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I mostly write fiction and about the politics of sports.
Finalist - Smokelong Quarterly Flash Fiction Award
Longlisted - Bath Flash Fiction Award
The Saudi-funded TKO Group, which also owns UFC and WWE, is starting its own boxing promotion. With the support of MAGA Republicans, it plans to upend the sport's protections, scrap safeguards, and undermine regulatory institutions.
The WNBA is more popular than ever. On the back of this success, and with rival leagues threatening to outbid it by offering athletes higher pay, the WNBA's union has decided to use its strong position to renegotiate a contract for better pay and benefits.
Saudi Arabia's plan to start its own international basketball league is the latest sign of the game's drift into a world in which money, held by increasingly anonymous elites, has distanced sport from fans and communities.
A fall in NBA viewership has led pundits to ask whether the problem is that the league is too woke or shoots too many three-pointers. There is little evidence that these factors are to blame, but that hasn't stopped conservatives from stoking a culture war.
Influencers like Jake Paul have risen to prominence by fighting athletes who want an alternative to exploitative bodies like the UFC. His pro-Trumpism and call for a union to protect the rights of fighters represent the contradictions within combat sports.
The NBA's one-and-done rule stops players from entering the league straight from high school. This pushes top players into the NCAA, which makes billions off them, and reduces the window in which athletes, whose careers are often cut short, can earn.
Professional fighters are rarely paid for participating in competitions, and the average income of athletes working with promoters like the UFC is only $45,000. Now Jiu Jitsu fighters are pushing back against low pay, giving the industry a wake-up call.
The eighth yearly anthology of stories from the thrice-yearly Bath Flash Fiction Awards. 134 fantastically varied flash fictions of 300 words or under. Dip in to be surprised, astonished and inspir...
It's our anniversary and also my birthday and she is in the pine needles on her hands and knees. She scrapes up poop and clears her throat, her shoes only halfway on. "I will not let them fuck me," she says. The house is a product of the modern American security state.
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