North America

Former president of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, and current senior executive on the Euroleague, Marshall Glickman, has unveiled full plans of his new sports consultancy business.

An inquiry into the way ESPN buys and distributes its live college football and basketball rights has been opened by the US Justice Department’s antitrust division, according to numerous reports in the US media.

The first-ever professional cricket league in the US has been unveiled – with eight US cities competing in a tournament which gets underway next month.

Major League Soccer has confirmed the Los Angeles Galaxy’s Home Depot Center will host the finale of the season for a second straight year.

Plans for a cricket tour of the US by a team from India have been ruled out by the sport’s world governing body, the ICC.

The New York Yankees’ YES Network has signed a deal with the NFL’s New York Giants.

Just days after a rival bid was sent to Major League Baseball chiefs, one of the favourites to land the Montreal Expos unveiled full details of its bid in the hope of convincing commissioner Bud Selig (pictured).

A proposal to buy the Montreal Expos Major League Baseball team has been submitted to commissioner Bud Selig.

TWI has been re-appointed to distribute Manchester United Television (MUTV) worldwide for the next three seasons.

The European Broadcast Union has secured the broadcast right to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and 2012 Summer Olympic Games in a deal worth an estimated $800 million.

Ho Kim, president of Octagon Korea, has joined the team behind the Paris 2012 Olympic Games bid.

Canadian Football League chiefs have secured US TV coverage courtesy of its deal with marketing company the Trajectory Sports & Media Group.

US network ABC is celebrating after its broadcast of the Detroit Piston’s title-winning victory over the Los Angeles Lakers delivered its highest NBA Finals rating since 2000 – and the second-highest since 1998.

The US Olympic Committee has appointed Peter Ueberroth, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball, as chairman of its new streamlined board of directors.

NASCAR is expanding into new territories after opening a new office in Canada, designed to provide it with a springboard to a range of new commercial deals.

Hair product brand John Paul Mitchell Systems has become the latest sponsor of action sports and music festival the Core Tour.