Category: Sports Politics
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Sophie Cunningham’s Fever Exit Raises a Bigger Question
Sophie Cunningham free agency now includes an Indiana endorsement, another A’ja Wilson controversy and a bigger question about her value.
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FIFA Folded in Three Days. The Fight Over World Cup Money Is Just Beginning
The 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
A 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
Iran 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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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
Rogers 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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Freedom for Capital: The UFC at the White House
UFC Freedom 250 exposes how monopoly sports capital converts fighter labour, state power, and nationalist spectacle into private corporate value.
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Canada Losing Would Break the World Cup Montage
Canada Soccer wants World Cup glow without responsibility for the border-policed, hyper-commercial spectacle it helped legitimize.
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Trump Brought the Cops to the Knicks’ Biggest Night
Trump’s NBA Finals appearance turned Madison Square Garden into a security event, exposing how power, policing, ownership, and public life move through sport.
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Pep Guardiola Palestine Critics Crossed the Line
Pep Guardiola defended Palestinians in Gaza. The backlash exposed football’s selective neutrality, where approved politics are welcomed and Palestine is policed.
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How UFC’s Conflict Machine Became Trump’s Government
The UFC taught Trump politics as permanent fight promotion. Steven Cheung, Dana White, and the White House card show spectacle becoming governance.
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