Europe

Organisers of the World Cup of Pool have announced that the 2014 edition of the annual event will take place in the English city of Portsmouth.

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, will be reduced to 17 teams for the 2014-15 season after the Bilbao Basket team was excluded from the competition.

Nîmes has reached an agreement to stage the start of the 2017 Vuelta a España cycling race, according to the French city’s Mayor Jean-Paul Fournier.

Glasgow 2014 organisers have said the Scottish city’s staging of the Commonwealth Games will be the first to be delivered within budget for a generation.

Italian Serie A football club Inter Milan has appointed Michael Bolingbroke, former chief operating officer of English Premier League side Manchester United, as its new chief executive.

English Premier League football club Arsenal has withdrawn support for its Fanshare scheme citing a lack of liquidity in the share market and a shortfall in funding.

The Olympic Park for Barcelona’s staging of the 1992 summer Games is set to be transformed into the world’s first sports theme park, according to a new project unveiled in the Spanish city.

The PGA of America and European Tour organisations are in talks about staging a senior version of the Ryder Cup, the biennial tournament between golfers from the US and Europe.

Lens’ promotion to Ligue 1 remains in serious doubt after an appeal commission upheld a ruling that has barred the club from joining the top tier of French football on financial grounds.

Sepp Blatter, the president of football’s world governing body Fifa, has suggested that the proposed number of stadia earmarked as host venues for the 2018 World Cup in Russia could be reduced from 12 to 10.

English Premier League champion Manchester City has entered into a 10-year partnership with local institutions Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Manchester City Council (MCC) designed to enhance the sporting and educational legacy in the city.

Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has stressed that the country’s staging of the 2018 Fifa World Cup will not affected by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is seeking a new chief executive after David Collier announced he will retire at the end of the 2014 season following a decade in the role.

English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has received a major boost in its efforts to develop a new 58,000-seat stadium after being granted government approval for a compulsory purchase order (CPO) which will allow work to commence on the site.

Leinster Rugby, reigning champion of the Pro12 European club rugby union competition, has unveiled plans to increase the capacity of its RDS Arena from 18,500 to 25,000.

Woburn Golf Club has been announced as the host of the Women’s British Open in 2016.