Americas

Lacrosse
Sponsorship & Marketing

Castore has landed its first centralised deal with a professional sports league in North America, striking a long-term agreement with the National Lacrosse League
Media

DirecTV has accused Disney of negotiating in bad faith, as their carriage dispute enters a second week and intensifies ahead of the return of the NFL's Monday Night Football
Ice Hockey
Sponsorship & Marketing

Having moved away from sponsorships over the last 18 months, TikTok has signed a wide-ranging agreement with Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) that includes sponsoring the Washington Capitals NHL team.
Tennis
Industry Moves

Tennis Channel's long-serving chief executive and chairman Ken Solomon has reportedly been ousted by parent company Sinclair for time spent on non-work activities
Motorsport
Events

Extreme E (XE), the electric off-road racing series, has scrapped the remaining races on the 2024 calendar, including a planned debut in the United States, and is evaluating how best to complete its final…
Football
Media

TV Pública, the state broadcaster in Argentina, has insisted it is in talks to sublicense rights to the Argentina national team for the remainder of the 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifiers after a rare blackout last night.
Multiple Sports
Media

Amazon has further strengthened its presence in the Canadian sports media market after reaching an agreement to carry Bell Media’s TSN service on its Prime Video channels.
Esports
Sponsorship & Marketing

US motor-racing series Nascar has signed a commercial deal with esports tournament organiser Blast, a rare example of a traditional sports property sponsoring a gaming one
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Nicolas Matthews has left his role as chief executive of SportsMax, the Caribbean pay-television broadcaster, SportBusiness understands.
Basketball
Sponsorship & Marketing

WNBA expansion team Golden State Valkyries has named JP Morgan Chase as its first jersey patch sponsor, one of two on-kit branding assets ringfenced for sale by WNBA teams.
Baseball
Finance & Law

Major League Baseball has piled the pressure on Diamond Sports Group, claiming it will consider "more drastic" legal action should the firm's emergence from bankruptcy not be accelerated
Football
Media

Premier League coverage in the Caribbean will be shown by the ESPN channels and made available to Flow TV subscribers after a deal with pay-television broadcaster Verticast ended one season early.
Cricket
Industry Moves

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has appointed experienced UK sports industry executive Rupert Hunter as its new chief commercial officer, SportBusiness can reveal.
Football
Media

SportBusiness understands that Amazon Prime Video will soon finalise a deal to exclusively show one match per week – a home fixture of a club belonging to the Liga Forte Uniao bloc – over five years, from 2025 to 2029.
American Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Cleveland Browns' 20-year contract would cover any potential move to a proposed $2.4bn domed stadium in Brook Park.
Football
Industry Moves

IMG is currently looking to recruit a vice-president of football in the Americas and a vice-president of rights in Latin America after losing some key experience in the region
American Football
Media

Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington have seen the start of their era as Big Ten Conference schools blacked out to Comcast customers in their home markets, as the latter’s Big Ten Network carriage row rumbled into the start of the new season.
Multiple Sports
Media

Disney and DirecTV failed to agree on a licensing deal, leading to Disney-owned channels — including ESPN and ABC — going dark Sunday night in the middle of US Open broadcasting and just before a marquee col…