Category: Sports Colonialism
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Fighting in the Age of Collapse
As institutions fail and collapse becomes constant, the UFC thrives as pure spectacle; yet every movement in the cage still carries older histories of resistance.
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Deni Avdija’s Zionism Shows It’s Not Just About Basketball
The public backlash towards Israeli NBA player Deni Avdija isn’t about his ethnicity or his birthplace — it’s about his public role in Zionism’s soft-power strategy in the broader context of colonial occupation, state violence, and an ongoing genocide.
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Winnipeg Hosts Grey Cup on 140th Anniversary of Riel’s Execution
On the day Canada marked 140 years since Louis Riel’s hanging, the Grey Cup celebrated Indigenous visibility, revealing the deep contradictions of the settler state.
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Ron MacLean Repeats Columbus Myth on Hockey Night
Ron MacLean’s Columbus remark repeats a colonial myth disproven by UNESCO, historians, and the TRC, revealing how national media still distort Indigenous history.
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Decolonizing Hockey and Canada’s National Story
How confronting racism, restoring Indigenous history, and reshaping power in hockey challenges the myths at the heart of Canadian national identity.
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How The UFC is Colonial
As the UFC’s influence in Africa and the Global South continues to expand, the intricate ties between colonialism, combat sports, and mixed martial arts have come to the forefront.
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