(Image via Turner Sports) U.S. Soccer and Warner Bros. Discovery (Turner Sports) agreed to an eight-year media rights deal in March 2022, with hopes of growing the American game, specifically, the women’s game. This Tuesday, January 17th, HBO Max will become the latest streaming service to enter the live sports arena, when it broadcasts the... Continue Reading →
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is on its way, but not without a slew of controversy. In 2010, Qatar was “awarded” the winning bid to host the event. At the time, there were reports that FIFA officials were bribed to award the bid to Qatar, but ultimately a two-year investigation into this could not... Continue Reading →
[Photo via Mansoor Ahmad/The Reporter] Record-setting Minnesota State goaltender Dryden McKay has accepted a six-month ban from competition for violating an anti-doping rule, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). McKay was recently named the winner of this season’s Hobey Baker Trophy – the Division I men’s hockey equivalent of the Heisman Trophy –... Continue Reading →
In the past two weeks, two of the country’s most prominent amateur hockey programs, USA Hockey and the University of Michigan’s men’s ice hockey team have come into the limelight for their involvement in outside investigations. USA Hockey The U.S. Center for SafeSport, an independent organization designed to investigate allegations of abuse and misconduct for... Continue Reading →
Photo credit: http://www.scmp.com The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee announced it will require all athletes who wish to participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to be vaccinated. This is in line with stricter COVID regulations coming out of China and a change from the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, which did not require vaccines.... Continue Reading →
Photo credit: http://www.vanityfair.com The World Anti-Doping Agency is taking another look at whether marijuana should remain a banned substance, coming just a few short months after American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson tested positive following USA Olympic Trials. Remember that? In June, Sha'Carri Richardson won the women's 100m Trials in a time of 10.86 seconds, thrilling new... Continue Reading →
While it is common for sports leagues and organizations to be protective of their trademarks, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has unique trademark rights over various Olympic-related trademarks that no other American organization has. The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo in just over a year from now. In preparation for the... Continue Reading →
Remember when swimmer Katie Ledecky won the 800-meter freestyle at the 2016 Olympic Games? She finished more than eleven seconds ahead of her closest competitor—a gap that show-cased the then nineteen-year-old’s dominance in the pool and cemented her status as an Olympic superstar. When the games ended, Ledecky packed up her five medals (four gold,... Continue Reading →
At 3:00 am, the chant reverberated through my home. As a family with seven hockey playing kids, five of whom are girls, we have been closely following the USA women's ice hockey team. As the game progressed and Canada took the lead into the third period, we were riveted to the screen. When Monique Lamoureux... Continue Reading →
The Opening Ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympics kicked off in Pyeongchang a little over a week ago. Other than a cafeteria spat between a Canadian and a Russian official concerning Russia’s systematic doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, these games have been controversy free—at least in Korea. While not new, one recurring legal issue with... Continue Reading →