Governance

Mark Taylor, the former Australia cricket captain, has stepped down from his position as director of Cricket Australia as the fallout from the ‘Sandpapergate’ ball-tampering scandal continues.

WNBA players have opted out of the current collective bargaining agreement in order to seek higher wages, improved travel conditions and more marketing opportunities

Cricket Australia chairman David Peever has tendered his resignation following the damning Ethics Centre review into the organisation’s culture, only a week after he was unanimously re-elected to the r…

Kwesi Nyantakyi has been given a lifetime ban from all football-related activities by Fifa for a series of violations of the governing body’s ethics code, including bribery and corruption.

Aly Raisman has questioned USA Gymnastics’ decision to hire Mary Bono as its interim president and chief executive.

One day after being appointed as the interim president and chief executive of USA Gymnastics, Mary Bono has already found herself in the firing line thanks to a tweet she posted criticising sportswear…

Fifa has launched its first ever global strategy for women’s football which outlines how it will work with confederations and Member Associations (MAs) to grow the women’s game.

The Professional Squash Association (PSA), has announced the creation of the first-ever prize money pool for players that have consented to allow it to commercialise their in-match physiological data

Fifa has today (Friday) handed a two-year ban to Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee member Kalusha Bwalya as the fallout from the investigation into disgraced former Asian football…

Senegal has been confirmed as the host of the 2022 summer Youth Olympic Games at the 133rd IOC Session in Buenos Aires. The country has thus become the first African host of any Olympic event

Interim International Boxing Association (Aiba) president Gafur Rakhimov has maintained he has no ties with criminal organisations and hopes to face rival candidates for the full-time position, as the…

Fifa has suspended the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) due to government interference in the running of the sport in the west African country

UK Sport, the body that oversees the investment of public and National Lottery money into British Olympic and Paralympic sport, has revealed a list of major events for which hosting rights could be targeted…

Fiba General Secretary Patrick Baumann has expressed his hope that next year’s Fiba World Cup in China can act as a springboard to make basketball the most popular sport in the world.

Cricket Australia has today (Wednesday) announced Kevin Roberts as its new chief executive

Colin Graves, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has come under scrutiny after it emerged that the organisation’s new competition, The Hundred, could cost significantly more than o…

World Rugby is planning the introduction of a major new tournament intended to grow global interest in the sport, in a move that has been described as the biggest shake-up to rugby since the sport went…

The Danish Football Association (DBU) has signed a new six-year agreement with the country’s players’ union, Spillerforeningen, over national team participation, following a dispute over commercial rig…