Ben Carrington is professor of sociology at the University of Southern California
July 2021
Once England had Tebbit’s cricket test – now it’s the penalty kick test
Ben Carrington
The national team are pushing back against racist vitriol as never before. The rest of us must back them up, says sociologist Ben Carrington
September 2018
Is Colin Kaepernick’s Nike deal activism – or just capitalism?
Ben Carrington and Jules Boykoff
The first NFL player to take a knee may need to go further and take a stand against the injustices of capitalism itself, say academics Ben Carrington and Jules Boykoff
January 2018
Sportblog
Winter Olympics 2018: the latest battleground between athletes and Trump?
The Winter Games are rarely a hotbed of political intrigue. But these are strange times – and athletes want to make their voices heard
