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None Fellows Seminars | Juliet Macur "The Power and Politics of Sports: Why Games Aren’t Just Games Anymore" University of Chicago Institute of Politics Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 3:00 PM (CST) Chicago, IL Ticket Information Type End Quantity January 12: The Power of the Athlete more info When top athletes talk, why does the public listen so closely? Because, in many cases, they have more power than politicians. When the University of Missouri’s football team went on strike to protest the way the university handled racial tensions on campus, it led to the ouster of the university president. When several members of the St. Louis Rams made a “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture, to show their solidarity with people protesting the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, it was the talk of the internet. When LeBron James and his Miami Heat teammates wore black hoodies to show their support for slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, it spurred countless dinner time conversations about whether athletes should even involve themselves in serious issues. Should athletes keep their focus on the playing field, or do they have a duty to speak out on social issues because so many people look up to them? When Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spoke out about Donald Trump’s idea to ban all Muslims from entry into the United States, why did it make an impact? Or, when Russia enacted an anti-gay law before the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, why did so many Olympic athletes refuse to talk about the politics of it, saying sports and politics should remain separate? What, exactly, is the duty of the athlete in those situations? Ended Free January 19: The FIFA Takedown: Corruption in Soccer and International Sports more info One morning last May in Zurich, Swiss law enforcement raided a five-star lakeside hotel and arrested some of the world’s most powerful officials in worldwide soccer. Those arrests marked the beginning of perhaps the biggest takedown in the history of sports, with FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, at the center of it all and United States federal prosecutors leading the charge to clean up the sport. How did those FIFA officials reign without much, or any, impunity for so many years? How did the International Olympic Committee allow global soccer to get to this point of such widespread corruption that, by the end of 2015, more than 40 officials in the sport pleaded guilty or were arrested for crimes that included receiving bribes and kickbacks? Why was the United States government the one to finally step in to say, enough? Can leadership of international sports — where so much money is to be made in the face of so little oversight — ever be trusted? Ended Free January 26: Fantasy Football Feud: The Debate over DraftKings & FanDuel more info Fantasy-league betting has become a multibillion-dollar industry. But will it soon be extinct? Online daily fantasy sports sites, like DraftKings and FanDuel, are commanding attention now and it’s nearly impossible to watch sports on television — or go to a sporting event, for that matter — without seeing their ads. Yet those days might be coming to an end. Those sites and ones like them are at the center of an ongoing, sizzling public policy debate that pits whether internet fantasy league gambling is a game of chance or a game of skill. If it’s a game of chance, then the government would have to step in to regulate it, or ban it outright. We discuss the future of fantasy leagues and whether they should be legal. Also, does that type of gambling dehumanize the athletes, who feel like disposable pawns in that money-making game? Should fans even care? Ended Free February 2: Former US Soccer Captain & Current ESPN Analyst Julie Foudy on Women in Sports more info The United States women’s national soccer team sued FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association last year, claiming discrimination because the 2015 Women’s World Cup had only artificial turf fields, instead of grass ones, which is the preferred surface for the game. The team asked: The men’s World Cup is played on grass and will be for the foreseeable future, so why do the women have to play on an inferior surface? The women’s team backed down from its case, as FIFA basically ran out the clock. Now do these women, whose World Cup-winning final game was the most watched soccer game in United States history, have the power to demand better fields? Or will women in sports always find themselves stuck behind men? For example, why are there only 37 female athletic directors in Division I sports, while 276 are men? Why do women’s pro leagues still struggle? If Title IX can’t fix this inequality, is there anything else Congress — or anyone or any institution, for that matter — can do to bridge this gap? Guest (via Skype): Julie Foudy, a Stanford graduate, is one of the most accomplished women’s soccer players in United States history and for years has been active in pushing for gender equity in sports. She is a former captain of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team and a former president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, where she focused on Title IX, childhood obesity and athletes’ rights. During her 17-year tenure with the national team, she won two FIFA Women’s World Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals. She now is a reporter and analyst for ESPN, ABC and espnW. Ended Free February 9: Life as a Sports Reporter: Where Athletes & Issues