Kevin Roberts

Kevin Roberts from Istanbul, reflects on efforts to raise levels of professionalism in the Turkish sports business.

Japanese rugby is at an all-time high, but with the Tokyo-based Super Rugby team set to be axed in 2020 Kevin Roberts asks how traction can be maintained so that Rugby World Cup 2019 is remembered as the starting point and not a high water mark for the sport in one of the world’s major markets.

Kevin Roberts on the International Association of Athletics Federations president’s reaction to the well-known Doha dilemma…empty seats

It was never going to be easy for Lord Sebastian Coe when he became president of the International Association of Athletics Federations. He took the reins of a sport in a bad place
Business

How much more valuable could the sports business become if user data could be better standardised, integrated and aggregated?
Rugby Union
Events

World Rugby chief executive Brett Gosper tell Kevin Roberts about his hopes for the impact and legacy of the showpiece 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan at the tail end of a year when plans for a global Nations Championship foundered on the rocks of resistance from the sport’s established nations.
Football
Sports Betting

The German Football Association (DFB) has selected Genius Sports to launch a new integrity programme to combat match fixing and betting-related corruption
Cycling
Business

As the Tour de France moves towards its conclusion in Paris, Kevin Roberts talks to Ralph Denk, team manager of the German Bora-Hansgrohe team about the business of running and funding an international cycling outfit.
Basketball
Sports Betting

Basketball’s world governing body Fiba has extended its data and technology partnership with Genius Sports into a third decade.
Events

The spectacular sport of FX Ball, which earlier this year became the first new sport to be showcased by Le Tremplin, the Paris-based sports and technology accelerator programme, has signed on as a sponsor…