Category: Politics of Sport

On the first day of Christmas Not Trackie gave to me… A Not Trackie 420 Zine Are some of your relatives annoying you this Christmas by dropping some freezing cold takes that would put them on the naughty list? The 🤙420🔥 Zine is here to heat it up for ya. Linked below! Tell your...

Braeden Charlton is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam where he conducts his studies in the Department of Behavioural and Movement Sciences. 1) Briefly, could you give a short summary of what your research experience has been since the beginning of the pandemic? The research we have focused on has been understanding the...

Note: You can also find this article in the latest edition of NextUp Magazine, which is put together by friend of the show Davis Rutledge (aka dlr.shoots). 5-10min read The Canadian Track and Field League (CTFL) entered the Canadian track and field scene on January 1, 2022 and has been embraced by many athletes...

The Short Version In November, over 100 university cross country athletes wore les cercles verts (green circles) to demonstrate commitment to climate justice. Please email sac.jc.usports@gmail.com or follow @sac.jc.usports on instagram to help continue building the movement. The Long Version The community nature of sports gives athletes a unique position of influence in society...

Prelude The community nature of sports gives athletes a unique position of influence in society and a platform that can be a powerful tool to spur social change –even fringe Canadian university sports can have many supporters. There are numerous examples throughout history where athletes chose to use their platforms to fight for social...

In the room of Canadian university athletics, it would seem, only the elephant remains. Two years ago this week, the biggest and most salacious sports misconduct story in Canadian university athletics history broke on none other than front page of our putative national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. The now infamous story—written by former...

The Short Read If we want sports to go on during a raging global pandemic, we should not simply advocate for sports while ignoring the harms they entail. We need to come to terms with the unjust decisions that have led to the cancellation of sports, and pay attention to the social implications of...