One Championship agrees sportswear deal with Li Ning
Mixed martial arts promotion One Championship has agreed a deal with Chinese sportswear firm Li Ning to produce martial arts gear for fans and athletes
Indian sports industry education service Sporjo raises $2m
Sporjo, an India-based online service providing education and training aimed at budding and established sports industry professionals, has raised $2m (€1.7m) in a pre-Series A funding round.
Sepang Racing Team shutting down, new MotoGP team on horizon
Malaysian MotoGP team Petronas Sepang Racing Team (SRT) is shutting down at the end of the 2021 season
Former IOC president Jacques Rogge dies at 79
Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who was the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving between 2001 and 2013, has died at age 79
Ramiz Raja ‘to succeed Ehsan Mani’ as PCB chairman
Ehsan Mani has stepped down as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and will be replaced by former national team captain and television commentator Ramiz Raja, according to multiple news reports
VTV sublicenses World Cup qualifiers from FPT
Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV has acquired rights for Vietnam's upcoming qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in a sublicensing deal with telco FPT
Dream11, FanCode agree ICC sponsorship, streaming deals
Indian fantasy sports company Dream11 has become naming sponsor of all International Cricket Council 'pathway' tournament qualifying events in a deal running until April 2023
PRO Company acquires AFC rights in Iraq
Marketing firm PRO Company has acquired the media rights for Asian Football Confederation competitions in the 2021 to 2024 cycle
Biggest-ever Paralympics opens in Tokyo
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics officially opened yesterday (Tuesday), with organisers hailing the biggest-ever athlete contingent for making it to the Games against a challenging pandemic backdrop
Young Chinese use Xiaohongshu to share their sporting lifestyles
In a guest article for SportBusiness, Denis Green, global head of communications for the Mailman digital agency, speaks to Li Shen, head of sports content operations at Xiaohongshu. The growing social media 'lifestyle' app is popular among young and female Chinese audiences and has ambitions to be a bigger platform for sports content