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Boston 2024 has confirmed the anticipated appointment of Steve Pagliuca, co-owner of NBA basketball franchise Boston Celtics, as chairman of its bid to host the Olympics

Riccardo Silva, president and founder of the MP & Silva agency, has teamed up with Italian football legend Paolo Maldini to form Miami FC, which will debut in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from the 2016 season.

A future regular-season NFL American football game in Mexico or Germany, along with the potential staging of the Pro Bowl in Rio de Janeiro, has been discussed by the league’s franchise owners.

The NFL American football league has compiled a shortlist of four cities to host the 2019 and 2020 editions of its Super Bowl end-of-season showpiece.

The United States has secured its latest high-profile rugby union event with the announcement that New Zealand’s seven-time Super Rugby champion the Crusaders will face leading English Premiership club Saracens at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on August 1.

The US Olympic Committee (USOC), Boston 2024 and the US city’s Mayor, Martin Walsh, have moved to maintain its bid for the Olympic Games remains on course, amid mounting speculation concerning the viability of the project.

Boston’s troubled status as the United States’ candidate city for the 2024 Olympic Games has suffered a further blow after a senior US Olympic Committee (USOC) official cast doubt over whether it will ultimately be put forward by the organisation.

Advertising and public relations giant WPP is launching a new sports marketing agency through GroupM, its global media investment management company.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has granted its 2018 World Triathlon Grand Final to the Gold Coast and assigned its inaugural 2017 Multisport World Championships Festival to the Canadian city of Penticton, while it has become the latest sports federation to cut its ties to SportAccord.

Cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne are reportedly planning to launch a global Twenty20 league featuring former international players.

US sports technology, data and content company Stats has completed its latest acquisition with a deal for baseball and ice hockey specialists TVT Video Technology (TVTI).

US college sport conference the Pac-12 has announced it is to host a first-of-its-kind, regular season basketball game in China as part of its Globalisation Initiative programme.

The New England Patriots and Tom Brady have signalled their intention to contest the National Football League’s (NFL) decision to issue a record-equalling fine to the team and a four-game suspension to its superstar quarterback over the ‘deflategate’ scandal.

Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca is set to be named chairman of the US city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics Games as part of an organisational reshuffle designed to get the effort back on course, according to multiple media reports.

Japan-based advertising and public relations company Dentsu has announced that its Dentsu Sports subsidiary has agreed a deal to acquire a 33.3 per cent stake in US full-service sports agency Athletes First.

Ohio University’s Master of Sports Administration programme has today been named the best postgraduate sports management course in the world by SportBusiness International for the third time.