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Football
Business

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has maintained his conscience is clean and warned anyone who associates him with the ongoing scandal in world football “should go to jail”, as it emerged today (Thursday) that the United States has submitted a formal request for Switzerland to extradite seven Fifa officials arrested as part of a corruption investigation in Zurich in May.

Mixed Martial Arts
Business

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has appointed another senior judo official to its executive team, with newly-elected president Kerrith Brown stating he made the switch due to ideological differences with the leadership of judo at a European and international level.
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Business

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Multi-sport
Media

Eurosport CEO Peter Hutton has overseen dramatic change in just four months of stewardship of the Discovery-owned broadcaster. Matt Cutler travelled to Paris to ask him about the future ambitions of the company.

Football
Media

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into corruption in football is unprecedented and has presented the sports marketing industry with a number of complicated questions. We canvassed industry insiders to try to answer five of the most pressing questions.

Golf
Events

Golf’s European Tour has announced its players will compete for record prize money of €166m ($186.9m) in the 2015 Race to Dubai – an 18.5 per cent increase on last year.

Athletics
Business

Athletics is on the brink of new leadership for the first time in 16 years, with two Olympic and athletic legends – Sebastian Coe and Sergey Bubka - facing off in the battle to succeed Lamine Diack as president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations). We asked industry insiders who is odds on to win the sport’s biggest race.
Business

Owen Evans speaks to Gian-Franco Kasper, newly-appointed interim chairman of SportAccord, about his plan to dismantle the union in order to get it back into the Olympic Family.

Football

Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a six-year image rights deal with Mint Media, a company owned by Singaporean businessman Peter Lim.

Snooker
Business

The World Confederation of Billiard Sports (WCBS) has elected World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) chairman Jason Ferguson as its new president.

Football
Business

LaLiga, the new brand name for the Spanish Football League, has filed an appeal against the decision by the sport’s global governing body Fifa to switch the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from the summer to the winter.
Business

The main stakeholders of motorcycling championship MotoGP have agreed terms on a new plan that includes a series of measures designed to ensure the stability of the sport through until 2021.

Para Sport
Business

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has unveiled its latest four year Strategic Plan, outlining goals of consolidating the growth of the Paralympic Games, increasing global participation in para-sport and improving the recognition and value of the Paralympic brand.

Sailing

Swedish-based firm Aston Harald has struck a deal to acquire the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) sailing series.

Football
Business

Swiss authorities are looking into development grants made by Fifa in territories around the world as part of their investigation into football’s global governing body and its award of hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, according to Reuters.

Cricket
Business

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas as its president for the coming year.

German sportswear brand Adidas has announced plans to launch a new range of footwear and establish more grassroots programmes as part of a new strategy to defend its position in the global sports market.