This week, Josh Levin told the story of the “air ball” chant on a special episode of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. You can listen to the audio ...

Viewers tuning in to Pixar’s animated movie Turning Red may wind up wondering exactly what the characters are saying during two key sequences where they begin to chant in Cantonese. In one scene in ...

The Mexican men's national team can make a case that it is the most popular soccer team in two countries. So it is jarring to consider that fan allegiance to a controversial stadium tradition could ...

Manor Solomon has become a star player for Leeds United during their push for promotion back to the Premier League — but a chant about the Israel international has led to concerns, repeated statements ...

Mexico's men's national soccer team will be forced to play two more World Cup qualifiers in empty stadiums after its fans continued yelling an anti-gay slur at matches in October. FIFA, soccer's ...

San Diego FC’s first-ever home match was marred Saturday night by the repeated use of homophobic language by fans, leading the club’s head coach and sporting director to speak out after the match to ...

The Minnesota Vikings are in Philadelphia for their NFC Championship game against the Eagles on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field, and as expected, Vikings' fans have made the trip as well -- and with ...

In 2018, when Yon De Luisa took over as president of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF), soccer’s governing body in a country where soccer is king, the extent of the federation’s effort to root out ...

Timothy S. McDonnell, director of music ministries at the Institute of Sacred Music, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington, conducts an Oct. 10 Gregorian ...

San Diego FC intends to take steps to discourage its fans from engaging in the anti-gay that marred the Major League Soccer expansion club's inaugural home match last weekend. The club again condemned ...

On 10 July 2016, Facebook user Wesley Scott Alexander posted a video supposedly documenting Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters chanting a demanding "dead cops" three days after a shooting in Dallas ...