North America
Business

North America’s Major League Baseball has agreed a deal with the Australian Baseball Federation to create a new league in the country that will serve as a pathway for players from Australia, Japan and Korea to break into the professional game.
Business

Atlanta Motor Speedway has revealed next season it will host only one of the two NASCAR races it has been staging since 1960 in what seems to be the first of a number of changes to the North American stock car racing schedule in 2011.
Business

The group led by Hall of Fame pitcher and Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan has won the auction to buy the bankrupt Major League Baseball (MLB) team after a 10-hour bidding war that went into the early hours of Thursday.
Events

The US National Football League will this month in New Orleans open its first-ever store exclusively targeted at female football fans, the NFL Shop for Women.
Business

The News Corp media group, owned by magnate Rupert Murdoch, is not going to bid for bankrupt Major League Baseball team Texas Rangers at an auction to be held today in Fort Worth, Texas.
Stadia

The US National Football League (NFL) is pondering the adoption of a ground-breaking technology that would see balls holding a chip that could send alerts to an official’s watch once they cross lines.

Two-time National Basketball Association (NBA) Most Valuable Player LeBron James has taken out a full-page ad in yesterday’s edition of his hometown’s Akron Beacon Journal to thank fans for their support during his time playing in nearby Cleveland for the Cavaliers franchise.
Business

Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp is working on a bid for Major League Baseball team Texas Rangers at an auction scheduled to take place tomorrow.
Business

John Brody has left his post as Major League Baseball (MLB) senior vice president of corporate sales and marketing to lead global sports and entertainment agency Wasserman Media Group sales division and develop new business.
Business

A group led by English real state developer and former official with Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur Paul Kemsley has acquired the name of the New York Cosmos, the flagship team in the extinct North American Soccer League in the 70s.
Business

The North American Cypher Group, has pulled out of the race for the 13th spot on the Formula One grid next season due to lack of funding.
Business

Sports and entertainment agency IMG announced yesterday it had reached an agreement to acquire North Carolina-based marketing and broadcast agency ISP Sports.
Media

Portuguese sports broadcaster Sport TV is to launch a channel in the US and Canada to cater for Portuguese-speaking audiences.
Business

Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, was cleared to bid for Major League Baseball's bankrupt Texas Rangers, his lawyer said yesterday.

English Premier League club Manchester United and professional golfer Tiger Woods are the world’s most valuable team and athletes, according to Forbes magazine’s latest ranking.
Business

The North American National Hockey League (NHL) has rejected Russian Ilya Kovalchuk’s 17-year, $102-million contract with the New Jersey Devils, which was going to be the longest in the league’s history.
Media

Global apparel brand adidas is to move its global ad account from the 180 Amsterdam agency to Canadian-based Sid Lee, who has held the adidas Originals line account since 2008 and won several other parts of the company’s business since then.
Business

Financial services firm JPMorgan is suing Major League Baseball team Texas Rangers for taking over the lease of its Arlington stadium, Rangers Ballpark, before filing for bankruptcy.