North One Television and its subsidiary ISC concluded a long term agreement with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) for the World Rally Championship.
Gator Sports Marketing, a division of IMG College that markets the media rights for University of Florida athletics on behalf of FOX-owned Sun Sports, appointed Cathy Weeden its new general manager.
Teams from the Middle East’s two Formula One motor racing circuits, Abu Dhabi Mortorsports Management (ADMM) and Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), agreed a joint partnership.
MLS Deputy Commisssioner Ivan Gazidis is to become chief executive of English Premier League club Arsenal.
France is to push ahead with plans for a European “super regulator” for sport at a EU meeting this week, despite a growing chorus of complaint led by Britain.
HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein announced the start of the Generations For Peace Camp 08, with youth leaders from 16 nations attending a ten-day intense certification programme.
International sport business consultancy, Vero, announced three new client wins - the International Paralympic Committee, Rio 2016 and Beyond Sport.
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) plans to sell back its 50 percent stake in the site of the Wimbledon championships to The All England Club (AELTC).
Rugby Union’s over-reliance on brewing and financial services sponsors, were among several topics discussed at the final day of the inaugural Rugby Expo conference.
Leaders in Football, the international business summit for senior decision makers in the football world, extended its partnership with Chelsea football club for 2009.
Organisers of the Legacy Lives 2009 event are in talks to secure a new host city, event partner and dates for the conference.
Leading climate change authority, Nick Stern, has joined the England Football Association’s World Cup 2018 bid as a vice-president to advise on the possible carbon footprint.
Weber Shandwick, has assembled an exciting panel from Government, business, academia and media for next week’s London launch of its dedicated new sports practice, WS Sport.
BrandRapport, the specialist sponsorship and associative marketing agency, has acquired the London and Manchester based sponsorship consultancy Arena International.
International sports media company, MP & Silva (MPS) is to expand its global presence by opening a new office in Dubai.
The Infront Sports & Media agency is to rebrand motor sports promoter, FGSport, as Infront Motor Sports.
England cricket chiefs are to carry out a review of the $20 million Stanford Super Series, according to BBC Sport.
China’s largest independent advertising and branded content group, Dynamic Marketing Group (DMG), has been appointed by NBA China to create its first brand campaign.
The UK’s longest-serving Sports Minister and current World Cup Ambassador, Richard Caborn MP, will address the Sports Event Management 2008 conference in London on November 12, 2008.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is set for the re-launch of the AFC Champions League by the end of 2008, following a seminar for General Managers of Asian football.
The FIA has challenged Ferrari to come up with their own cost-cutting measures after the Formula One team threatened to withdraw from the sport if plans to introduce standard engines go ahead.
Manufacturers Ferrari and Toyota warned they could quit Formula One if the sport's governing body continues with its plans to reduce costs, according to UK press reports.
The International Evaluation Commission will visit the four Candidate Cities bidding for the 2016 Olympic Games in April and May of 2009.
Mr N Ramachandran has been appointed as the first Indian President of the World Squash Federation (WSF).
Colin Moynihan has been re-elected as chairman of the British Olympic Association.
Michael Squires, has become chairman of specialist search and recruitment consultancy, Sports Recruitment International.
Poland risks suspension by FIFA from all football competitions, and the loss of co-hosting rights for Euro 2012, unless it reinstates the country's Football Association by 11am UK today.
British Cycling’s head coach, Shane Sutton, told the paper that he is preparing to relinquish his coaching duties to devote more time to setting up the professional road team.
A shortlist of nominees for each award category will be unveiled in late January with winners to be announced at the Awards ceremony on April 30, 2009 in front of 1,400 industry representatives.
The association was set up by the 10 Formula One teams to work closely with governing body the International Automobile Federation (FIA) to help improve the sport.
Barra will replace Vicente Añó, who will still be linked to the project as an external consultant.
Wong will report directly to Manu Sawhney, managing director, ESPN STAR Sports, who said: “Wong brings a wealth of experience and business insights to the role.
England will be appointed host nation, despite the England and Wales Cricket Board's campaign to suspend Zimbabwe's ICC membership.
The FIM said that as of 2011, the 250cc class will be replaced with a new 600 category that will feature 4-stroke engines limited to 600cc and a maximum of 4 cylinders.
Teams will now pay €309,000 (£240,000) to compete in 2009, which includes a small increase to cover inflation.
