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Inside the wild world of college cheerleading

Class, community and capitalism — New Netflix series Cheer is filled with high stakes stunts and drama – but it can also teach us a lot about America’s class problem.

  • Outdoors
  • Ruby Lott-Lavigna

A tribute to New York’s DIY basketball scene

Take your shot — Photographer Larry Racioppo spent the ’90s capturing the city’s makeshift streetball courts: ’the closer I looked, the more interesting they became. Many are really a form of folk art.’

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

All hail Coleen Rooney, the hero we need right now

Save us — The slog of Brexit is too much to bear. A literary mystery with explosive consequences is the perfect tonic for these dark times – and we scarcely deserve Rooney’s work.

  • Opinion
  • Dawn Foster

Huck: The Utopia Issue

Out now! — Our new issue’s about bolder, brighter worlds – built by people sick of the status quo.

  • Culture
  • Huck

The quiet resistance of NFL Star Marshawn Lynch

Silence is power — Lynch: A History is a new documentary which examines race, masculinity, media and protest at the turn of the millennium.

  • Film
  • Miss Rosen

Seven women reflect on their journeys in football

A global game — For the 2019 Women’s World Cup, photography project Goal Click asked women to share what the game means to them. Here, we share some of their responses – which features grassroots players and international stars.

  • Outdoors
  • Huck

‘Women have only one way to survive: learning to fight’

Boxing in DRC — For decades, rape and other forms of sexual violence have become endemic in the DRC. In a new portrait series, photographer Alessandro Grassani captures the women who are finding strength through boxing.

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

The Caster Semenya ruling is a disgrace on the sporting world

Rooted in misogynoir — The athlete’s case proves that, in sport, all women have to adhere to the blueprint laid forth by the bodies of white European cisgender women.

  • Opinion
  • Danielle Dash

Dance, sport and the unspoken trauma of retirement

Exit stage right — Dancers and athletes can dedicate their entire life to their career, for it then to be cut short by the time they turn 30. This point of retirement – or ‘transition’ – can present a variety of issues spanning the physical, financial and psychological.

  • Outdoors
  • Rachael Healy

Chessboxing: the new craze where brain meets brawn

Season’s beatings — We enter the ring for a night of chessboxing: a curious combination of four-minute speed chess and three-minute boxing.

  • Outdoors
  • Tom Hale

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