Sports and Society

Among the many disruptions taking place within the sports industry of late, from the way games are consumed to the technologies deployed in-arena, perhaps none is as profound as the rise in number and influence of women in leadership positions across leagues and individual franchises. A modern phenomenon, the...

Women’s sports are just incredible. ESPN’s broadcast of Serena Williams and Ajla Tomljanovic is the  most-watched tennis telecast in its  entire 43-year history . And the  highest attended women’s football match  of all time  was held in front of a record 91,553 spectators, who watched Barcelona play Real...

Women’s health and maternity policies are still holding female athletes back in their professional sports careers. Here’s a look at how select sports properties are making large strides to better support athletes in both womanhood and motherhood. With the FIFA Women’s World Cup on the horizon as one of the largest...

The recent men’s World Cup unintentionally raised awareness of the greatest goal scorers in the women’s game. At the same time, it also spotlighted the way the sports world often minimizes, ignores or erases women’s accomplishments. It all started when Cristiano Ronaldo converted a penalty in...

The National Press Club is "blasting Nexstar for striking a deal to broadcast the controversial Saudi-funded LIV Golf league on The CW." National Press Club President Jen Judson said,  "We are deeply disappointed that a company that makes money from news like Nexstar would agree...

Nike for three years had been "waging a fierce courtroom fight to keep a trove of internal documents under seal and out of the public eye,” according to Jeff Manning of the Portland OREGONIAN. The recent unsealed documents provide a "vivid portrait of women frustrated by pay disparities, harassment...

The Big East Conference leads the nation with seven of the 11 men’s basketball coaches being African-American, with conference Commissioner Val Ackerman noting it is something that "may not have been happening 20 years ago or five years ago." Marquette coach Shaka Smart noted the “fact that that’s an anomaly...

Baseball, the sport that once helped redefine racial boundaries in American society when Jackie Robinson integrated the NL in 1947, had been "slipping backward in recent years," and the 2022 World Series "was a jarring signpost," according to David Waldstein of the N.Y. TIMES. There were no U.S. born...

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones can make a "significant mark" on the league's diversity hiring efforts by "demonstrating and promoting how diversity is good for business," according to Jarrett Bell of USA TODAY. Jones is already in the Pro Football HOF “as a contributor to the sport, prominently on the...

On the night of Jan. 2, Jordon Rooney was sitting on his delayed American Airlines flight in Dallas, using Twitter to keep tabs on that evening’s “Monday Night Football” game when an avalanche of text messages struck. His colleagues were reaching out. His friends. His family. His...