The US sports betting market is developing less quickly than anticipated, but there should be a domino effect as more states legalise and profit from the activity, while the major leagues would be better advised to take advantage of data and sponsorship opportunities than seek a share of the revenues, according to industry observers.

The competition schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was formally announced today, with games organisers' taking into account the considerations of NBC, the rights-holder in USA, and concerns over the searing summer temperatures in the Japanese capital.

The International Cricket Council, the sport’s world governing body, has announced a five-year global partnership with Booking.com, in which the worldwide digital travel platform becomes the ICC’s exclusive accommodations and attractions booking partner at all ICC events.

OC Sport, the international events company, has withdrawn from the organisation of the Extreme Sailing Series after 12 years, citing external “commercial hits” which meant that the inshore circuit was no longer viable, but it could yet live on via a management buyout.

Moves to make it compulsory for matches from Austrian soccer's top-flight Bundesliga to be shown on free-to-air television in the country are a step closer to fruition following a high-level government meeting yesterday.

An invitation to tender for multi-platform media rights across sub-Saharan Africa to the 2019 Fifa Women's World Cup in France has been launched by soccer's governing body.

Nordic Entertainment Group, a spin-off of Scandinavia's Modern Times Group, has agreed a sub-licensing deal in Denmark with YouSee, the internet and television brand owned by telecoms company TDC, for rights to English soccer's Premier League.

Germany's Bundesliga has its sights on becoming the number one soccer league in China, and will take a giant stride on that path when it officially opens its Beijing office on Monday, Robert Klein, chief executive of Bundesliga International, the worldwide commercial rights sales arm of the German top flight, has told Sportcal.

Chris Kermode appears to have fallen victim to player power after the ATP, the governing body for men’s professional tennis, announced that his contract as executive chairman and president will not be renewed when his current term expires at the end of 2019.

The Spanish professional soccer industry generated €15.7 billion ($17.9 billion) in economic activity in the 2016-17 season, according to a newly published report.