Representatives from the Sports Rights Owners Coalition met with key EU decision-makers to call for much stronger protection of the integrity of sport and a fair financial return from sports betting.
Internet betting exchange, Betfair, agreed a new five year deal to sponsor the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.
For sport India has to be the last huge market and possibly the biggest opportunity on the planet today.
The headlines are overwhelming:
The “Gillette – EA SPORTS Champions of Gaming Tournament” will officially launch in late October 2008 and provide gamers the opportunity to compete against others from around the world for the
Ancedotal reports form China present a picture of a hugely expanding lottery and gaming market.
The race was the bookmaker’s biggest loser in the sixteen weeks to April 22, holding back growth in over-the-counter gross win for the period to 3 per cent.
In the world of sports event hosting the playing field is far from level as this new report shows.
At a seminar on Integrity in Sport, David O'Reilly, Betfair's general counsel, said betting on tennis was particularly popular in central and eastern Europe, a region in which there has traditionally
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
Taking its place alongside tennis legends like Tim Henman, Andy Murray and Goran Ivanisevic will be a hi-tech mobile exhibition vehicle showcasing the company's betting exchange concept to the thousan
In a move mirroring that of the drinks industry, gambling industry groups have drawn up the code in advance of the 2005 Gambling Act, which comes into force, September 1.
Real Madrid earlier this month signed a deal to make Austrian on-line betting firm Bwin its main sponsor. The Spanish media reported the deal to be worth between €15 million and €20 million.
The working title MotoGP ’07 should be out this autumn on the PS2. The game is likely to feature all the top riders and teams including Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Ducati.
William Hill said it might pull its backing for races such as the William Hill Trophy at the Cheltenham Festival if a group of 30 racecourses pull out of their deal with Satellite Information Services
Known as the ‘FA Cup of Darts’, Blue Square will sponsor the event for the next three years.
It announced on Friday it has invited a consortium of racing interests together with management and staff of the Tote itself, to make a final bid at full market value – believed to be in the region
Sunset + Vine has been commissioned to produce the monthly series and each leg of the tour will be filmed and broadcast on Channel 4 in the second half of 2007.
The US Congress approved a bill that would make it illegal for banks and credit-card companies to make payments to online gambling sites.
Online gaming companies including Sportingbet, 888 and PartyGaming said they would likely pull out of the United States and warned on future profits after the US congress unexpectedly passed legislation that would ban online gaming.
The club has signed an agreement with online games provider Inside Gaming Limited to supply and manage the site.
St Helens Rugby League Club is to launch rugby league’s first club-branded gaming website in a deal which could generate significant new revenues for the club.
The racing industry consortium has first refusal to buy the Tote, but it was thought that it was struggling to get the finance in place to match the government's new valuation, which is in excess of
The UK government is reported to be in exclusive talks to sell the Tote, the state-owned bookmaker, to a racing industry consortium.
Dicks, 64, has been bailed with a hearing scheduled for the September 28. He had been with the group since the launch of the company in 2000.
Peter Dicks, chairman of online gambling company Sportingbet, has quit his post. The move follows his arrest in America last week on charges of “gambling by computer”
Dicks is the second manager of a British gambling company to be held amid a clampdown on online gambling after David Carruthers, then chief executive officer of Betonsports was arrested and charged wi
The arrest of online bookmaker Sportingbet’s chairman Peter Dicks in the US is linked to "the alleged violation of Louisiana State laws relating to gambling by computer".
The resulting Euros 4 million profit contributed to an 11.5 per cent rise in pre tax profits for the Irish operator which made Euros 20.5 million for the year.
Bookmaker Paddy Power generated Euros 48 million in bets on the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
The new role signals a push to exploit sports rights into broadband and mobile content and put new media at the core of Sunset + Vine’s operations.
Sunset + Vine, the Tinopolis-owned independent sports production company, has appointed David Stranks, a former executive producer at mobile network 3, to head its expanding new media operations.
The deal will see betting kiosks at Old Trafford, as well as corporate areas, rebranded; a co-branded Betfred/Manchester United website developed to include poker, casinos and traditional betting; and
Bookmaker Betfred agreed a deal that makes the company English Premier League club Manchester United’s official bookmaking and online gaming partner.
Sportech said the deal would comprise a range of Everton FC-endorsed gaming, including a match day spot the ball competition, a weekly updated online gaming section on the club website, and fan corres
English Premier League club Everton agreed a deal with Sportech, owner of Littlewoods Football Pools, as the club's on and offline gaming partner for the 2006-07 season.
