Scotland

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has taken the “extraordinary and unanimous step” of awarding its 2017 World Championships to Glasgow following the Scottish city’s failed bid for the same year’s Sudirman Cup national mixed team competition.

Golf’s European Tour and two-time Ryder Cup player Paul Lawrie have launched a new matchplay tournament.

Organisers of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have reported that the cost of the multi-sport event will come in at £25m (€32m/$40m) under budget.

Ryder Cup organisers have launched an online service dedicated to guarding against ticket fraud ahead of the 2014 edition of the golf tournament, which gets underway at Gleneagles, Scotland on September 23.

Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has promised to “safeguard” the interests of Scottish athletes ahead of the 2016 summer Olympic Games should the country vote in favour of independence.

The Scottish city of Glasgow has followed up its successful Commonwealth Games by securing the hosting rights for the 2018 European Aquatics Championships.

Kingsbarns Golf Links in Fife, Scotland has been selected to host the 2017 Women’s British Open.

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, which concluded yesterday (Sunday), have been hailed as the best in the multi-sport event’s 84-year history by the outgoing chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation.

Glasgow 2014 organisers have said the Scottish city’s staging of the Commonwealth Games will be the first to be delivered within budget for a generation.

Owen Evans looks at the rationale behind UK telecoms operator BT’s multi-million pound naming rights deal with the home of Scottish rugby, Murrayfield.

Former Uefa general secretary and Scottish Football Association (SFA) chief executive David Taylor has died at the age of 60.

British tennis star Andy Murray has agreed an exclusive three-year partnership with savings and investments group Standard Life ahead of the defence of his Wimbledon men’s singles title.

Glasgow 2014 has announced that tickets for this summer’s Commonwealth Games will go back on sale on May 21 and will be released over three days as part of a new phased approach.

A ticketing website for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has been shut down by the event’s organisers following a flood of complaints from members of the public.

Glasgow 2014 chief executive David Grevemberg has moved to apologise for the “totally unacceptable” failings with the ticketing system for the Commonwealth Games which prompted a flood of complaints from customers on Monday.

Glasgow has become the latest city to submit a bid to host the International Skating Union’s 2017 World Figure Skating Championships.