CCEP × SPORTSCRIT™ LA28 RESEARCH & PRAXIS COMMONS
We Are Studying LA28 Before the Games Become History.
Sport is never just about the scoreboard. The Commons is a public-facing collection of research, resources, questions, media, and emerging scholarship exploring the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Created by student scholars in the SportsCrit™ Leadership Collective in collaboration with the California Center for Ethics and Policy (CCEP) at Cal Poly Pomona, our researchers ask questions about power, policy, public money, health and community care, disability justice and accessibility, media and storytelling, athlete voice, infrastructure, civic participation, and Olympic and Paralympic legacy.
The Games haven’t started yet.
The legacy already has.
Watch · SportsCrit™ Lab Season Opener
Why LA28? Watching the Games Before the Torch Arrives
FOUR RESEARCH & PRAXIS TEAMS
Every Team Starts With a Question
Research isn’t simply collecting information. It is learning to ask better questions, evaluate evidence, recognize what remains uncertain, and understand how an issue can look different depending on your position.
01 · Research & Policy
Who decides? Who pays? Who benefits? Who is accountable?
02 · Health Equity & Community Care
Who is cared for? Under what conditions? Who experiences harm, exclusion, or extraction?
03 · Paralympic Justice & Advocacy
Who has access? Who participates in defining accessibility? What would a meaningful Paralympic legacy look like?
04 · Digital Humanities & Public Scholarship
How do we document, preserve, interpret, and communicate what we learn?
STUDENT-AUTHORED · PUBLIC-FACING
Civic Education Guides
Each team translates its research into a guide for the community: people, places, power, and possibilities — what to know, what to question, and how to act.
Civic Power & VotingSport Has Power. So Do You.
Research & PolicyPower, Policy & Pomona
Health Equity & Community CarePreserving P-Town’s Economic & Cultural Wellbeing
Paralympic Justice & AdvocacyAccess Beyond the Arena
Four guides. Written by students, for the community. Tap a cover to view it full size.
CIVIC POWER & VOTING
Sport Has Power. So Do You.
What responsibility do sports institutions have to the communities that make them powerful?
SportsCrit™ × CCEP
RESEARCH & POLICY
Power, Policy & Pomona
What environmental and community impacts could LA28 have — and who decides how to address them?
By Nala Williams & Anthony Ervin
HEALTH EQUITY & COMMUNITY CARE
Preserving P-Town’s Economic & Cultural Wellbeing
Can a global sporting event strengthen community wellbeing without leaving residents behind?
By Elijah Herbert, Natali Sesma & Elizabeth Scroggins
PARALYMPIC JUSTICE & ADVOCACY
Access Beyond the Arena
What does genuine access look like before, during, and after the Games in Pomona?
By Danita Astudillo, Abbra Daniell, Nicholas Sammons & Kade Johnson
THE METHOD
Explore. Question. Follow the Evidence.
Some posts document what we know. Others identify what we still need to know. That’s intentional.
Every finding is read through a SportsCrit™ tenet — who benefits, who bears the cost, and what to investigate next.
Who produced this information?
Whose perspective is represented?
Whose perspective might be missing?
What evidence supports the claim?
Who holds power?
Who experiences the consequences?
What should we continue investigating?
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Tools From the Lab
Frameworks our scholars use to read sport media critically — and to remix the story.
SportsCrit™ Critical Framing Analysis
SportsCrit™ Media Literacy Learning Model
Readings & Media Map · KIN 4450
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
California Center for Ethics and Policy (CCEP), Cal Poly Pomona
Official Cal Poly Pomona internship site
Weglyn Student-Faculty Research Fellowship — Framing the Olympic City
Kinesiology & Health Promotion courses KIN 4430 & KIN 4450
YOUR TURN
What Should We Be Asking?
Researchers should not be the only people asking questions. You do not need to be an expert — a good research question can begin with curiosity, concern, experience, or simply: “I wonder…”
Our scholars will review the questions shared as we develop our research agenda for Spring 2027 and beyond.
Posts are for civic engagement and research inspiration. Posting does not mean you are participating in a research study, and posts are not treated as research data without appropriate research and consent procedures.