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Olympics commentator axed over sexist remark - BBC News apple.news/AWoyvOe-tQaa9e…

Opinion | Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future - The Guardian apple.news/AM1wATz4CQvWQS…

Less than half of Generation Z watch broadcast TV - BBC News apple.news/Axfp7A1xFSh6Jk…

The fake Al Michaels is surprisingly good in Olympics highlights - The Washington Post apple.news/ASGfCdvDWS9KQi…

Voices: Olympic boxer Imane Khelif is a woman and has always been a woman (no matter what JK Rowling says) - The Independent apple.news/AspQDuOgtSg6eI…

The eye-popping $77 billion haul that shook up the NBA landscape — and the future of media - The Athletic apple.news/ANwqCTWZnQTOKo…

Elon Musk's X taken to court in Ireland for grabbing EU user data to train Grok without consent - TechCrunch apple.news/AAEloVVqZR-yyg…

Elon Musk Has Turned X Into His Personal Political Playground - WIRED UK apple.news/A3DaSfPK3QZeB4…

Were the Paris Olympics the greatest ever? They were on TV and streaming - The Athletic apple.news/AsHUWDWdMRJKbC…

Opinion | As an ex-Twitter boss, I have a way to grab Elon Musk’s attention. If he keeps stirring unrest, get an arrest warrant - The Guardian apple.news/AnRMQhZ5WQyCD8…

Opinion | I’m an international student – we’ve been so demonised, no wonder Britain’s losing us - The Guardian apple.news/AePMlCnudSiGEx…

The English Premier League Will Ditch Its Hated VAR Offside Tech for a Fleet of iPhones - WIRED UK apple.news/ANuW91h3KRdGlQ…

📢 The Final Programme for the 16th ESA Conference in Porto has been updated! Check out the latest schedule and details here: 🔗bit.ly/46MXFiQ #ESA2024 #ESAPorto24

A brief visual glimpse of yesterday. 16th ESA Conference Opening Ceremony & Plenary 1 on "Tension" and the Celebration of the 30 years of ESA

New paper with The Putney Way and Victor Lopes. Long title 🤣. "É nossa, é Do Brasil Inteiro” (It’s Ours, It’s for the Whole of Brazil”): Football, The Yellow Shirt, National Politics, and Conjunctural Contestation: Leisure Sciences: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Two hires from our "Communication & Media Science" Division focus on the impacts of new and emerging media and information technology on society. I am on the search committee.

Great to see our new article published in Globalizations where we bring together Beck and Bourdieu’s work to conceptualise what we call a ‘power game field’ Dr Renan Petersen-Wagner LJMU International Relations and Politics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW ARTICLE ALERT | Conceptualizing a ‘power game field’ through the case of ‘Padrão FIFA’: bridging together Beckian and Bourdieusian insights, by Renan Petersen-Wagner & Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, available online and open access ahead of print. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

GET A JOB! PhD students in Sport sciences specialising in social sciences and the humanities, to Malmö University idrottsforum.org/phd-students-i… via The Editor