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Global Sport Institute CEO Ken Shropshire says the end of Cold War scuttled the longtime U.S. vs. Soviet Union narrative, and now coverage of the Games depends on storytelling about the athletes to create dramatic interest in viewers.

Three current students are among 20 Sun Devil athletes who will be competing for gold in a variety of sports at the Tokyo Games.

At the beginning of the season, no one could have predicted the Suns’ amazing run — not even Daniel McIntosh, a senior lecturer with the W. P. Carey School of Business who worked seven years with the NBA, tracking data protocols and developing a cutting-edge methodology for 15 different teams. ASU News spoke with McIntosh about the Suns' spectacular season and why they’re playing so well from a statistical point of view.

Lois Brown, the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, will be among several community leaders to be honored at an Arizona Diamondbacks pregame ceremony on Juneteenth.

An ASU clinical assistant professor and her event management students helped solicit, sign up and train volunteers for an annual national golf tournament for people with disabilities. Without their involvement, the event would not have been possible, said Jason Faircloth, founder of the U.S. Disabled Golf Association.

Although summer has just begun and we still can’t travel around the world due to the pandemic, that doesn’t mean that we can’t discover and learn about the cultural diversity of our planet. Through the lenses of these six interdisciplinary courses offered for the fall 2021 semester in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, students will have the opportunity to learn from the history of early Rome, to explore fascinating cases of cultural diversity and investigate race in a transnational framework.