North America

National Football League (NFL) commissioner Roger Goodell has stated the league will appeal a federal judge’s ruling in the so-called ‘deflategate’ scandal that has dominated US headlines over the summer in a bid to protect the “integrity of the game”.

Paul Dolan, the owner of the Cleveland Indians, is looking for a minority investment partner for the North American Major League Baseball franchise.

Los Angeles City Council has struck a deal with the US Olympic Committee (USOC) that will make the city the new 2024 Olympic Games bidder from the US pending final approval later today (Tuesday), according to multiple reports.

English Premiership rugby union team Harlequins has agreed a strategic partnership with the USA Rugby national governing body.

After adidas prised Houston Rockets star, James Harden, away from Nike for $200m last month, we look at whether it was enough to give the German giant the upper hand in its age-old rivalry with the Americans.

Owen Evans looks at how NBC’s billion dollar investment into Premier League rights will take shape over the next six years.

South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) president Juan Angel Napout has cast doubt over whether the United States will retain hosting rights to the planned Copa America Centenario tournament next year.

Elisha Chauhan asks whether opening and closing ceremonies for major sports events should be held outside the walls of a stadium in order to truly showcase host regions and their iconic landmarks.

I’ve been working on a football chant based on the fact that the club I support has a better wages-as-a-proportion-of-turnover ratio to that of all of our main rivals. It’s not quite there yet, so I can’t unveil it, but if it catches on there will be more to follow. Themes include match-day income, global media-rights revenue, and profit before player trading and amortisation in the most recent accounting period.

Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise the Los Angeles Dodgers has unveiled a list of 10 companies that will make up its inaugural accelerator programme.

Las Vegas and Quebec City remain in contention to potentially secure an NHL expansion franchise after the North American ice hockey league confirmed that both cities have advanced to the third and final stage of the process.

US-based one-day fantasy sports operator FanDuel has completed the acquisition of sports analytics platform NumberFire.

IPC Snowboard, the global governing body for para-snowboard, has included its first events in North America and Asia on its 2015-16 calendar.

Pay-television broadcaster BeIN Media Group has renewed exclusive rights in the US for the top divisions of football in Spain, Italy and France.

An independent audit of Boston’s failed bid plan for the 2024 Olympics has been released, detailing that the economic impact of the summer Games would have been lower than projected by bid backers and the costs would likely have been at least $970m (€880.2m) higher.

Tennis star Maria Sharapova has agreed an endorsement deal with credit and payment card company American Express.