Europe

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has criticised the International Basketball Federation’s (Fiba) decision to suspend the country’s governing body, stating he will hold talks to resolve the matter.

Frank Dunne spoke to Javier Tebas, president of the Spanish football league (LFP), about his attempts to reform his country’s football media rights landscape and why Fifa must not abolish third-party ownership.

Wigan Warriors has confirmed it is to become the first rugby league club from the English Super League to take a scheduled home game on the road to London.

Robert Sarver, the majority owner of NBA basketball franchise the Phoenix Suns, has failed in his latest efforts to acquire a European football club after his takeover bid for Spanish Liga team Levante was rejected.

Euroleague Basketball has announced its latest batch of games to take place in the United States and China as part of its World Tour.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has announced that London will host a Snowboard World Cup Big Air event later this year.

Spanish Liga football team Real Madrid has agreed a partnership with e-commerce giant the Alibaba Group in a bid to further its presence in the Chinese market.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has said world football’s governing body has passed a resolution offering its full backing to Russia’s staging of the 2018 World Cup amid ongoing investigations into the bidding process for the tournament and cut-backs in preparations for the event.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has entered into a strategic partnership with USA Rugby through which it will seek to aid the commercial growth of rugby union in the United States.

The 2014 edition of multi-sport event the Commonwealth Games contributed more than £740m (€1.04bn/$1.15bn) to Scotland’s economy and supported thousands of new jobs, according to the findings of a new report.

A war of words broke out between the French Football Federation (FFF) and the French Football League (LFP) today (Thursday) after the former body annulled the latter’s plan to overhaul the promotion and relegation system in club football.

World Rugby has said that an increased ticket capacity for its 2015 Rugby World Cup could result in the biggest edition of the national team event to date.

European football’s governing body Uefa has claimed a key victory in its ongoing efforts to enforce its Financial Fair Play (FFP) system after stating that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has thrown out a legal challenge against the measures.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the International Olympic Committee to fully respect human rights commitments in preparing for and hosting the 2022 winter Olympic Games, adding the forthcoming decision over whether Almaty or Beijing will stage the event will provide an “extreme test” of the IOC’s new Agenda 2020 measures.

Orlando Magic and Toronto Raptors will play a regular-season game at London’s O2 Arena on January 14 as the latest addition to the NBA basketball league’s Global Games 2015-16 line-up.

Lausanne 2020 has outlined the extensive commercial backing it has received for its bid to host the 2020 winter Youth Olympic Games, as the process nears its conclusion.