Expanding on the literature on antitrust, multiple ownership, and collusion in sports, this paper finds a very unusual result pattern between two clubs competing in the Croatian soccer league—Lokomotiva and Dinamo Zagreb. Their close sporting and business relationship has raised many questions...

This paper uses the Russian Federation as a case study, to demonstrate the deployment of social networking sites (SNS) in Psychological Operations (PsyOps). Through strategic dissemination of information, PsyOps intend to override objective reasoning of a target, in favor of a predetermined...

Brazil is developing in sport management, what gets Brazilian soccer teams to take less advantage over the several means of raising income that exist, among which there is sport sponsorship. In this sense, given its importance and considering the gap of studies using new methods for sponsorship...

Qigong has been around for more than 4,000 years. It contains aspects of martial arts, philosophy, theology, mindfulness, meditation, exercise, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is a subfield of health economics. Practicing qigong exercises on a regular basis can improve health and...

This article examines the organisational structure of the world governing body of the sport of cycling, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). It describes aspects of this structure that are democratically unrepresentative and discriminatory between the members of the organisation. Conflicts...

This article examines recent controversies in the sport of cycling with a focus on the governance of the sport by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). In particular, it examines allegations raised against the UCI in the recent U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team/Lance Armstrong doping...

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...

A recent article by Bobby Azarian discussed the state of current thinking on cosmology and the possibility that the universe might be a giant neural network that continues to expand without end. Similarities were drawn between neuroscience and cosmology, which seemingly overlap in some important...

The aim of this paper is to analyse civil-military cooperation, intelligence and information support with emphasis on operation delta safe in Nigeria. This paper relies on existing literatures using data and information curated from existing sources. This means that this study did not use animal...

Professional female athletes have long and bitterly complained that their compensation seriously lags behind that awarded to their male counterparts, and that this situation is unjust. The problem with this argument is that it is based on the labor theory of value, a long-discredited theory that...