Building Women’s (American) Flag Football
Flag football is building towards inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Games after being a part of the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama in 2022 and Chengdu, China in 2025. The connection between American flag football and French athletes was on display as the Women’s Team France took fourth place in the September 2025 IFAF European Continental Championship. Excitement around the September 25-27, 2025 tournament was a good indication of the growth of women’s flag football.
From Wembanyama to the World Stage: French Basketball and the New Era of Trans-Atlantic Sports Diplomacy
In October 2023, all eyes were on the San Antonio Spurs as its number one pick, and the NBA’s newest phenomenon, 7-foot-4 Frenchman, Victor Wembanyama made his professional debut. This backgrounder explores the way that basketball has become a dynamic vehicle for the Franco-American connection through player development, media spectacle, and also mutual influence.
View from France: Baseball, A Contrary History – Part 3
This brief history of baseball in France and how the French view–or rather, how some French view(ed) the national American pastime as reflected in the French media, the only reliable record across all 130 years of this history–is in three parts. Part Three illustrates how the game transformed in the 1980s and is currently perceived, received, and played.
View from France: Baseball, A Contrary History – Part 2
This brief history of baseball in France and how the French view–or rather, how some French view(ed) the national American pastime as reflected in the French media, the only reliable record across all 130 years of this history–is in three parts. Part Two details its Interwar and immediate post-1945 eras.
View from France: Baseball, A Contrary History – Part 1
This brief history of baseball in France and how the French view–or rather, how some French view(ed) the national American pastime as reflected in the French media, the only reliable record across all 130 years of this history–is in three parts. This first part lays out the origin story for how baseball traversed the Atlantic and its early roots in the héxagone.
American Football in France
Often hidden from sight, American football has long served as a conduit between French and Americans on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sport Diplomacy: So what is it?
Sport Diplomacy is how we explain the intersection of the diplomatic realm with the sporting one and the subsequent formation of evolving networks