The strange story of Nikolai Starostin, football and Lavrentii Beria An article by Jim Riordan in the journal Europe-Asia Studies describing the fate of Nikolai…
Organising MMA fighters The attempts to secure basic rights for mixed-martial arts fighters continue in the US.
Football to the footballers! - Footballers' Action Committee In the insurgent Paris of 1968 when millions of workers were on strike, the students had occupied…
Marching altogether? Football fans taking a stand against racism An article written by a co-founder of Leeds Fans United Against Racism and Fascism about their…
Blood Sport: a brief look at the sometimes violent resistance to public funding of sports stadiums in Arizona An article about violence around public funding of sports stadiums in Arizona, and…
The suns of anarchy An article about how the Phoenix Suns basketball team came out against anti-immigration laws in Arizona.
Not quite kicked out: racism in English football The past few months have been difficult for anti-racist football fans in England. As one instance of racism has followed the other, I've been…
Rugby and Apartheid A documentary about the history of South Africa v New Zealand international rugby matches and how apartheid affected this.
The political economy of professional wrestling: Capital, unions and spandex Jasmin Mujanović charts the history of the wrestling profession, McMahon's monopolization of the…
Millwall not scabs shock Prior to the two clubs meeting at The Den back in September 2011, Transpontine discussed the Millwall and West Ham rivalry and asked whether its…
Polish MMA promotion gives neo-nazi the boot Finnish MMA fighter with nazi tattoos gets the boot from KSW in Poland
What would a boxers union look like? This week on a recent episode of fight sport podcast No Holds Barred there's a section on the possibilities of organising boxers into a union…