On Wednesday, the IOC suspended Iraq over "political interference" in its national Olympic Committee, which was sacked last month and replaced by a new body headed by Sports Minister Jassem Jaafar.
The decision follows a long-running dispute between the two bodies which stems from whether race organisers, including the Amaury Sport Organisation - which organises the Tour de France, or the sport'
Ecclestone said: "It will be difficult for him to act as FIA president if the people who said before they don't want to meet him maintain that.
Johnson said: “My first impression is that a great deal of fantastic work has already been done but we have to ensure that we maximise the yield for London.
New IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset assumes the reigns as Chairman of Rugby World Cup Limited.
Speaking to British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, he defended his right to privacy, and maintained that his private life did not interfere with his ability to do his job.
In a statement at the Bahrain Grand Prix, the FIA said: "The full membership of the FIA will be invited to attend the meeting at which the widespread publicity following an apparently illegal invasion
Patel has been approached to succeed Australia’s Malcolm Speed, who will step down in June, after seven years in office.
Waldron called for the reintroduction of new teams in Perth, and possibly Adelaide and said the NRL should follow the AFL’s strategy of targeting new markets.
In an attempt to restrict the sport's spiralling costs FIA president Max Mosley has written to all the competing teams regarding the planned cost reduction.
The International Tennis Federation, the ATP, the WTA and the organisers of the Grand Slams appointed former British police officers Jeffrey Rees and Ben Gunn to lead the review, which will work along
Organisers of the Tri-Nations are said to be considering the future shape of the competition as the present TV deal, with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp expires at the end of the 2010 season.
Sportscotland was due to be scrapped under a cull of quangos promised by the Scottish National Party when it took power in May.
"This is something we have to address," Rogge said. "The purpose of the IOC is to have a common approach to that with all international sports federations and the national Olympic committees.
Both cricket and sport climbing were awarded "provisional recognition" status for their work with youths.
The event will now include a sprint race on turf over over 6 furlongs, a new mile race for two-year-old fillies and a mile and a half dirt race – the longest of the meeting – called the Marathon.
They claim BSkyB is too strong to be defeated particularly in the acquisition of sports and film rights.
The Initiative aims to guarantee long term partnerships, sustainable and autonomous National Governing Bodies and, as a result, a strong sporting legacy in the UK.
G-14 General Manager Thomas Kurth said that the decision by UEFA's Executive Committee has shown UEFA’s ‘ willingness to listen to the clubs and leagues’.
Under the deal, the RFU will give the Premiership clubs £110 million in exchange for more time with elite players ahead of Test matches.
Thomas was formerly a partner at sports marketing company Spring Worldwide.
The IRB Council re-elected former England captain Bill Beaumont for a second term as IRB Vice Chairman, while a new Executive Committee was also elected.
Traditionally, the BOA, who receive no direct government or lottery funding, have appealed to British business to assist with the funding of Team GB.
At its constitutive meeting, chaired by FIFA Vice-President and UEFA President Michel Platini, the committee discussed club ownership and licensing in great depth.
Peyton Manning ranked as the top NFL athlete at No. 13, while David Beckham comes in at No. 17. Katie Bayne, Senior VP at Coca-Cola, is the highest-ranked woman on the list at No. 67.
The Daily Telegraph said that profits in Alpha D2, the UK company in which CVC has a majority stake, have slumped from $312.7m due to ‘debt payments totaling $220m to service the $2.5bn secured by C
The WISPA Premiere Series is not related to a prize fund, nor is it a new type of tournament - but ‘simply a new initiative recognising the opportunity to assist new events both in their execution a
Jean-Paul Pierrat follows hot on the heels of Jean-Claude Killy who quit two months ago from the role of chairman.
The announcement will follow the meeting of the Presidential Council, headed by Putin, which will also involve key ministers and investors.
The two sides have been at loggerheads after the European Tour confirmed events on its calendar in India and South Korea.
Lord Sebastian Coe had been seeking election to one of four vacancies during the IAAF Congress in Osaka.
Britain’s Lord Sebastian Coe is one of the candidates bidding to become a vice-president of the IAAF at the federation’s congress in Osaka.
It is unclear at this stage whether there will be a US Grand Prix in 2008, at another venue, or if the event will simply be replaced in the calendar.
