#Player Welfare

Articles (8)

• 🇺🇸 NFL Confidential: Why 18-Game Regular Season Remains a Hard Sell for Players and Coaches — 05/04/2026 [USA]

  NFL owners pushed for an extra game to be added to the regular-season slate at this week's annual meeting. But we spoke with people around the league on why that might not be a great idea.

  Related: #NFL Expansion
• 🇬🇧 Sale warn England ‘superhuman’ Tom Curry needs time off to prolong career — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <ul><li><p>Sanderson suggests player should miss summer tour</p></li><li><p>Back-rower sustained calf injury during Six Nations</p></li></ul><p>Alex Sanderson has warned that Tom Curry’s physical play...

  Related: #Rugby Management
• 🇬🇧 Gavaskar claims Hundred signing 'contributing to Indian casualties' — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar says Sunrisers Leeds’ signing of Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed “indirectly contributes to the deaths of Indian soldiers and civilians”.

  Related: #Cricket Criticism
• 🇺🇸 Bunting 'really hurt' by fan boos as whistling 'spoils' darts again in Germany — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Stephen Bunting says he was left "really hurt" after he was met by boos at the Elten Safety Shoes European Darts Trophy.

  Related: #Fan Behavior
• 🇬🇧 My shirt was soaked in blood - but I was told to get back on the rugby pitch — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Ross Coombs has been diagnosed with early onset dementia and feels himself "gradually declining", but says there is "no support".

  Related: #Sports Safety
• 🇺🇸 VAR to review second yellows and corners as timewasting clamped down on — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  VAR's powers have been extended by football's lawmakers.

  Related: #VAR in football, #Timewasting, #Rules of Football, #Refereeing
• 🇬🇧 'Bigger does not mean better' - why more matches is not for good of the game — 20/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  In his BBC Sport column, ex-Premier League boss Tony Pulis explains why more matches in a shorter space of time might mean more injuries, and why the expansion of tournaments does not help players or ...

  Related: #Tournament Expansion, #Competition Quality, #Football Management
• 🇺🇸 Five sets for women? More entertainment? - where next for 'Glastonbury of tennis'? — 03/02/2026 [USA]

  Once dubbed the 'Happy Slam' by Roger Federer, the innovative Australian Open has gone from strength to strength - but there have been signs of discontent.

  Related: #Sports Innovation, #Gender Equality