Covid-19

Swimming
Events

Fina, the global governing body for aquatic sports, has moved this year’s World Swimming Championships (25m) in Abu Dhabi to 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Football
Governance

The Football Association of Thailand has announced that the country's top football league, Thai League 1, will restart on September 12, 2020, and the season will run until May 15, 2021
Multi-sport
Events

Thomas Bach has confirmed that the Tokyo Summer Olympics will be cancelled if they cannot be held in 2021
Football
Events

Philadelphia Union midfielder Alejandro Bedoya has compared Major League Soccer's reported plans to restart the season in Orlando, Florida, this summer amid the global Covid-19 pandemic to living in "luxurious …
Football
Governance

The Chinese Football Association has drawn up guidelines to counter the Covid-19 threat as it eyes a late June or early July restart for the 2020 season of the Chinese Super League
Baseball
Events

There have been six positive Covid-19 tests from English Premier League players or club staff after the league's first phase of testing - Sky Sports
American Football
Governance

The Canadian Football League is now hoping to stage a "shortened but meaningful season" from September amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, while the traditional Grey Cup Festival format has been changed
Bowling
Events

The Professional Bowlers Association has announced it will make a live competition return this summer in a series of events that will be broadcast on the Fox family of networks
Motorsport
Sports Betting

IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, is to begin offering bookmakers a virtual sports betting product for the Nascar US stock car racing series, along with distributing the international…
Events

The Commonwealth Games Federation has published an in-depth report which claims that its recent events have offered an economic impact of between £800m ($980m/€897m) and £1.2bn ($1.4bn/€1.3bn)
Football
Events

Major League Soccer has been forced to call off three major tentpole events involving Liga MX clubs this year as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic
Cricket
Governance

The chairman of the Australian Cricketers Association has condemned Cricket Australia’s cost-cutting in response to the Covid-19 pandemic as "disastrous" for the sport.
Events

The president of the German football federation and the chairman of Bayern Munich are proposing a salary cap for professional football in Europe
Football
Media

ESPN Deportes will broadcast some games in Costa Rica's top-flight Liga FPD, which has become the first professional soccer league in the Americas to resume action amid the global Covid-19 pandemic
Horse Racing
Events

The Belmont Stakes has been rescheduled for June 20 and will take place without spectators amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, the New York Racing Association has announced
Multi-sport
Finance & Law

David Griffiths, senior member of the sports and entertainment team at Miller Insurance, on the challenges presented by playing sport behind closed doors.
Football
Finance & Law

Behind closed doors matches are not a panacea for the impact of Covid-19, nor are they always better than not playing at all.
Football
Events

The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has concluded the 2019-20 Premiership season, with relegated Heart of Midlothian still hoping for a reprieve amid potential reconstruction plans for the…