Sportech PLC, owners of the Littlewoods Football Pools agreed a sponsorship deal with English Premier League club
Sportech PLC, owners of the Littlewoods Football Pools agreed a sponsorship deal with English Premier League club Everton.
The deal underlines 888’s recent activity in the sports sponsorship market having already agreed partnerships with English Premier League club Middlesbrough FC and French Ligue 1 club Toulouse as we
The online gaming company 888.com agreed a deal to become the official club sponsor of Spanish Primera Liga club Sevilla, for the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 seasons.
The company's Web site, BETonSPORTS.com, has been non-operational since July 19 when it shut it down in partial compliance with the temporary restraining
Sports betting company BETonSPORTS told its employees that it would be shutting down its Costa Rican and Antiguan offices.
"Operating and arranging sport bets as well as advertising for it without official approval is... criminal and hence forbidden," Saxony's Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The German state of Saxony banned Austrian online gaming operator bwin Interactive Entertainment from taking sports bets in Germany, according to reports.
Under the deal which covers the next three seasons, 2006-07 to 2008-09, the Gamebookers.com logo will feature on the team shirt of all home games (back) and away games (front).
Online sports betting and casino operator Gamebookers agreed a deal to become the official gold sponsor of French Ligue 1 club FC Nantes.
The deal covers the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons. 888 already sponsors English Premier League club Middlesbrough.
Online gaming company 888 signed an agreement to be official club sponsors ofToulouse Football Club.
The group comprises founding partner Dan Harrington and assistant solicitors Nick White and Daniel Lowen and will provide intellectual property advice and handle everything from content licensing (inc
Leading sports and media law firm Couchman Harrington Associates, has launched a Mobile Entertainment Group.
The civil complaint seeks to obtain an order requiring BETonSPORTS to stop taking sports bets from the country and to return money held in betting accounts to account holders in the United States.
Online gaming company BETonSPORTS faces a civil case in the US over its operations taking bets on sports events.
The bill will make it illegal for US-based banks and credit card firms to make payments to online gambling sites.
The US House of Representatives voted to introduce proposals which would severely limit online gambling.
The shirt-sponsorship deal is said to worth around US$13 million and has approved by the club’s Management Commission. Boca are presently Argentine champions.
Leading online sports betting company Betandwin is reportedly close to a deal to sponsor top Argentine football club Boca Juniors.
The largest ranking tournament in the US will be known as the PartyPoker.net Las Vegas Desert Classic V.
It gets underway on June 16 at the Mandalay Bay Casino & Resort.
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) has agreed a deal with PartyPoker.net for the online gaming site to be the headline sponsor for the Las Vegas Desert Classic V.
The deal was agreed with the Sportsman Media Group, exclusive distribution partner of Betandwin.com, the online gaming specialists which outbid Sportfive in December to win the right to sell the inter
Dutch firm Talpa TV has secured the TV and internet rights of German soccer’s Bundesliga.
After the launch of both its satellite TV channel and broadband video channel, Racing UK is now looking to commercialise its international mobile rights.
New media rights specialist Sportev has been appointed by Racing UK - owner of media rights for 30 of the leading UK horseracing tracks, to advise on its international mobile phone strategy.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s annual study revealed it was the greatest expenditure figure in the nine-year history of the event – and an 18.4 percent increase on 2005.
The NASCAR weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March had a $197m impact on the state’s economy, according to the latest figures.
The club, which qualified for the UEFA Cup next season, secured the deal with international gaming and entertainment group Mansion.
English Premier League soccer club Tottenham Hotspur have signed a £34million, four-year sponsorship deal.
The club, who next week face Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League final, had held talks with a number of brands about breaking tradition and putting a sponsor’s logo on their famous strip.
Spanish soccer giants Barcelona have confirmed they have scrapped all negotiations over a possible shirt sponsorship deal.
GIG will provide software and services to allow Sportingbet to offer an enhanced play-by-play betting service throughout the course of a sporting event.
Online sports betting and gaming firm Sportingbet has signed a new deal with Global Interactive Gaming Ltd (GIG).
Caborn will address sports administrators and bookmakers at Twickenham stadium amid concerns over the best ways to tackle the threat of gambling-related corruption in sport.
UK sports minister Richard Caborn will be the keynote speaker at the 'Integrity in Sports Betting' conference today.
The two-year deal includes shirt sponsorship and would come into effect for the 2006/07 season.
The UK-facing online casino and poker operator, 32Red, has conditionally agreed to be the new official club sponsor of Premier League side Aston Villa.
