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Conference organiser Leaders in Football has appointed public relations agency Macesport to manage media around its event for two more years.

Executives from adidas, Audi, Emirates and Swiss Timing will speak at a session on sponsorship strategy at the next SportAccord Convention.

The Pakistan Olympic Association has provisionally rescheduled the country's national games, due to take place this month, for December due to over security fears.

Asian Football Confederation president Mohammed bin Hammam will speak at the inaugural Soccerex Asian Forum, which takes place in Singapore on July 28 and 29

Canadians report a surge in national pride in the afterglow of the Olympics.

Twenty-five cities are in the running for the SportBusiness Ultimate Sports City of 2010 award. Reigning champion Melbourne is on the list again, but faces competition from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

London will take on Beijing and Polish city Chorzow for the right to stage athletics' 2015 World Championships, the BBC reports.

Annecy in France, Munich, and PyeongChang in South Korea officially applied to become candidates to host the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in 2018 by submitting responses to an International Olympic Committee questionnaire by a March 15 deadline.

Samoa will host the 2010 ANZ Pacific Nations Cup, the International Rugby Board announced yesterday.

Irish city Galway has beaten competition from Amsterdam and Stockholm to be chosen as the finishing port for the next Volvo Round the World Ocean Race in 2012.

International sports federations are looking for host cities with a clear sports strategy, and believe bidders could save time and money by undergoing training in sports strategy, according to a survey by the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES).

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’.

Golfer Tiger Woods will share the cover of his new Electronic Arts video game, ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11’, for the first time in its 13-year run.

A French secretary of state and the president of the national federation have publicly disagreed about the running of football in the country just two months before France knows whether its Euro 2016 bid has been successful.

The International Ice Hockey Federation said yesterday it has abandoned plans to re-launch the Pan-European Champions Hockey League, after failing to reach a financial agreement with Europe's top leagues and clubs.

The International Olympic Committee is more interested in “why” a city wants to host an Olympic Games rather than “how” they are able to do it, according to IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr.

The Indian Premier League has postponed for two weeks the sale of its new franchises and removed some tough financial demands from the tender.

Madrid’s bid to organise the 2018 Ryder Cup has received a major boost from a survey conducted amongst 1,000 UK golf fans.