Features

With the global interest in snooker growing, how long can ‘Steel City’ Sheffield hold onto the sport’s World Championship? Elisha Chauhan finds out.

Teenage diving sensation and Olympic bronze medallist, Tom Daley, tells SportBusiness International why London should win the 2014 Ultimate Sports City award.

Olympic gold medallist and five-time America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts kickstarts our profiles of 2014 Ultimate Sports City nominees by telling SportBusiness International why Auckland should win.

Kevin Roberts (Editorial Director, SportBusiness Group) went to Ashgabat in Turkmenistan in November 2013 to find out why it is one of the new kids on the block.

Apart from a handful of Danish stars, virtually every leading badminton player hails from Asia. Dominic Bliss asks Badminton World Federation (BWF) president Poul-Erik Hoyer what he’s doing to correct the global imbalance.

The Josoor Institute, an initiative driven by the organisers of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, looks set to be build a strong skills base for the sports industry in Qatar and the Middle East. Kevin Roberts reports.

Rob Ridley looks at the growth prospects of MMA (mixed martial arts) properties beyond the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). Do recent deals with two heavyweights in the agency business suggest there is space in the market for several major properties in the burgeoning sport?

Fantasy sports fans in north America will soon have their own 24-hour dedicated TV network. Owen Evans looks at whether success will be a reality.

Owen Evans spoke to DFL (German Football League) Sport Enterprises managing director Jörg Daubitzer about his plans to challenge the English Premier League in the international media rights arena. 

Frank Dunne looks at what last year’s sale of IMG could mean for the media sector and the agency’s second biggest component, IMG Media.

Dmitry Chernyshenko,  President of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, writes exclusively for  SportBusiness International.

Owen Evans speaks to Turkish Airlines about their recent motto switch. How easy is it for one of sport’s most active brands to change its identity?

Richard Gillis reports on the key issues around second-screen technology, and what opportunities it could offer brands in the future.

Rally enthusiast Richard Bevan, the League Managers Association (LMA) CEO and former CEO of the English Professional Cricketers Association (PCA), was appointed chairman of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) late last year. He talks us through his sports industry career highs and lows.

Matt Cutler spoke to Mark Turner, executive chairman of marketing and events company OC Sport and the man who heads up the Extreme Sailing Series, about adding Russia and Australia as venues for 2014 and where he sees events going in the future.

English football club Brighton and Hove Albion’s Amex Stadium is being used as a blueprint for a wave of new-build stadia in Italian football’s top-flight Serie A. Elisha Chauhan spoke to the club’s CEO and Juventus, the only club in the league to currently own its stadium, about what will be required to make the new venues successful.