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Community Engagement and Events
GSM Live (video): Detoxifying Masculinity in Sport
The history of hypermasculinity in sport doesn't start and stop with the athlete. It's a system perpetuated from the top to the bottom, but in today's arenas, younger generations may be helping to change the landscape and detoxify toxic masculinity in sport through an openness of seeking help for mental health to "non-traditional" styles of fashion pushing the boundaries of the binary.
Global Sport Institute and Zócalo Public Square Insights: How Have Women's Sports Changed Since Title IX? (Video)
Global Sport Matters Live is a virtual conversation series presented by Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University and Global Sport Matters. Diverse thought leaders and experts will come together virtually to give their perspective on the most relevant issues impacting sport.
GSM Live (video): Broke, Bust, Bankrupt: Avoiding Financial Loss in the Post-Sport Journey
Rising to the top of your game comes with perks: money, access, and opportunities galore. For a lot of athletes, the amount of wealth given in contracts can be great, but also overwhelming, and may even lead to financial despair when the well dries up, sometimes unexpectedly.
GSM Live (video): Looking Forward - A Renaissance for American Baseball
From youth leagues to the professional ranks, baseball’s once vibrant connection to Black America has eroded. Recently, the sport has increased its efforts to rebuild that relationship. But many challenges remain, including a pay-for-play youth system that leaves too many Black children behind, a neglected talent pipeline that has lost Black athletes to other sports, and narrow, barrier-strewn pathway to Major League Baseball managerial positions for qualified candidates of Color.
GSM Live (video): The Journey of Women in Basketball
On this Global Sport Matters Live show, host Dr. Nicole LaVoi, Director of the Tucker Center for Girls & Women at the University of Minnesota, explored the journey of basketball’s women from different perspectives. From the front office, as coaches, players, media and beyond, panelists discussed the challenges and successes for the sport along the way, and what they see for its future.
Toward A Different Kind of Winning: Nurturing Black Creativity and Masculinity
Toward A Different Kind of Winning: Nurturing Black Creativity and Masculinity engaged the importance of articulating and making legible the many languages and stories that carry us through our most painful and joyful moments, our defeats and victories. It was our luck to experience one of the many fields of strength and care that emerge when Black creativity and masculinity are nurtured together, in story and language, in friendship and in being alongside, through the thick and the thin, toward something that outlasts winning.
GSM Live (video): Hits & Misses in Sports Leadership
On this Global Sport Matters Live Show, Global Sport Institute leadership joined sports journalists Greg Moore and Shalise Manza Young, as well as sports lawyer and former commissioner of the United Football League Michael Huyghue to discuss the triumphs and failures of a slowly diversifying sports leadership in recent years, and how the beliefs of fans will impact leagues and teams in the year to come.
'Newest dark horse in the climate game?' Sport & Sustainability panel
Global Sport Institute and Global Futures Laboratory presented a panel of academic and sports industry leaders converging at the intersection of sp
Sun Devil Athletics Venture Challenge
Sun Devil Athletics, Global Sport Institute, and J.