Tag: Sports

Canadian Premier League soccer players are being paid poverty wages by billionaire team owners. Now, a new union is helping players fight for dignity and respect.

Is it possible to separate the pleasures of pro sports from a masculinity that is rooted in the degradation of women and queer people?

In his new book, Matt Hern argues that “sports offers us an arena where we can resist neoliberal logics and bodily encounter liberatory ideals.”

As the sport gains popularity and leagues attract increasingly diverse members, the question of how to include trans women has sparked important conversations and at times led to divisions.

Fifteen thousand people pack the seats of the sold-out MTS Centre in Winnipeg. They cheer wildly as the home team Jets rush the puck up through the neutral zone. Cheers erupt louder still as shots are fired on goal, bodies slammed brutally into boards, and pucks are buried deep in the visitor’s net.