American Football

NFL American football franchise the Washington Redskins has made its latest move to protect its famous name by filing an appeal to overturn a US government tribunal decision that cancelled the team’s trademarks.

Chinese sports authorities have entered into an agreement to launch the first American football league in the country.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has said it will appeal a US judge’s ruling that would allow universities to offer student athletes a limited share of revenue, a decision that overturns the NCAA’s stance of enforcing amateurism in college sports.

Social gaming company Zynga has announced a push into the sports market by striking licensing deals with American football’s NFL and golf star Tiger Woods.

Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis has held talks with San Antonio officials to move the NFL American football franchise to the city, according to multiple reports.

American football’s NFL has announced that Zebra Technologies’ real-time location system (RTLS) will be installed in 17 stadia during the 2014 season.

NFL American football franchise the Washington Redskins has engaged public relations firm Burson-Marsteller in its latest move to battle criticism that its famous moniker is a racial slur.

The furore over the Washington Redskins’ name builds not only in the nation’s capital, but across the United States. However, the region has a precedent for name changes working out rather well.

US business mogul Donald Trump, a Toronto-based group fronted by rock star Jon Bon Jovi and Terry Pegula, owner of NHL ice hockey franchise the Buffalo Sabres, have lodged initial bids for NFL American football team the Buffalo Bills, according to multiple reports.

The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) has become the latest sports body to move an event out of Israel after announcing that its 2014 Flag Football World Championship will now be held in Italy.

The Dallas Cowboys will move into a new headquarters in Frisco by 2016. Barry Wilner looks at how the set-up could be a best practice model for sports franchises looking to secure public funding for stadia and facilities.

Pat Bowlen, owner of NFL American football outfit the Denver Broncos, is to resign control of the franchise, with the team maintaining that ownership of the club will remain in his family.

National Football League (NFL) commissioner Roger Goodell has raised the prospect of the Oakland Raiders sharing the new home of the San Francisco 49ers as a means to end the former franchise’s stadium frustrations.

NFL American football franchise the Green Bay Packers gained record revenues of $324.1m (€236.6m) during the 2013 season, numbers that mean the league’s 32 teams received more than $6bn in annual revenues for the first time.

Plans are afoot for an NFL (National Football League) developmental league. Barry Wilner explains how it could work, and why it could be a watershed for a variety of stakeholders in north America’s sports industry.

American football league the NFL has agreed to remove its cap on proposed damages payable to former players who develop neurological illnesses related to concussion.