
Read more: FIFA Folded in Three Days. The Fight Over World Cup Money Is Just BeginningThe boycott threat killed Gianni Infantino’s private-investment plan. FIFA’s apology and crisis meeting showed why the president—and the system behind him—survived.
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FIFA Wants to Sell a Stake in the Business Behind the World Cup. Here’s What That Means
Read more: FIFA Wants to Sell a Stake in the Business Behind the World Cup. Here’s What That MeansA proposed US$4.2 billion investment would give outside shareholders a long-term claim on FIFA’s commercial operations while promising far larger payments to its 211 member associations.
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Iran Played the World Cup in the Country That Bombed It
Read more: Iran Played the World Cup in the Country That Bombed ItIran qualified in March 2025. The US killed its supreme leader in February. FIFA sent the team to Inglewood anyway, and it played under escort.
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Kawhi Leonard Trade: Toronto Would Not Sign the Paper
Read more: Kawhi Leonard Trade: Toronto Would Not Sign the PaperThe Kawhi Leonard trade survived everything except a signature. Toronto agreed on June 30, then declined to put its name to the risk in writing.
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F1 Gulf Races Cancelled. The Base Next Door Explains Why.
Read more: F1 Gulf Races Cancelled. The Base Next Door Explains Why.The Bahrain circuit is twenty miles from a US base Iran already hit. F1 had a contract through 2036. The race and the base were always in the same project.
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MLSE Arena Workers and the Era Rogers Just Closed
Read more: MLSE Arena Workers and the Era Rogers Just ClosedRogers now owns all of MLSE. The company it bought spent 2020 promising to support 4,000 event staff through a benefit most of them could not claim. On July 6 Rogers agreed to buy Kilmer Sports’ remaining quarter of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for CAD $4.35 billion, ending the three-way ownership that had run…
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Egypt Beat Argentina for 79 Minutes and Then the Match Corrupted
Read more: Egypt Beat Argentina for 79 Minutes and Then the Match CorruptedShobeir saved Messi’s penalty. Egypt went 2-0 up in the last 16. Then the referee had three opinions, and Gaza buried a committee worker before halftime.
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Eleven Days of Moves, Then a $4.35 Billion Sale
Read more: Eleven Days of Moves, Then a $4.35 Billion SaleMLSE Rogers buyout: in eleven days the Leafs took McKenna, the Raptors mortgaged 2033 for Kawhi, and Rogers bought the rest of the company.
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Nineteen of Twenty Called It a Sham. Then Toronto Won.
Read more: Nineteen of Twenty Called It a Sham. Then Toronto Won.Maple Leafs draft lottery: nine weeks took the Leafs from a GM hire the league called a sham to the first overall pick and a $4.35 billion buyout.
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The Rangers Are Not Keeping Politics Out of Baseball
Read more: The Rangers Are Not Keeping Politics Out of BaseballThe Texas Rangers refuse Pride Night while running every other themed night. That is a choice, not neutrality.
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How Olympic Neutrality Silences Dissent and Protects Power
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show and Empire’s New Strategy
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Amber Glenn and the Limits of Visibility Politics
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How Super Bowl LX Amplifies Zionist Political Messaging
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The Olympics and the Collapse of Neutrality
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British Olympian Posts Anti-ICE Message on Olympic Opening Day
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Team Israel, World Baseball, and the Politics of Silence
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Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and America’s Halftime Split
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Sports as Infrastructure: How Games Power Capital and State