US Major League Soccer players have voted to strike if a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is not agreed by the season start on March 25.
Shanghai Fashion Plastic Products, the Chinese company ordered by world football’s governing body FIFA yesterday to stop making World Cup mascots because of poor factory working conditions, says it is a victim of ‘South African politicking’.
Only one golf course in Beijing has been developed legally, a member of the law committee in China's parliament said yesterday.
Two top-flight Chinese football clubs have been relegated to the second division after club officials were found guilty of matchfixing and gambling.
There are no significant statistical correlations between sports sponsorship awareness and attitudes to alcohol use, according to research by Cardiff Business School’s Dr Fiona Davies, published by the International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship.
The economic impact of the 159-year-old America’s Cup regatta, which starts today in Valencia, Spain, has fallen from 10 per cent compared to 2007 according to sports business professor Tom Cannon.
The International Olympic Committee and US Olympic Committee have accused a number of high-profile companies of "ambush marketing practices" in the weeks leading up to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Italian football club Udinese is taking embattled English club Portsmouth to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for failing to pay for a player transferred between the clubs.
The European Sponsorship Association (ESA), the trade body representing the sponsorship industry in Europe, has said the UK government’s Health Committee Report on Alcohol misrepresents the complete picture of the alcohol sponsorship landscape and “fails to acknowledge self-regulation activity by rights-holders”.
A French court has ruled illegal the lifetime ban that the International Automobile Federation (FIA) imposed on Flavio Briatore taking part in motor-racing.