United have had to find a new backer after current sponsor Vodafone decided to end its £9million-a-year deal from the end of this season.
Manchester United have signed the UK's biggest shirt sponsorship deal after reaching an agreement with insurer American International Group (AIG) worth £56.5million over four years.
Reports over the weekend suggested a deal between the English Premier League giants and the Gibraltar-based firm was imminent.
Manchester United’s hopes of securing a £70m sponsorship deal with an online casino firm appear to have collapsed after talks ground to a halt.
According to a report in the News of the World newspaper, the Old Trafford club have inked a four-year deal with poker giants Mansion.
English Premier League giants Manchester United are set smash the soccer shirt sponsorship record this week when they unveil a new $104m (£60m) deal.
The tracks, who joined rival broadcaster Racing UK following the collapse of the £307million Attheraces media rights deal in 2004, in turn dropped a counter-claim for £213million against At The Race
The consortium behind the At The Races satellite channel accepted £1million towards costs in return for dropping its original £51million claim against 30 British racecourses.
Mobile and broadband sports provider, Sportev, will provide the technology to deliver live coverage of the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final of the tournament from Betfair.com.
Sportev has teamed up with Betfair to deliver live coverage of tennis' ATP Tour in Acapulco exclusively to the betting exchange's UK customers.
MAS, the sports marketing and television agency and part of the SMT group, will assist Globet with the planning and implementation of different promotional activities designed to increase brand exposu
Media Action Sports (MAS) has been appointed by online betting company Globet.com as a consultant to its marketing and media buying activities in Spain.
A spokeswoman for Betandwin.com told the UK's Observer newspaper that the company was in talks with the club about a deal, believed to be worth around £12million a year.
Spanish football giant FC Barcelona is in talks with internet gambling firm Betandwin.com, which could see it agree its first shirt sponsorship deal.
Highlighted by its patented virtual imaging technology, along with StroMotion and SimulCam powered by Dartfish, it will provide unique graphic effects for ski jumping, freestyle & downhill skiing, spe
Sportvision, Inc., an innovator of sports and entertainment products for fans, media and marketing partners, will integrate a series of new graphic technologies into NBC’s telecast of the Winter Games in Torino.
His role will be to maximise distribution and revenue opportunities for ATR’s racecourse partners in the international marketplace.
Nigel Roddis, former managing director of the UK Tote’s pool business, has been appointed international director of At the Races, the UK and Ireland’s dedicated horseracing channel.
RDA will create and implement a sponsorship strategy for its six Greyhound stadiums in the UK, and distribute GRA’s media rights that include the William Hill Greyhound Derby.
Greyhound Racing rights and stadium owners GRA has appointed RDA Communications (RDA) as its marketing agency to exclusively handle its sponsorship and television rights.
The new publication, entitled 'iGB Aces' will be a 'whose who' of the key players in the gaming sector.
SportBusiness Group is to launch a new publication to support its successful 'iGaming Business' magazine.
The pair have set up an exclusive global sales and marketing alliance in relation to the gaming company’s signature sports property.
IMG has teamed up with the world’s largest gaming company, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., to promote the World Series of Poker.
He said: "My first requirement to this year's league is being clean. Being on the right track is the most important thing. Only those undone remain unknown.
Xie Yalong, president of Chinese Football Association (CFA), has warned the nation's football league risks being suspended unless concerns over gambling and corruption are properly addressed.
An Official Sponsor of The Ryder Cup since 2003, O2 has upgraded its sponsorship to make it one of six Official Partners of the event, which takes place from September 22 to 24.
O2 Ireland has become an Official Partner of this year's 36th Ryder Cup, which takes place at The K Club, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Following its sponsorship of Grand Prix events in Portugal, Great Britain and Valencia last season, the Austria-based company will again have the right to name the events, as well as other benefits, f
Online gaming company betandwin.com has renewed its deal with the MotoGP World Championship for title sponsorship to three rounds of the 2006 series.
The event - The 888.com World Snooker Championship - is the highlight of the snooker calendar.
888.com, the online casino and poker room, has signed a multi-million pound, five-year deal for title sponsorship of the World Snooker Championship.
The broadcaster, which last year made a major push into high-speed internet access through its £211m takeover of Easynet, said existing subscribers to its sports and movie channels will be able to si
UK satellite giant BSkyB yesterday launched a download service allowing existing customers to watch films, football highlights and news on their PCs and mobile phones.