Collide more info Despite what you see in the movies, being a sportswriter is much more than just covering games and traveling to cool places, like Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics and the World Cup, France for a month every summer for the Tour de France and all around China to report about the Chinese sports system. Serious issues like domestic violence, gender equality, concussions and doping are now nearly beats at some news institutions, like the New York Times, where I often write about those subjects. I discuss the route I took to writing a column at the New York Times, which was far from a straight shot. Ended Free February 16: The Brazil 2016 Olympics: Global Showcase or Financial Scam? more info This August, the Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, where protesters in Brazil questioned why the country would spend money on a sporting event when that cash was needed elsewhere (such as education, medical facilities, the poor). Yet the International Olympic Committee chose Rio as a host anyway: The I.O.C. insisted, with blinders on, on bringing the Olympics to South America for the first time. We discuss how and why that happened. Why do countries want to host the Olympics, when it often leaves behind white elephant stadiums and huge debt, and fosters corruption? Why did Russian President Vladimir Putin push so hard to host the Sochi Games, then invade Ukraine just a few days later? Why did a country like Brazil want the Summer Games, when it has so many other, seemingly more important things to worry about — and what will it do now as the Games approach and it is in such political turmoil? When China hosted the 2008 Beijing Games, winning gold medals became a national obsession, as their athletes were tasked to win, win, win — sometimes at any cost. China wanted to prove the strength of its country on a global stage. Why do sports offer such an enticing venue for countries to show off? Ended Free February 23: The Concussion Crisis, with top traumatic brain injury expert Chris Nowinski more info Twenty years and more than 100 pounds ago, Ryan Hoffman was a standout lineman for the University of North Carolina football team, then one of the top teams in the country. In early 2015, though, he was homeless, struggling with mental illness and substance abuse and alcoholism. He blamed his troubles on football — that the repetitive hits to the head he sustained playing the sport had damaged his brain. In late 2015, Hoffman was dead, killed when he rode his bike into oncoming traffic on an unlit highway, with only $13 to his name. In this session, we ask, who failed Ryan Hoffman? What responsibility do universities and governments have in protecting athletes, both adults and children, from harm on the playing field, especially when it comes to concussions? Who really has the power in this struggle between the sport of football and the safety of its players? Potential Guest: Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Institute (formerly called the Sports Legacy Institute), former WWE wrestler and Harvard graduate. A leading expert on the issue of traumatic brain injuries in sports. ***TIME CHANGE: This seminar will be held from 12-1:15pm. Ended Free March 1: The Downfall of Lance Armstrong, with Whistleblower Betsy Andreu, Wife of Armstrong's Ex-Teammate more info In Lance Armstrong’s final days as a nearly universally beloved sports icon, he and his lobbyists tried their best to topple the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which was the quasi-governmental organization that would eventually make public his lifetime of lies and doping. We discuss how Armstrong wielded his political power and why politicians were eager to support him. We also look at the merits of a federal whistleblower case in Washington, of which Armstrong and his former team managers are defendants. The gist of the case: The United States Postal Service, which sponsored his cycling team, had an antidoping clause in its team contract, so it wants Armstrong to give that money back. Stepping back, we take a look at how Lance Armstrong became so powerful when he started out as just a bike rider. Guest: Betsy Andreu, an outspoken whistleblower who was the wife of Frankie Andreu, a top Armstrong teammate. She was one of the many people Armstrong bullied, but also one of the reasons for Armstrong’s precipitous fall. Ended Free Share Fellows Seminars | Juliet Macur "The Power and Politics of Sports: Why Games Aren’t Just Games Anymore" Share Tweet Event Details Sports used to be simple. Go to games. Play games. Have fun. Be entertained. Now it’s so much more. Every level of sports — from your local youth leagues straight up to the pros — has become big business that generates big money and big influence. On Capitol Hill, that sports business blatantly wields its power to get what it wants, and often succeeds. In the justice system, sports figures are, perhaps more than ever, at the center of major criminal investigations because they once felt invincible, but are no more. On the field, the sports world produces heroes that are discussed around the dinner table, in nearly every part of our country, with a searing fervor otherwise saved for debating politics or religion. In the Olympic world, sports help give nations credibility and also can spark international conflict. For good and bad, the sports world is bigger and more powerful than ever, and more complex than ever, with athletes wielding more and more influence over our culture and our politics. Tuesdays, 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. ***

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