Matthew J. Mitten (Marquette): The Court of Arbitration for Sport and its Global Jurisprudence: International Legal Pluralism in a World Without National Boundaries. Neeraj Kumar Mehra Manish Kumar Vats (Delhi): United Nations, Olympism and International Understanding in Sports. Martin Muller (Zurich): The Topological Multiplicities of Power: The Limits of Governing the Olympics. Fred LeBlanc (Otago): Sporting Homonationalism: Russian Homophobia, Imaginative Geographies and the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. Alex Krumer (Ariel) and Mosi Rosenboim and Offer Moshe Shapir (Ben-Gurion): Gender, Competitiveness and Physical Characteristics: Evidence from Professional Tennis. Didier Demaziere and Morgan Jouvenet (CNRS): The Market Work of Football Agents and the Manifold Valorizations of Professional Football Players. Baris Cayli (Stirling): Using Sports Against the Italian Mafia: Policies and Challenges on the Path of Cultural Renewal. From Der Spiegel, football is increasingly becoming a platform for right-wing extremist violence across Germany. Heil Schmidt: The world’s second-most-infamous Nazi was a French-Canadian wrestler. Patriot games: Michael Prodger on the innovation and drama of Soviet sports. Geoff Dyer reviews The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong by Guido Mina di Sospiro. David Cast reviews Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds by Paul Christesen. From stadium to page: Lee McGowan on why football deserves more fiction. Alice Gregory on how surf contests might be the strangest of all athletic competitions. An imported sport, soccer gets its own glossy magazines in the U.S. Benjamin Markovits writes about what it takes to win at sport. Here are 10 reasons chess may never make it as a spectator sport.