The speakers are:
Irwin Khoza, 1st vice president, South African FA
Danny Jordaan, CEO, South Africa LOC - WC 2010
Jerome Valcke, director, FIFA Marketing & TV
Soccerex, the global b2b brand for the football business, has announced the first set of speakers for the forthcoming Soccerex London Forum on April 5, 2006 at The Institute of Directors.
The inventor of the award-winning three-dimensional ball-tracking device that has revolutionised cricket and tennis coverage globally, will take part in the opening panel discussion on ‘Innovations
Hawk-Eye inventor, Dr Paul Hawkins, is to speak at Sport and Technology: The Conference 2006.
The joint venture between the UK horseracing channel and the racing and sports betting newspaper owned by Trinity Mirror plc, creates the UK’s only ‘one stop’ on-line betting site and allows Bri
The Racing Post and Racing UK have joined forces to launch a broadband betting site and 3G mobile phone service.
Despite centuries of practice the French remain pretty poor losers.
Editorial director Kevin Roberts reviews issues from the past seven days.
The conference - from December 6 to 7 - aims to walk delegates through developing a computer game for their sports properties, brands and characters.
Multi-Platform Games Licensing 2005 in London next month looks at how to maximise brand potential through computer games.
The European Trademark Office, OHIM (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market), confirmed the position relating to event marks such as 'WM 2006', 'World Cup 2006', 'World Cup Germany', 'Germany
FIFA has won a trademark dispute that limits use of its event marks to the governing body's commercial partners.
The forum takes place from Monday, January 30 to January 31, 2006 at the Millennium Knightsbridge in London.
C5’s Advanced Forum on Sports Law & Business aims to provide delegates with the necessary understanding of issues surrounding the governance, regulation and commercial exploitation of sport.
A group of MPs, business organisations and community groups are behind the ‘Coventry Now’ initiative for the casino to be sited at the home of Championship club Coventry City.
A campaign has been launched backing Coventry’s bid to secure the UK's first regional casino pilot at the Ricoh Arena.
Separate deals have been agreed with Betfair and gaming company Tabcorp.
Some A$300million is wagered annually on the AFL (Australian Football League), according to Australia's Herald Sun.
Australian Rules Football has signed a deal with bookmaking agency Betfair that will deliver the league A$7.5million to A$10million over the next five years.
The Multi-Platform Games Licensing Conference, takes place between December 6-7 and will showcase a range of case studies and presentations by leaders in the licensing and video games industries.
A conference designed to open new opportunities for sports rights holders in the world of video games takes place in London in December.
The Champ Car-themed games are slated to be developed for use across a number of personal gaming platforms with further game release details to be announced.
The Champ Car World Series has agreed a long-term partnership with SE GAMES and Jester Interactive Publishing to develop exclusively licensed video games and related merchandise.
As part of its associate sponsor package, gtcasino.com have also become Villa’s official casino and poker room partner, offering fans the chance to play and win.
Premier League club Aston Villa has agreed a sponsorship rights agreement with online gaming company, gtcasino.com
The controversial move would effectively force players to choose between representing their club or their country.
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is said to be pressing ahead with plans to buy out several Premiership clubs.
He was one of five players banned by the Federation's Professional Football Disciplinary Board (PFDK) over their involvement in betting on a match between Akcaabat Sebatspor and Kayserispor last seaso
The Turkish Football Federation has banned Turkey international Gokdeniz Karadeniz, who plays for the Trabzonspor club, for 10 months over his role in a betting scandal.
It will also look at the quest for autonomy by some leagues and concerns about political interference.
The Task Force will report directly to FIFA's executive committee.
A new FIFA Task Force will be set up to tackle issues such as multiple club ownership, corruption and betting.
As part of the agreement, Sportsbook.com will be the official online gaming sponsor at six upcoming events, all of which will be televised on the popular 'Boxeo de Oro' on HBO Latino.
Online bookmaker Sportsbook.com has signed a sponsorship agreement with Golden Boy Promotions C1 the boxing promotion company run by six-time world champion Oscar de la Hoya.
Prior to the final series of races, Sky will also broadcast highlights of the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Selection Series and the opening Acts, the series of qualifying races held in 2005 and 2006,
Sky Sports has been awarded live and exclusive rights to UK coverage of the 32nd America's Cup.
The governing body of European soccer has asked the European Union's Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering to investigate.
UEFA has asked the European Union to investigate where some of the vast sums invested in soccer might have come from, amid fears clubs may be being used as vehicles for money laundering.
It will see Extreme commercially exploit the slate of original poker-based programming.
Extreme Entertainment, the UK-based programme producer and distributor, has sealed a multi-year agreement with The Poker Channel.
