SportsWorks Publications

Not every stakeholder will read a framework document or sit through a governance workshop. SportsWorks publications exist to carry the same structural logic into forms that supporters, players, journalists, and non-specialist decision-makers can use.

Flagship titles

• Unified Marginal Gains (UMG) – a performance and stability book for athletes, coaches, and parents.
• American Soccer Cartel – a political economy study of US soccer ownership and league structure.
• DASH I and DASH II white papers – the research versions of the sportswashing and sportshandling frameworks.

These publications do not replace governance work. They support it by giving people a vocabulary and mental model for what they are seeing.

How organisations use these publications

• Clubs and federations use Unified Marginal Gains to talk about stability and readiness with staff and players while Dashframe is applied at board level.
• Supporters’ trusts and journalists use American Soccer Cartel and the DASH papers to explain structural issues without diluting them into pure opinion.
• Coaches and parents use UMG long before their clubs ever need formal governance work, so that everyday routines are less fragile when bigger changes come.

SportsWorks sits between formal governance tools and the lived reality of sport. The publications are how that middle ground is made usable for people who will never read a technical framework.