The IOC and FIFA said the White Paper is “structured in full contradiction with the actual architecture of the Olympic movement, ignoring in particular the regulatory competences of the Internationa
EU Sports Commissioner Jan Figel is due to release his proposals which are expected to include ideas for combating doping and racism.
There is a growing sense among IOC members and those involved in the administration of the IOC that, whilst a truly worthy winner, Sochi still has an enormous amount of work to do in order to deliver
They include former vice president and chief marketing officer Roger R VanDerSnick becoming senior vice president, marketing and business operations and W Grant Lynch, former ISC VP and president of T
"When Mr Valcke first came to FIFA we had equity in the red," said FIFA president Blatter at a press conference in Zurich, reported by Reuters.
According to Reuters reports, Caborn will meet with English Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, English FA chairman Geoff Thompson and Football League chairman Lord Mawhinney to discuss
The move has been led by an explosion in the popularity of dance activities in Italy, driven in part by RAI’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ programme, which was recently won by Italy's former world c
The IAAF Congress will meet in Osaka on the August 2007 22 and 23, a few days prior to the opening of the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in the city (25 Aug to 2 Sep), in order to give the
Andy MacPhail is no stranger to the sport.
PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf has earmarked some of the money to upgrade Pakistan’s Test venues ahead of Pakistan’s hosting of the 2008 Champions Trophy and 14 matches of the 2011 World Cup.
According to the BBC website, Livingstone said the designer should not be paid for the "catastrophic mistake". "Who would go into a firm like that again and ask them to do that work.
Delegates representing each of Fifa's 208 member nations unanimously backed Blatter, who originally succeeded Joao Havelange in 1998.
The vote resulted in 78.5 per cent of the 915 votes cast in favour of the changes to the FA’s structure which include:
The G14 represents 18 European clubs and has come up against FIFA in its backing for court cases brought by clubs asking for compensation for players injured whilst on international duty.
According to bbc.co.uk, the agreement, which has still to be signed, was thrashed out during a meeting at Twickenham this weekend, involving Derek McGrath, chief executive of European Rugby Cup, McGra
G14 general manager Thomas Kurth said, “we hope to expand to double our membership by the end of the year," speaking after the group’s board meeting in Glasgow on Thursday.
The Board approved a number of recommendations to increase VANOC’s overall public transparency and accountability.
In an interview with the French daily sports newspaper L'Equipe, Rogge said the games start in 2010 with a summer games, followed by a winter games in 2012.
FFA chairman Frank Lowy, announced that, after a rigorous process, he and the board of FFA had identified “the best possible combination” to oversee the strategic direction of football for the nex
Following a meeting of the Rugby World Cup Board it was announced that changes will be made to the tournament’s qualification process for RWC 2011 onwards and that the number of automatic qualifiers
The deal makes viagogo an official partner of Blackburn Rovers FC. Its primary role is to provide the club a new sales channel to increase their match-day hospitality package sales.
Negotiations have been taking place to try and head off the planned boycott of the tournament by French and English clubs over a dispute around shares in the European Rugby Cup (ERC) and the fact that
The European Commission is set to publish a white paper setting out a new framework for sport, and ministers, led by Mr Caborn, are pushing to include measures that could change the way sport is gover
Charlton was relegated from the Premier League yesterday, but a consortium, previously thought to have been interested in acquiring Liverpool, is lining up a takeover bid.
With the era of tobacco sponsorship now over and the number of riders on the starting grid standing at just 19, fears have been expressed as to the future of the series.
The top French and English clubs have pulled out of the Heineken Cup over a dispute around shares in the European Rugby Cup (ERC) and the fact that the English Premiership clubs have not been given a
Gawain Briars, Chief Executive of the PSA, struck the joint deal with Ziad Al-Turki, Vice-President of the ATCO Group, and Paul Walters, founder of the internationalSPORTgroup.
In this role, PwC will provide financial advisory services in areas of budgeting, financial planning, and internal-control to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and to China’s Paralympics, BOCOG, the Ch
As part of this broad partnership, the NBA and FIBA will work with BOCOG on the presentation of basketball in the Wukesong Basketball Arena and consultation on other sports event presentations.
Comperio already has offices in Europe, North America and India, and this latest move signals the company’s decision to capitalise on the growing demand for its services in the Far East.
In a statement the LNR and Premier Rugby said, "the representatives of Premier Rugby and LNR (...) noted an unanimous agreement on matters of common interest and decided to materialise this agreement
