“A Darker Side To Youth Sports“ Children in today’s society are encouraged to participate in sports programs as they can promote fundamental values such as character building, teamwork, determination and commitment. But this bias can be troublesome if it prevents us from seeing that problems in youth sports do exist. While we have recently come …

In a national effort to increase participation and retention of African-American and Hispanic girls in youth athletics, the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) and espnW announced today the 2016 recipients of the “Sports 4 Life” initiative. Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) has awarded $194,250 in funding to 40 organizations this year to serve more than 10,000 middle …

A fantastic article written by Sibylle Freiermuth from SportandDev.org on the issue of human rights abuses, Fifa and the World Cup. Sibylle asks the question that is on a lot of peoples minds, “is fifa doing enough to ensure that the world cup is not complicit in human rights abuses”!!! On the 23rd of this …