The doping scandal has dragged the Olympic brand through the mud – and making it shine again will be no easy task.
- Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
New formats, new nations, a new UEFA president and the legacy of a multi-venue event in four years time – Euro 2024 could be a very different beast.
It costs multiple millions to sponsor a global sports event. Why bother when non-sponsors cleverly associate themselves for next to nothing?
How will the football influence the vote? Here are the possibilities …
If there was a Brexit smaller clubs lower down the league structure would likely struggle to get the best talent.
Where did it all go wrong for Aston Villa?
Big name signings, inflated wages, high hopes of success – welcome to China’s Super League.
FIFA stands on the cusp of a new era. Here are the chances of the men who want to take on the challenge.
The threat of millennial consumers to American football is no illusion.
Why Adidas pulled its sponsorship of the IAAF, the governing body of world athletics.
Allegations have been made about throwing games in tennis – but what would lead a player to agree to swing a game?
How athletics can and must deal with the doping scandal that threatens the sport’s legitimacy.
As football grapples with numerous scandals, the Euro 2016 draw brings a welcome focus on the game itself rather than on the intrigue of its boardrooms.
The beautiful game, the global game, the people’s game – football. This great sport, belongs to everyone and it unites us all.
Is it better for a club to sack their manager now or wait until later?
For Bayern Munich, helping refugees isn’t simply a moral obligation it’s good CSR.
What does Gazprom hope to achieve with its deep and generous relationship with football?
These surely are the best of times for the 20 clubs competing in the Premier League
Whether through US corporatism or the Wiggo effect in the UK, Middle-Aged Men in Lycra are spending big on bikes and bib-shorts.
The race to become the new FC Barcelona president reaches a climax this weekend, and there is more at stake than football.
Cycling’s biggest race delivers speed, pain and danger to boost its popularity and profitability. And we wonder why doping leaves such a long shadow.
A look at some of the tournament’s revenues and how it compares with the other grand slams.
How a US-Qatar F1 takeover will take the business up a gear.
Africa is perfectly capable of competing with the rest of the world on fields and tracks, and in organisational terms too.
Blatter has resigned on his own terms, at his own pace. FIFA is not saved.
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