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Terry Byrne, David Beckham’s former personal manager and founder of UK-based sports agency 1966, is making a move back into talent management with new venture 10Ten. He spoke to Matt Cutler about working alongside some of world football’s biggest stars.

What’s the better option: renovating a stadium, or upping sticks and building a brand new venue on a different site? All major sports teams have been faced with the conundrum at some point. Elisha Chauhan spoke to expert stadia consultants to find out the latest thinking in the pros and cons of both options.

How do you transform a beautiful-but-remote Scottish golf course into a world-class venue that caters for 200,000 fans and looks great on TV? As Kevin Roberts found out, a lot of high-spec temporary structures.

Cycling’s WorldTour will no longer end in Beijing, but Brian Cookson believes a presence in China will continue regardless. Elisha Chauhan reports.

Elisha Chauhan spoke to FISU (International University Sports Federation) secretary-general Eric Saintrond about generating bidding interest in the 2021 summer and winter Universiades.

Kevin Roberts: Once again in rugby, out of chaos comes order. But it’s a lesson for other sports who want a commercial upturn.

In the fourth in a series of five mini reports on sports event hosting, in association with the Ultimate Sports Cities rankings, we take a look at tourism and public interest. There is a discussion of the latest thinking around tourism and public interest, and case studies looking at the top five cities in the category of tourism and public interest in this year's rankings - London, Melbourne, Sochi, Copenhagen and Calgary.

Omar Johnson, executive vice-president for marketing at Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, has said the use of his company's products by athletes at the 2012 London Olympic Games wasn't 'ambush marketing'.

Mundane family photos, courtside experiences and getting the timing right were among the themes as the NBA and Facebook discussed how to create engaging social media content at the Leaders Sports Summit this afternoon.

CRM experts from some of the world’s biggest sports teams shared views on how best to use digital channels to generate revenue from fans at the Leaders Sport Business Summit today.

Olympic Bronze medallist Tom Daley delivered a how-to guide for athletes on succeeding on social media, at the Leaders Sport Business Summit today.

Dave Finocchio, founder of sports news website Bleacher Report, gave a series of tips this morning at the 2014 Leaders Sports Business Summit about the secrets to creating strong sports content.

UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino addressed several of the biggest issues facing European football today at the Leaders Sport Business Summit, and backed some of the federation’s big policies, including financial fair play and the expanded Euro tournament.

All the major sports properties in Japanese carmaker Nissan’s “small, high-impact” sponsorship portfolio have met five criteria set by the brand when selecting a sports property, Roel De Vries, Nissan's head of brand strategy and marketing told delegates at the Leaders in Sport conference this morning.

Jeffrey Webb, FIFA vice-president and president of CONCACAF, has called on football's world governing body to reintroduce the continental rotation of the World Cup.

Real Madrid vice-president Pedro López Jiménez said football's world governing body FIFA was "dysfunctional" in communicating with European football club consortium the ECA, speaking today on a panel a…