List of Sports articles
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GettyImages-80477129crop Kazakhstan Can’t Get No Respect
But can it get the 2022 Olympics?
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GettyImages-481383666crop Comedian Showers Sepp Blatter in Cash for North Korea’s 2026 World Cup Bid
An artful interpretation of how bribe-taking happens at world soccer's governing body.
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GettyImages-479601116_worldcup1 If Only the World Could Fail Like Americans Do
Crises from the EU to China to the Middle East might become opportunities for bigger wins tomorrow.
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TDF_1 Once Upon a Time: Scandal on the Tour de France
The legendary race’s long history of thugs, drugs, and cheating.
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter speaks during a press conference following an executive meeting of the world football governing body at the Home of FIFA on March 21, 2014 in Zurich. A report on the rights of migrant workers involved in the construction of sports infrastructure in Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup and an update on the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil were on the agenda. AFP PHOTO / MICHAEL BUHOLZER (Photo credit should read MICHAEL BUHOLZER/AFP/Getty Images) Snap Poll: Is a Soccer Scandal More Scandalous If It Involves Putin?
We asked scholars about the FIFA indictments, how Europe is managing its migration crisis, and if it's time to give up on Greece.
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GettyImages-491973451 FIFA’s $32 Million Biopic Performed About as Well as Its Anti-Corruption Rules
FIFA spent upwards of $30 million to make a biopic. It made $918 in the United States.
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GettyImages-476846914crop In Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, PR Does You
The European Games open today in Azerbaijan, whose authoritarian leader has conceived of the event to boost the country's international profile.
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Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images GCC: Middle East Journalists Need to Counter U.S. Anti-Qatar Propaganda
The Gulf Cooperation Council wants journalists in its region to push back against Western reports about the Qatari World Cup.
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GettyImages-475237568crop FIFA Says It Will Delay Vote for 2026 World Cup Amid Corruption Scandal
FIFA's secretary general also defended himself against allegations of corruption.
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GettyImages-470585146 John Oliver Goes on Trinidadian TV to Beg Jack Warner to Spill FIFA’s Secrets
Watch John Oliver's Trinidadian TV spot begging Jack Warner to come clean.
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Fog gathers in the stadium prior to the English Premier league football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield in Liverpool, north-west England on February 6, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ANDREW YATES. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or ?live? services. Online in-match use limited to 45 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo credit should read ANDREW YATES/AFP/Getty Images) The Inconvenient Truth About Soccer
Why handing FIFA over to Germany and England is no way to fix it.
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GettyImages-478551825 You’ll Never Guess Which Country Is Trying to Get Good at Hockey
In an effort to strengthen its 2022 Winter Olympic bid, China is trying to get good at hockey.
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GettyImages-73270929crop Did Germany Send RPGs to Saudi Arabia in Order to Win the World Cup?
A German press report alleges widespread corruption in securing the 2006 tournament.
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489424345crop Qatar Claims No Migrant Workers Have Died for the World Cup. Could That Be True?
Allegations of corruption at the highest levels of FIFA has put the spotlight on the 2022 World Cup host's human rights record.
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458031820 The FBI’s Probe Into the Russian and Qatari World Cups Could Undermine FIFA Reform
A U.S.-led probe into FIFA could cement many of the bad behaviors allowed by Sepp Blatter.
