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The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has extended its partnership with North America’s Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) for the staging of the World Baseball Classic national team event.

American authorities have broadened their investigations into corruption in world football and expect to file additional charges, according to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, while her Swiss counterpart Michael Lauber said his office has seized property and flats in the Swiss Alps in connection with its probe of Fifa.

Newly-elected International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Sebastian Coe has confirmed two senior managerial appointments as he called on the organisation to move forward following a year that has provided a “great test of character”.

The organisers of the Great CityGames series, which operates street athletics events in UK cities, have announced plans to go global, with Australia interested in staging an event in 2017.

The MotoGP motorcycling championship has unveiled its provisional calendar for the 2016 season, confirming that its Indianapolis round in the United States will be dropped from the schedule in order to make way for the revived Austrian Grand Prix.

The Volvo Ocean Race is looking for a new chief executive after current incumbent Knut Frostad announced he will step down for family reasons.

World Rugby, the global governing body of rugby union, has announced that it has injected £34m (€46.6m/$52.2m) into the 10 tier-two nations that are competing in the upcoming 2015 Rugby World Cup over the four-year period from 2012 to 2015.

Domenico Scala, the independent chairman of Fifa’s Audit and Compliance Committee, has today (Thursday) unveiled an eight-point plan for the comprehensive reform of football’s global governing body.

The Formula One motor-racing series has registered a rise by more than a third in its pre-tax profits for 2014, while revenues also increased by 3.2 per cent, according to the Daily Telegraph.

English clubs’ expenditure on transfer fees in the recent summer window was more than double the amount in any other major European footballing country, according to the latest Big 5 Transfer Window Analysis report.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has appointed a German regional government official as his new chief of staff.

Fifa presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon has accused the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) of lobbying its members in a bid to drum up support for rival Michel Platini at next year’s election.

Former Nigeria national team footballer Segun Odegbami has announced that he intends to run for the Fifa presidency.

Scottish sports administrator Louise Martin is the new president of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) after defeating incumbent Prince Tunku Tan Sri Imran Tuanku Ja’afar of Malaysia in a vote at the organisation’s general assembly in Auckland today (Wednesday).

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group (MTG) has closed its deal to acquire a majority stake in Turtle Entertainment, a leading eSports company that operates the ESL brand.

Sebastian Coe, the new president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, has defended his links with sportswear company Nike.