A who’s who guide of the candidates in the 2016 FIFA Presidential election…
Author: Isabelle Westbury
Sports Integrity Initiative: FIFA, gender and corruption – Enforcing the follow-on
Governance, Sports LawIn November last year The Sports Integrity Initiative published a feature piece probing into the scarcity of women found in the top jobs of sporting administrations, including those in FIFA. Later this month the election for the top job, the President of arguably the most powerful sporting institution in the world, will take place with, currently, five contenders – all male – battling it out for the top job. Of these five, only Jérôme Champagne was willing to discuss the issues. Former Presidential candidate David Ginola was another keen to put forward his vision.
The Herald Sun: Women’s Big Bash League a triumph for the true believers
Features, Print, Sport, The Herald SunIT’S easy to come away from the inaugural Women’s Big Bash League singing its unequivocal praises.
It’s easy to think that its stellar launch will continue seamlessly into next year, and beyond.
It’s easy too to assume that its success was written in the stars, right from the outset. It won’t necessarily, and it wasn’t. But what a first season it was.
Wisden India: India Women take step in right direction
Features, Print, Sport, The WisdenThree games apiece against the No. 1-ranked team in the world across all formats. Not a bad result, all things considered.
Channel 9: Australia v India T20I Series 2016
Channel 9, Sport, TelevisionPart of the Channel 9 commentary team for the T20I series between Australia and India in January 2016. Included Ian Healy, Mike Hussey, Melanie Jones, Alison Mitchell and Michael Slater.
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cricket.com.au: The Moneyball Big Bash
cricket.com.au, Features, Print, SportSome interesting statistics have been thrown up by both the women’s and men’s Big Bash
Everyone loves a stat, and none more so than the cricket connoisseur.
While statistics are not the be all and end all, they’ve a role to play not just in measuring performance but also in understanding trends and identifying areas for improvement in the game.
Sports Integrity Initiative: Essendon – The black, the white and the grey in between
Doping, Sports LawNightmare. A miscarriage of justice. Shocked. Manifestly unfair. A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. A Pandora’s box.
The reaction to this morning’s news that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned the AFL tribunal’s acquittal of 34 current and former Essendon players has sent shockwaves though the sporting world. The ruling transcends a sport confined in the most part to just one country, Australia, its repercussions setting a precedent for professional sport worldwide.
cricket.com.au: A new frontier for Perry
cricket.com.au, Features, Print, SportThe ultimate athlete, Ellyse Perry has been presented with a new challenge in the inaugural WBBL season
Ask any sports fan in Australia to name a female cricketer and chances are the first name they’ll jump to is Ellyse Perry.
cricket.com.au: Lanning returns to ruin Renegades’ run
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cricket.com.au: Under-30s need not apply
cricket.com.au, Features, Print, SportWith every match of the KFC Big Bash League another record is broken as crowd attendances sky rocket.
With every match too, the pedigree of the tournament grows in stature with performance after performance outdoing what previously didn’t seem possible.
With every match therefore comes growing speculation over the inevitable: the make-up of Australia’s World Twenty20 squad.
Isabelle Westbury 