The Power Games - the real state of global sport
Power Games by Earl CochranePower Games examines the structures, incentives, and power dynamics behind sport. It explains how the systems operate and then goes far deeper, to reveal real-world consequences, trade-offs, and incentives that shape the games off the field/court/rink...
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Sport is Not Soft Power - It's More Like Hard Leverage Delivered Softly
A note on where this argument comes from: I played a role in the successful bid that brought the 2026 FIFA World Cup to North America, and I was deeply involved on the ground at the 2022 World Cup in Doha. I have seen from the inside how sp...
Joining a Church vs. Buying a Product
Montreal feels different during a playoff run. The Canadiens won the other night to take a 2-1 series lead over Buffalo, and within minutes of that win, the streets looked nothing like a ‘traditional’ hockey celebration (certainly not the t...
The Commission Got the Diagnosis Right. Now How Do We Heal the Patient?
The Future of Sport in Canada Commission released its final report last week — March 24, 2026. I have been building toward this argument for months across several Power Games essays, the Jumpstart youth sport analysis, a LinkedIn post last...
How Japan Built Their Football Model
Full disclosure. Tom Byer, the founder of Football Starts at Home is a friend. We were introduced through our mutual friend, Paul Mariner. And I am so happy he did. Through that friendship I have gotten to know Tom far better and fully unde...
When The Rule Book & Regulations Win, Sometimes The Sport Loses
A quick note before my dive into culture and contagion continues — that's coming in the next few days. But this week's developments out of CAF warranted a quickish response.
Two months after the AFCON final, CAF’s Appeal Board has s...
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CEO and founder of Canada’s first private sport diplomacy advisory firm, Kinova Solutions, designed to prove that democratic values and pluralist communities produce better outcomes through global sport than authoritarian alternatives.
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