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Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Weapon of Putin's war, anti-gay law jars NHL in US

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The NHL Chicago Blackhawks Sunday will host an annual Pride Night , but the team will not be wearing warm-up pride jerseys as intended, fo...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Politics complicates football: Sympathy for ... Iran

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As advertised , last week in Kraków, Poland, I had the great privilege to talk law, development, and the FIFA World Cup, with the group sta...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

With FIFA World Cup under way in Qatar, law students study sport and soft power, law and development

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I'll be talking law, development, and the World Cup today in Kraków, Poland. Thanks to the American Law Scientific Circle (KNPA) and Am...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Qatar World Cup opens Sunday; meanwhile, Netflix series stokes embers of FIFA corruption scandal

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I visited CONMEBOL HQ in Asunción, Paraguay, in October. The South American angle on the FIFA corruption scandal was engagingly fictionaliz...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Qatar drops beIN sport piracy claim as World Cup nears

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Sideline interview with beIN (Ronnie Macdonald CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) Qatar withdrew its complaint in April in the World Trade Organization...
Monday, May 4, 2020

UK football letter roils world sport, and real world, too

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Letter posted on Twitter by the AP 's Rob Harris The English Premier League football (soccer) organization wrote to the U.S. Trade ...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

U.S. female footballers suffer slide tackle in equal pay match: Understanding the summary judgment decision

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U.S. co-captain Alex Morgan is the first named plaintiff. ( Photo by Jamie Smed CC BY 2.0 .) The women of U.S. Soccer suffered a maj...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

“A Fair Shake for the Sheikh,” or “Cut Qatar Some Slack”: On World Cup 2022

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My photo at a Qatar Stars League double header in March 2016: Empty stands tell the tale of native public interest in football.  How...