Events

All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) chief executive Richard Lewis has revealed that Wimbledon organisers are considering shifting future editions of the tennis championships back by one week in order to give players additional recovery time from the French Open.

USA Basketball today announced a partnership with 24 Hour Fitness that sees the fitness club become an Official Partner of the USA Basketball men’s and women’s national teams.

ESPN Caribbean has acquired the rights for International Cricket Council (ICC) events and the Champions League Twenty20 through to 2015 in a deal with ESPN STAR Sports (ESS).

Bentley Cardiff has signed up as an official team sponsor for Elemis Polo at the Manor, which returns for its second year at The Celtic Manor Resort on Saturday 7th July.

The Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA (National Basketball Association), and top Euroleague Basketball teams Alba Berlin from Germany, EA7 Emporio Armani from Italy, and Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul from Turkey will play a series of pre-season games this October as part of NBA Europe Live 2012 presented by BBVA.

IndyCar officials have elected against adding another race to the 2012 calendar after the motorsport series was this month forced to cancel its event in China.

The first in a series of blogs by Gordon Lott, Head of Olympic Marketing and Group Sponsorship at Lloyds Banking Group.

The Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) will launch its Master of Sport Administration (MSA) course at Russia.Park in Perks Field, Kensington Gardens on Monday, 30 July 2012 – day four of the London 2012 Olympics.

English football club Bristol City has announced a major refurbishment of the public concourse, catering and hospitality areas at Ashton Gate stadium as part of a ‘summer of change’ at the club.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) today released its first-ever overall international top selling jerseys list with five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant topping the table for the 2011-12 season.

The new ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) Player Council was announced at a pre-Wimbledon player meeting last night.

The World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA) has awarded the 2014 and 2016 WTBA World Youth Championships to Hong Kong and Lincoln, Nebraska respectively.

UEFA has repeated its claim that expanding the European Championship will not lead to a watering down of its quality, while it maintained that the empty seats witnessed at Euro 2012 have been caused by a combination of the exit of the host nations and the global economic downturn.

The field to host the International Equestrian Federation’s (FEI) World Games in 2018 has been shortened after Budapest’s bid was withdrawn from the race.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has ruled that the innovative, but controversial, blue clay surface will not be permitted at next year’s Madrid Open.

Adidas has announced that it expects to generate record football sales of more than Eur1.6 billion in 2012, a position boosted by its dominant position at UEFA Euro 2012.