Andy Grainger
@andygrainger.bsky.social
Nomadic Kiwi | Lecturer in the sociology of sport and physical cultural studies | UMD PCS Grad | Gadigal Lands
Interesting events going on for those is the sport diplo/soft power space: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Magnus Carlsen shows how Saudi Arabia gobbles up global sports stars
The outstanding chess player of his generation is the latest figure to be associated with a kingdom that uses entertainment to pacify the public
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Interesting events going on for those is the sport diplo/soft power space: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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The electronic version of the journal is now available to @nassh1972.bsky.social members! #SportHistory #NASSH2025 #Skystorians
Details: mailchi.mp/4b8357ef2aba...
Details: mailchi.mp/4b8357ef2aba...
Electronic Version of the Journal of Sport History Now Available to NASSH Members
mailchi.mp
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The electronic version of the journal is now available to @nassh1972.bsky.social members! #SportHistory #NASSH2025 #Skystorians
Details: mailchi.mp/4b8357ef2aba...
Details: mailchi.mp/4b8357ef2aba...
FIFA 🤦
FIFA president says FIFA is opening an office in Trump Tower, former lair of the late Chuck Blazer, one of the most corrupt officials in FIFA history, in many ways the patient zero of the entire FIFA scandal, location from where plans for the theft of many millions of football’s money were hatched.
July 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
FIFA 🤦
For those interested in supporting the cause: Save Sociology at Macquarie: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics.
Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...
www.megaphone.org.au
July 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
For those interested in supporting the cause: Save Sociology at Macquarie: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
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My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff
As the IOC ushers in new leadership, Donald Trump’s second term is already wreaking havoc on LA 28 – and turning a global celebration into a national security crackdown
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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Published in time for WAFCON, Kadija Bouyzourn, Nicole Matuska, Andrew Grainger and I wrote The Long Rise of the Moroccan Women’s Football Team
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
The Long Rise of the Moroccan Women's Football Team | 15 | Critical Pe
This chapter explores the long rise of the Moroccan women’s football team to the world stage, considering the political and cultural factors that serve to
www.taylorfrancis.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Published in time for WAFCON, Kadija Bouyzourn, Nicole Matuska, Andrew Grainger and I wrote The Long Rise of the Moroccan Women’s Football Team
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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The June double issue is now published!
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Read a welcome from new editor Dr. Doug Hartmann, a reflection on the history of the journal from Dr. Lawrence Wenner, and 8 new empirical articles.
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Read a welcome from new editor Dr. Doug Hartmann, a reflection on the history of the journal from Dr. Lawrence Wenner, and 8 new empirical articles.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The June double issue is now published!
journals.sagepub.com/toc/JSS/curr...
Read a welcome from new editor Dr. Doug Hartmann, a reflection on the history of the journal from Dr. Lawrence Wenner, and 8 new empirical articles.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/JSS/curr...
Read a welcome from new editor Dr. Doug Hartmann, a reflection on the history of the journal from Dr. Lawrence Wenner, and 8 new empirical articles.
New book alert. Shameless self promotion… but also a chance to publicly thank my co-editors and all our wonderful contributors! 🙌🙌🙌
Our new book is out today!
We’re pleased to announce the release of our new edited book: Critical Perspectives on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Events, Issues, Controversies (Routledge).
We’re pleased to announce the release of our new edited book: Critical Perspectives on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Events, Issues, Controversies (Routledge).
July 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New book alert. Shameless self promotion… but also a chance to publicly thank my co-editors and all our wonderful contributors! 🙌🙌🙌
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Without input from parents or students, the Education Department ordered several civil rights investigations on its own — targeting schools with trans athletes, gender-neutral bathrooms and initiatives it sees as discriminatory to white students.
A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing…
www.propublica.org
June 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Without input from parents or students, the Education Department ordered several civil rights investigations on its own — targeting schools with trans athletes, gender-neutral bathrooms and initiatives it sees as discriminatory to white students.
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if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.
June 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.
While Sky (rightly) gets a lot of stick for its monopoly tactics over broadcast rights, it gets some things right 👏 www.sky.co.nz/rangiata-sky...
