North America

Larry Ellison, the billionaire owner of reigning America’s Cup champion Oracle Team USA, has revealed that he wants Hawaii to stage the next finale of the sailing showpiece and is keen to model the event on the Formula One motor-racing championship.

The official development competition of North American basketball league the NBA, the D-League, has expanded to a record 18 teams following the announcement that the New York Knicks have acquired a new franchise.

Motor racing series the World Endurance Championship (WEC) has appointed the Craig Company as its permanent representative in the North American territories.

NFL American football franchise the Buffalo Bills have cancelled their annual regular-season game at Toronto’s Rogers Centre and confirmed that the 2014 fixture will return to the team’s Ralph Wilson Stadium.

Barry Wilner looks at how MGM Resorts International’s proposed multi-purpose arena in Las Vegas will herald a new area for Sin City’s sports scene.

Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, has vetoed a controversial bill that could have led to American football’s NFL shifting the 2015 edition of Super Bowl from the US state.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at criticism of the scheduling of this season’s United States Grand Prix from a local Nascar race organiser, highlighting the difficulties involved in drawing up a calendar for a “world championship” versus that of a “domestic series”.

American football's NFL is coming under pressure to remove the 2015 Super Bowl from Arizona if a new state bill is introduced that would allow businesses to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered people due to religious beliefs.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has said it is keen to introduce a nations team event to the Alpine skiing programme at the 2018 winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Elisha Chauhan discovers why the Atlanta Braves have chosen to build their new stadium in the suburbs - the first time a Major League Baseball (MLB) team has done so since the turn of the millennium.

For the first time, NASCAR has become the majority owner and operator of a circuit, Iowa Speedway. Barry Wilner finds out what plans it has for the venue.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced that Chinese Taipei will host the inaugural U21 Baseball World Cup later this year.

Newly-appointed NBA commissioner Adam Silver has insisted that expanding the North American basketball league is not currently a priority, but has admitted that the introduction of jersey sponsorships will happen in the future.

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) has announced the schedule for the 2014-15 Big Wave World Tour (BWWT), with two new events added to the calendar in South Africa and Maui.

Scott Blackmun, the chief executive of the US Olympic Committee (USOC), has insisted that his organisation is focused on deciding whether to bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games, rather than weighing up whether a bid for the 2026 winter Games would be a better option.

The NHL has revealed that a final decision on whether to allow players from the North American ice hockey league to compete in the 2018 winter Olympic Games will be made in about six months’ time.