New Research Alert! "The Rise of Private Club and Travel Teams in the U.S.: Generational Changes in Youth Sports Participation and Associations with Socioeconomic Statuses and Family and Community Sport Cultures" by Chris Knoester and Chris Bjork journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "Deliberative Spaces of Elite Athlete Representation in Transnational Sport Governance" by Lisa A Kihl, Daryl Adair, Annette Greenhow, and Lisa Gowthorp journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "The Grass Ceiling: An Investigation into What Drives Gender Exclusion in Golf" by Deborah M. Gray, Sean P. Goffnett, and Richard Divine journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "What Can the Running Body Do? The Running Machine's Affective Possibilities and the Limits of Language" by Jean Ketterling and Bridgette Desjardins journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The December 2025 volume is out now! journals.sagepub.com/toc/JSS/curr...

New Research Alert! "Many Ways to Lead: A Discourse Analysis of Sport as an Influencer for Climate Action" by Emma M. McMain, Alex C. Gang, and Eunah Jo journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "Athletic Fat and Disidentification: Reading Gender, Sport/Exercise, and Fatness on YouTube" by Yeomi Choi journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! "Challenges to Olympic Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of the International Wushu Federation’s Strategies in Aligning With International Olympic Committee Program Reforms" by Qing-song Han, Inge Derom, Marc Theeboom, Xi Jiang, and Dong Zhu. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! "Maradonna and Public Diplomacy" by Gabriel Cătălin Gherasim journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "The Queen's Gambit: Race, Gender, and Feminist Reclamation of Athletic Histories" by Janelle Joseph, Ornella Nzindukiyimana, Shireen Ahmed, and Sarah Barnes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The October 2025 volume is out now! journals.sagepub.com/toc/JSS/curr...

In the final piece reflecting on Cole's editorial legacy, Grant Farred refers to them as a "curator," writing that, "The editorial world will be poorer without their understated but intellectually voracious disposition." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Dafna Kaufman writes about Cole's contributions to scholarship on women's sport: "Following Cole, we ought to regard women's sports and the branding of women's sports culture not as a site of imminent liberation, but as a critical space...

About past JSSI editor Cole, Holly Thorpe writes, "the highly original and critical questions Cole has been asking for more than three decades now, and the approaches used to articulate the complex workings of power in sport, have significantly shaped our field" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In "Visions of Field," Pirkko Markula writes that past JSSI editor CL Cole "...opened up the landscape of sport sociology to critically and theoretically consider what counts as the study of sport" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The August 2025 volume features tribute to longtime previous JSSI editor CL Cole. In their essay, Hartmann and Andrews write, "Among the characteristics that marked Cole's editorship was the unerring ability to identify work, empirical or theoretical, which articulated the complexities...

New Research Alert! "Football is Politics: Analyzing Public Emotions in Neymar Jr.'s Case and PEC das Praias Through the Instagram Accounts of Folha de S.Paulo and O Globo Newspapers" by Caroline Patatt and Jéssica Sandes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! “Football Still Puts Food on My Table”: Exploring the Positive Narratives of Former Amateur and Semi-Professional Footballers in Nigeria by Ikechukwu Ejekwumadu journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! "Sustainability of Policies Addressing Harassment and Abuse in Children's Sports: A Descriptive and Cross-National Account of Five European Countries" by Monica Shiakou et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "Fan Attitude Toward Athlete Activism for Black Lives Matter," by Tamara Seufert, Yanxiang Yang, Iris Perey, and Joerg Koenigstorfer journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The August 2025 volume is out now! journals.sagepub.com/toc/jssa/49/4

Special Issue: Call for Proposals We are excited to announce a new Special Issue in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues on post-qualitative inquiry!

JSSI goals include: "pioneering creative forms of content and alternative modes of intellectual exchange and construction of knowledge and scholarship related to sport and its significance in global social life" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

JSSI goals include: "facilitating engagement with nonsport scholars and intellectuals who are increasingly aware of and interested in sport as a social force" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

JSSI goals include: "cultivating an ever-more diverse and international intellectual community for sport scholarship, in terms of contributors, content, and readership" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"The core of JSSI is empirically grounded, methodologically rigorous, and theoretically sophisticated scholarship on social issues in and around sport and on sport's role in culture, politics, and society beyond the boundaries of athletic competition." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! "Sustainable Symptoms: Olympism, Air Transportation, and Fetishistic Disavowal," by Chris McMillan journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! "The Global Security Field of Sports and How the World Health Organization Shapes Mega-Events in a (Post-)Pandemic World," by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! "Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Financial Sustainability of Sports Organizations," by Tzu-Chia Chen journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "The Modernization of Monitorization: Technological Adaptation and Innovation as Mechanisms for College Athlete Surveillance," by Chris Corr, Sarah Stokowski, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Amanda L. Paule-Koba, and Richard M. Southall journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Alert! "What is Informal Sport? Negotiating Contemporary Sporting Forms," by Justen O'Connor, Ruth Jeanes, Jonathan Magee, Ramón Spaaij, Dawn Penney, and Satoshi Miyashita journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! ""It Comes Down to Strength and Stamina": Video Assistant Referee and the Reproduction of Masculine Performance in Football," by Sigbjørn Skirbekk, Hilde Berit Moen, and Anne Tjønndal journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! ""Muslims are Leaving Football, They Think 'What is the Point?" A Qualitative Study on Islamophobia in Grassroots Football in England and Wales," by Imran Awan and Irene Zempi journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Research Alert! ""Us vs Them": Understanding Chinese Badminton Sportsmen's Racial Consciousness in International Competitions," by Ling Tung Tsang journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The June double issue is now published! journals.sagepub.com/toc/JSS/curr... Read a welcome from new editor Dr. Doug Hartmann, a reflection on the history of the journal from Dr. Lawrence Wenner, and 8 new empirical articles.