North America

The Sun Belt Conference, Cox Sports Television and Comcast Sports Southeast have agreed a one-year extension of the Sun Belt Network.

Recently retired David Beckham is in preliminary discussions to purchase a Major League Soccer franchise.

Major League Soccer has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft to promote its Windows 8 platform.

DirecTV Sports and its Root Sports regional sports network has agreed a multi-year rights deal with the Mountain West US college sports conference.

National Football League (NFL) side the Minnesota Vikings have unveiled preliminary designs for their new stadium, due to be opened by 2016.

Scott Blackmun, the chief executive officer of the US Olympic Committee (USOC), has revealed that the organisation is in talks with 10 cities over a potential bid for the 2024 Olympic Games.

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) has announced the appointment of former Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) senior executive Tim Leiweke as its new president and CEO.

The US government filed court documents yesterday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, according to Reuters.

Citi has extended its deal as the official bank partner of the US Olympic and Paralympic teams through to 2016.

National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner David Stern has said a decision over the future of the Sacramento Kings will be made next month, admitting the process has been the most complex of its kind in the league’s history.

Philadelphia has been announced as the host city for the 2013 edition of the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards, following in the footsteps of London in 2012 and Cape Town in 2011.

Ohio University’s MBA and Master of Sports Administration has retained its crown as the best postgraduate sports course in the world.

Real Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan and Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy will participate in a new eight-team tournament that will take place in the US in July, it was confirmed yesterday.

The Boston Marathon, one of the most prominent mass-participation running events on the planet, was struck by a terrorist attack yesterday that killed at least three people and injured more than 140.

The National Football League announced yesterday that it had altered in-stadium regulations in an effort to boost atmosphere at venues as it was revealed that 98% of tickets for the 2013 regular-season had already been sold.

A proposal to use taxpayers’ money to part-finance the US$350 million redevelopment of the Miami Dolphins’ National Football League Sun Life Stadium is set to be put to a public referendum.