As Sudan burns, the NBA’s embrace of the UAE shows how sport enables atrocity 13 December 2025 at 04:00

As Sudan burns, the NBA’s embrace of the UAE shows how sport enables atrocity

13 December 2025 at 04:00

While UAE-backed forces are accused of mass killings in Sudan, the NBA is deepening its partnership with the controversial Gulf state. This is what sportswashing looks like

As paramilitary fighters from the brutal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the largest city in western Sudan – carrying out mass executions, rapes and ethnic cleansing with weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates – the NBA’s annual in-season tournament, the Emirates NBA Cup, tipped off on Halloween night, proudly sponsored by the very same Gulf state.

The tournament is the most visible example of the NBA’s expanding partnership with the UAE – a partnership that includes annual preseason games in Abu Dhabi, a lucrative sponsorship deal with Emirates airlines, and plans for a new NBA Global Academy at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus.

A Hollywood ending? Inside the final days of LeBron James in Los Angeles 12 December 2025 at 05:00

A Hollywood ending? Inside the final days of LeBron James in Los Angeles

The Guardian

By:Rich Tenorio

12 December 2025 at 05:00

A new book explores how an all-time great and a world famous franchise handle the waning of a monumental career

In a book about LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, it’s only fitting that one memorable scene involves a Hollywood star: Will Smith.

Yaron Weitzman’s latest book is titled A Hollywood Ending: The Dreams and Drama of the LeBron Lakers. Suffice to say the plot thickens when Smith goes to the Lakers’ film room to speak to the team in 2022.

Jason Collins, NBA’s first openly gay player, says he has a year to live after brain tumor diagnosis 11 December 2025 at 18:01

Jason Collins, NBA’s first openly gay player, says he has a year to live after brain tumor diagnosis

The Guardian

By:Agencies

11 December 2025 at 18:01

Collins discloses stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosis
Former NBA trailblazer pursuing new therapies
Symptoms appeared and worsened rapidly

Jason Collins, the former NBA player who became the first openly gay man to play in a major US pro sports league, said Thursday he’s battling “one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer”.

Collins, who revealed in a brief statement in September that he was undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, said in an interview with ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne published Thursday that he has stage 4 glioblastoma.

One of the most pernicious forms of corruption in global sports 10 July 2025 at 03:53

One of the most pernicious forms of corruption in global sports

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By:chavenet

10 July 2025 at 03:53

"Spot-fixing" is the practice of manipulating small, discrete events that have little to no bearing on the outcome of a game—the timing of a yellow card in soccer, a wide ball in cricket, a single double-fault in tennis. Or, in the case of Ortiz, the result of one of the roughly 300 pitches thrown in the average baseball game. What makes spot-fixing so insidious is how inconsequential the occurrences appear in real time. from The Scourge of 'Spot-Fixing' Is Coming for American Sports [WSJ; ungated]

Related: The psychology of spot fixing – why athletes might gamble their careers [The Conversation]

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