Mixed Zone blog

When it comes to sports innovation, what is fair? And which innovations should be banned? Clearly a motorized running shoe would cross a line, but shoes with springboard-like carbon plates that have improved runners’ times are deemed fair game. So where do we draw the line?

My son taught himself to play the guitar during Covid lockdown. Someone else recently told me they picked up French, and we all know about all the sourdough yeast starters out there.

When Dominique Malonga, the French teenager with the viral dunk videos, was selected second in the WNBA draft on April 14 by the Seattle Storm, many U.S.-based women’s basketball fans and even journalist

One of the more intriguing sights I encountered on a book reporting trip to England this month was a poster in a restroom at the University of Leeds entitled “Recognising Microaggressions.” Among the expressions listed that could, even unintentionally, amount to discrimination against members of

As we await this month’s fascinating European Champions League quarterfinals, we heartily recommend you watch Wolves: Champions of the World, a 13-minute documentary that sheds light on the iconic European competition’s origins.

In this scrimmage, Andrés and Victoria team up with fellows Sarah Spain and Des Linden to discuss Netflix acquiring the rights to the 2027 and 2031 Women's World Cups.

Before I get to the brilliance that is Sifan Hassan, first, I should explain what exactly we mean by a “VAR” blog. VAR, or video assistant referee, is a recent technology enhancement to the game of soccer for the purpose of video scrutiny of the play as well as the initial call by the ref.

Significant changes are coming to American college sports in 2025: schools are getting their ducks in a row to begin revenue sharing with athletes (mostly football and basketball athletes) for the first time in history, the new Congress will consider a raft of new legislative proposals to redesig

The Netflix Christmas Day streaming of two marquee NFL games is an underappreciated milestone in sport’s globalization, but its actual historical significance is being overshadowed by a more prosaic concern: Will buffering or other glitches mess with my enjoyment of the game?

As an ice breaker, we asked our Inaugural GGL Fellows some questions you might want to try out on friends at dinner

Puck & its The Varsity podcast with John Ourand: Puck is a small but smart newsletter-driven online publication that does a fantastic job of covering what we at The Great Game Lab like to call the mediafication of all sport.

It cost me $43 to go to Sao Paulo and attend a Formula 1 Grand Prix watch party, or at least a decent simulation of one at the F1 Arcade experience in Washington, D.C. I was a bit worried it might turn out like the Wonkagate incident in Glasgow, but that was not the case.