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Video game developer Electronic Arts has partnered with American football league the NFL to launch a new competitive gaming and esports event in what is claimed to be the biggest commitment to the sector by a US professional sports league.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld life bans for Papa Massata Diack, the son of former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack, and the governing body’s ex-treasurer, Valentin Balakhnichev, yesterday (Monday).

As the Premier League season starts without a betting partner after the competition cancelled its deal with Ladbrokes, SportBusiness International asked a series of experts as to whether sport and gambling are moving closer together or further apart.

The Formula One motor-racing championship has entered the competitive gaming arena with the launch of its own esports series.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has today (Monday) confirmed it will stage a Twenty20 series against a World XI in Lahore next month, ahead of the potential for further games in the country against Sri Lanka and the West Indies.

The International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) has enhanced its partnership with RedTorch in order for the agency to provide full digital support to its World Series.

In the fifth of a series of articles looking at the impact of Los Angeles’ decision to accept the 2028 edition of the Olympic Games, Ben Cronin assesses how the award may affect the programme and sports featured.

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is set to switch to a multi-Games model of marketing its sponsorship and broadcast rights, as part of major changes made under its CGF Partnerships venture.

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has unveiled a 10-year global strategy for its future development, as Taipei prepares to host the 2017 summer Universiade.

Global performance management company Nielsen Sports has today (Thursday) launched a new division that will analyse and identify opportunities in the esports market.

The Committee of Administrators, established earlier this year by India’s Supreme Court to oversee the implementation of new governance rules at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has asked for three of the sporting governing body’s office bearers to be removed.

Pat Hickey has today (Monday) said he looks forward to resuming his international Olympic duties after stating that the report by former Irish High Court judge, Justice Carroll Moran, into the ticketing scandal surrounding the 2016 summer Olympic Games clears him of any wrongdoing.

Sebastian Coe, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has maintained that Doha will host the 2019 World Athletics Championships after comments from Ed Warner, chairman of the London 2017 Championships, that the decision to stage the next edition of the event in Qatar was a “really strange choice”.

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has proposed nine new members for election at the IOC Session in Lima next month, with the presidents of Fifa, football’s world governing body, and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) snubbed for the second year running.

With governments, manufacturers and consumers opening up to electric, motorsport is already preparing for a post-petrol and diesel age. Andy Fry reports.

The European Club Association (ECA) is set to have a new leader for the first time since its formation in 2008 after Karl-Heinz Rummenigge today (Thursday) said he will not run for re-election as chairman of the football body next month.