Sport
Totalitarianism, Violence against Women and an Overdue Olympic Boycott?
MacIntosh Ross Biao Teng mercatornet.com MacIntosh Ross is an assistant professor in kinesiology at Western University in Ontario. Biao Teng is Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. On Nov. 2, 2021, Chinese tennis pro Peng Shuai took to Weibo — a Chinese microblogging site — to recount her alleged
CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week 20th Anniversary Postponed until 2023
Uncertainty over Covid restrictions, among other organisational issues, has forced the cancellation of the next edition of one of NZ’s biggest and best-loved sailing events, CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week. The event, which would have been celebrating its 20th anniversary in January 2022, will now postpone celebrations until
Why NZ Cricket Should Never ‘Take the Knee’
Andrew Davis It is sad to see that out-of-touch, virtue-signalling athletes, including our very own Black Caps, are still ‘taking the knee’ before they play a bit of sportsball. Not only that but if an athlete refuses to take part, they are often bullied and threatened until they are coerced
Olympic Games Are Great for Propagandists
Michael J. Socolow University of Maine Michael J. Socolow is the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine and is a media historian whose research centers upon America’s original radio networks in the 1920s and 1930s. His scholarship on media history has appeared in Journalism
What Will They Take from You Next?
Darryl Betts Beneath the devastation the New Zealand government has wrought on businesses, jobs, and schools is the looming threat to large parts of what remains of people’s lives outside of work. Vaccine mandates threaten to permanently deprive many people of things that make life worth living. This isn’
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‘Mixed Gender’ Matches Prove Brutal Unfairness of ‘Inclusion’
If, as activists insist, “gender is just a construct”, and hulking “transgender women” enjoy no unfair physical advantage over actual women in sports, then why are so many people outraged about an inter-gender Mixed Martial Arts competition? After all, shouldn’t it just prove the transgenderists’ point that men can
What Soccer Referees Can Teach Us about Politics and Government
Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American I think that if there is something we can all agree on is that we do not like it when a referee wants to