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June 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
While Sky (rightly) gets a lot of stick for its monopoly tactics over broadcast rights, it gets some things right 👏 www.sky.co.nz/rangiata-sky...
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New video alert! Brian Wilson, Professor in Kinesiology at UBC, Director of UBC’s Centre for Sport & Sustainability, & member of the Mobilizing Sport & Sustainability Collective, explores links between sport, environmental issues, & sustainability. sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/explainer-vi...
Sport, the Environment and Sustainability: Is ‘Sustainable Sport’ Always ‘Environmentally Friendly’ Sport?
sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca
May 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New video alert! Brian Wilson, Professor in Kinesiology at UBC, Director of UBC’s Centre for Sport & Sustainability, & member of the Mobilizing Sport & Sustainability Collective, explores links between sport, environmental issues, & sustainability. sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/explainer-vi...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Time for USian academics to do what’s right and not just what is easy and/or convenient. Support the shifting of conferences and other academic endeavors away from here.
"I don't even think for research I can justify at this point taking the risk of traveling to the United States," said @nkalamb.bsky.social. I'm grateful that academic orgs like @nasssbsky.bsky.social are standing up for the safety of their members by holding their fall conference in two locations
"[I] will not be travelling to the United States right now because it feels very dangerous to do so.”
Academic organizations are changing their conference plans to deal with the threat of the US border.
www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7531255
Academic organizations are changing their conference plans to deal with the threat of the US border.
www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7531255
May 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Time for USian academics to do what’s right and not just what is easy and/or convenient. Support the shifting of conferences and other academic endeavors away from here.
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It’s going to be especially hard in the US part of the tournament since we’ve made child labor great again as well.
FIFA has not published a Child Safeguarding policy for the 2026 World Cup. $3 billion in reserves and millions allocated to human rights and safeguarding departments and it can't even do this. Remarkable. Piece by @minkyworden.bsky.social @katherinelapuente.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
FIFA Has No Child Safeguarding Policy for 2026 World Cup
In two months, the FIFA Club World Cup, an international football tournament for club teams, will kick off in the United States, serving as a testing ground for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup next year...
www.hrw.org
April 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It’s going to be especially hard in the US part of the tournament since we’ve made child labor great again as well.
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In lieu of their annual PCS Grad Student Conference, PCS@UMD will be hosting a “Response to the Moment." Friday, 25th of April 10am-4pm ET, in person at the UMD School of Public Health and live streamed via Zoom (details and QR code in the flyer).
April 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
In lieu of their annual PCS Grad Student Conference, PCS@UMD will be hosting a “Response to the Moment." Friday, 25th of April 10am-4pm ET, in person at the UMD School of Public Health and live streamed via Zoom (details and QR code in the flyer).
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Real leadership when required most from @nasssbsky.bsky.social. Other scholarly orgs should take note.
In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this year’s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate.
April 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Real leadership when required most from @nasssbsky.bsky.social. Other scholarly orgs should take note.
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Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
The NFL is removing 'End Racism' from its Super Bowl end zone
Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
www.npr.org
February 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
While the NRL targets Vegas and the US…😳 www.nfl.com/news/melbour...
Melbourne to host first-ever NFL regular season game in Australia in 2026; Rams designated team
The National Football League today announced a multiyear commitment to play regular season games in Melbourne, Australia beginning in 2026 as the league continues to take international games to new ma...
www.nfl.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
While the NRL targets Vegas and the US…😳 www.nfl.com/news/melbour...
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Here’s to the spirit and courage of these wāhine on this day. “The quiet but powerful protest staged by the wāhine at Waitangi” www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
The quiet but powerful protest staged by the wāhine at Waitangi
Māori leaders in the Far North turned their collective back in an emotional demonstration.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Here’s to the spirit and courage of these wāhine on this day. “The quiet but powerful protest staged by the wāhine at Waitangi” www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
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It’s Waitangi Day in AoNZ. I hope the support of the nga tupuna and the belief in the tamariki keep the treaty from harm. Kia kaha to all the resistance. ❤️🖤🤍
February 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s Waitangi Day in AoNZ. I hope the support of the nga tupuna and the belief in the tamariki keep the treaty from harm. Kia kaha to all the resistance. ❤️🖤🤍