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Global Sport Matters: The Progress vs. Power Issue
How the NBA is (and isn't) opening doors to diverse coaches, stalled progress in diversifying sports team ownership, soccer fans against global…
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Patrick Hruby
Global Sport Matters: The Sports Media Issue (Part II)
Women making progress, covering sports when it doesn't stick to sports, the benefits of Black journalists covering Black athletes, the case for locker…
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Patrick Hruby
Global Sport Matters: The Sports Media Issue (Part I)
How Deadspin changed journalism, the stats gender gap, women athletes mastering social media, improving coverage of gendered violence, the case for…
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Patrick Hruby

July 2022

June 2022

Global Sport Matters: The Return On Our Sports Investment Issue (Part I)
The stadium subsidy bottom line, playing hardball with team owners, how the U.S. gives sports special breaks, fan ownership in German soccer, and…
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Patrick Hruby
Play Your Chips: Why U.S. Politicians Can and Should Demand More in Stadium Financing Deals
New ASU Global Sport Institute polling shows that Americans are skeptical of putting taxpayer dollars toward facility construction, and would welcome…
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Patrick Hruby
Global Sport Matters: The Mental Health Issue (Part II)
Pro tennis isolation, abusive coaching, the toll of press conferences, post-sport identity crises, athletes creating help services, "middle-status…
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Patrick Hruby

May 2022

Global Sport Matters: The Mental Health Issue (Part I)
What NCAA schools need to know, when heckling crosses the line, curbing racism in youth hockey, how youth coaches can help a COVID-spurred crisis, and…
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Patrick Hruby
The Little Anti-NCAA Basketball League That Couldn't
From NIL to empowering Black athletes, the Professional Collegiate League has been ahead of its time. So why has the would-be college sports disruptor…
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Patrick Hruby
Global Sport Matters: The Sustainability of Sport Issue (Part II)
Auto racing's electric future, the Seattle arena trying to set a green bar, how to spot sports "greenwashing," environmental justice in sports, and how…
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Patrick Hruby
Global Sport Matters: The Sustainability of Sport Issue (Part I)
Why the climate crisis is a sports crisis, how golf can become more sustainable, how heat and air pollution threaten mega-events and exacerbate…
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Patrick Hruby

April 2022

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