North America

Multi-sport
Events

The International Olympic Committee has reached an outline host city agreement with the Los Angeles bid committee that will allow the US city to host the 2028 Olympics and leave the path clear for the 2024 Games to take place in Paris.

Football
Business

Erick Thohir, general partner of D.C. United, has denied reports that he is looking to sell his majority stake in the North American Major League Soccer franchise, but has said he is keen to attract additional investment into the team.

Multi-sport
Events

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has said he expects a resolution over the destinations of the 2024 and 2028 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games this week, adding that a deal is “very, very close”.

Football
Business

Goals Soccer Centres has entered into a joint venture with City Football Group (CFG), the ownership group of English Premier League club Manchester City, to bolster its business in the North American market.

Football
Business

North America’s Major League Soccer (MLS) has announced that all of its games will incorporate a video assistant referee (VAR) from August 5.

Squash
Events

The World Squash Federation’s (WSF) men’s World Team Championship will head to the United States for the first time in 2019 after Washington, DC was announced as the host city for the event.
Other

Blue Star Sports has continued its rapid development in the sports technology sector by making four more acquisitions.

Tennis
Business

The US Open has further strengthened its position as the most lucrative of the four grand slam tennis tournaments after it was announced that the total prize money for this year’s event will stand at $50.4m (€43.7m).

Basketball
Business

The Houston Rockets NBA basketball franchise has been put up for sale by owner Leslie Alexander.

Ice Hockey

NHL ice hockey franchise the Carolina Hurricanes is reportedly the target of a takeover bid by Chuck Greenberg, the former chief executive of Major League Baseball team the Texas Rangers.

Motorsport
Business

North American stock car-racing series Nascar has promoted Brent Dewar from the position of chief operating officer to president.

Daily fantasy sports (DFS) companies DraftKings and FanDuel have scrapped their merger plans in the wake of opposition from the US government and will now seek to pursue their own development.

American Football
Business

The Green Bay Packers have seen their net income boosted by franchise relocation fees as the NFL American football franchise’s annual financial results lifted the lid on the payments the Rams, Chargers and Raiders will have to make for their moves to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, respectively.

Esports
Other

US video game developer Activision Blizzard has announced the sale of the first seven franchises for its new Overwatch League, with high-profile sports executives Robert Kraft and Jeff Wilpon among the owners of the new teams, which will be based in the US, China and South Korea.

American Football
Business

32 Equity, the investment arm of the NFL American football league, has made a financial commitment to Blue Star Sports, a global provider of sports technology.

Boxing
Events

The heavily-hyped crossover fight between undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor will remain at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas after the Big3 basketball league said it received an offer it could not refuse to switch its season-ending event to another venue in the US city.

Multi-sport
Business

French President Emmanuel Macron and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti have labelled International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach’s proposal for a simultaneous award of hosting rights for the 2024 and 2028 summer Olympic Games as a “win-win-win” as IOC members prepare to debate the move later today (Tuesday).

Baseball
Business

Major League Baseball (MLB) has said it is targeting regular-season games in London for the 2019 campaign after it staged an event in the English capital yesterday (Tuesday).