Soccer’s world governing body says it will investigate “multiple ownership of clubs by a single individual or organisation, political interference in football, non-respect of the established hiera
FIFA has expressed growing concern over corruption within soccer, arising from multiple club ownership and betting scandals.
Having acquired BetBug, a US-facing peer-to-peer sports betting exchange last month, it makes Trident the only company in the world with a regulatory compliant online betting platform for both the Eur
Trident Gaming, a provider of sports betting services, has acquired Gamebookers, the European online sports betting provider.
It is the second consecutive year Globet.com has been main sponsor with last season's Spanish Cup winners and Champions League contender.
Globet.com, an international online sports betting company, will be the main sponsor of top-flight Spanish soccer side Real Betis for the 2005/06 season.
This is according to ORC GamblerTrack, an annual study carried out by research consultancy ORC International.
Deregulation of gambling laws in the UK is expected to encourage even faster growth in online betting, which rose 46 per cent last year.
The two-year partnership will see the world's largest tournament website linking up with FLi’s 77 club websites.
PokerStars.com has agreed a six-figure deal to become the exclusive online poker partner to the FL Interactive (FLi) network of official soccer club websites in the UK.
It stems from the league's ban on advertising related to the nation's gambling capital and NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league couldn't rule out extending the ban to the TV series, reports USA T
The NFL could bar broadcaster NBC from promoting one of its hit shows, 'Las Vegas', when the network begins carrying Sunday night football next year.
According to a new report by Informa, mobile gambling is due to increase more than six-fold in the next five years - by 2010 there will be 210 million mobile gamblers, the majority in Europe and Asia.
Mobile Gambling is set to generate $7.6billion in global revenues by 2010.
He will manage all programming, production and promotions at the channel, reporting to FranC'ois Schmitt, Deputy Managing Director of Broadcast, based at Eurosport's Headquarters in Paris.
David Kerr, current Head of Sport at Channel 4, has been appointed the new Director of Brtish Eurosport.
The UK sports betting provider has agreed the deal across a number of Setanta’s specialist sports channels.
William Hill has signed an exclusive sponsorship agreement with the UK’s second largest sports broadcaster, Setanta Sports.
The website will target more than a hundred million fans across Greater China and the global Chinese community.
Premier League giants Arsenal have agreed an exclusive deal with China.com Inc. to launch an official Chinese website and wireless services in Greater China.
Led and managed by Aura Sports and Hawk-Eye Innovations, the company behind the virtual imaging in televised matches for lbw decisions, an online game - sponsored by Cisco Systems - has been set up in
Cisco Systems, Hawk-Eye Innovations and www.ECB.co.uk will offer cricket fans the opportunity to give their verdict during this summer’s eagerly awaited clash between England and Australia.
SBI Group was founded in 1985 as Sponsorship Bureau International, and the award-winning sponsorship consultancy has provided a base for expansion into property ownership in recent years.
Quintus, the sports and entertainment group, has acquired sponsorship consultancy SBI Group.
The 81 per cent-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation will launch an official Chinese website and wireless services for the 2005 European champions, targeting the Chinese audience.
China.com Inc., a Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) Internet portal and online game provider, has signed an exclusive partnership with LiverpoolFC.TV, the digital media arm of the Premier League club.
It will be held on June 30 in London at the offices of law firm Norton Rose, bringing together specialists in the field of licensing and merchandising.
There are only a few places left for the SportBusiness seminar '40 ways to make more money from Licensing and Merchandising’.
The seminar, to be held on June 30 at the offices of law firm Norton Rose, brings together eight specialists in the field of licensing and merchandising.
Spreadshirt is to sponsor the SportBusiness Licensing and Merchandising Seminar.
Known as the ‘Junior Reds’, the site provides news, downloads, games and opportunity to learn more about the club and its players.
Premier League side Charlton Athletic has set up a website dedicated to its younger fans.
‘Wheels Park’ in the east side of the city could be the future home to The City of Birmingham Stadium.
It would incorporate bars, restaurants, club retail and a casino.
Premier League club Birmingham City has revealed plans for a 50,000-seat state-of-the-art multi-use stadium development, funded by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.
A planned joint venture between the Premier League club and the Las Vegas Sands Corp for a large entertainment complex featuring a casino sited next to the Old Trafford stadium could fall foul of NFL
The National Football League (NFL) has asked Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer to explain Manchester United's links to a Las Vegas casino.
Over the years Crystal Palace have gone down more regularly than the average hooker.
Editorial director Kevin Roberts delivers a personal perspective on the week's key events
