By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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BBC wins the race for London Marathon broadcast rights for another five years

June 20, 2022

The BBC will broadcast the London Marathon for a further five years after extending its long-standing rights agreement with the race’s organisers. The new deal begins with this year’s edition of the 26-mile race, which is due to take place on 2 October, and runs until 2026, marking 45 years of live coverage on the [...]
Bronte Law wins battle of the Brits in sizzling Aramco Team Series London

June 19, 2022

England’s Bronte Law savoured the sweet taste of home success after sinking a monster eagle putt at the last hole to snatch the individual crown at the Aramco Team Series London on Saturday. After three days of intense competition in stifling conditions at Centurion Club more in keeping with the Sotogrande or Jeddah legs of [...]
Paris Saint-Germain exec blasts LaLiga: ‘The last person we’ll take lessons from is Javier Tebas’

June 16, 2022

Paris Saint-Germain executives have issued a withering retort to LaLiga president Javier Tebas after the Spanish football chief accused the French club of breaking financial rules. LaLiga announced on Tuesday that it has lodged a formal complaint about Qatar-owned PSG’s spending with European football’s governing body Uefa. It follows PSG retaining the services of superstar [...]
Tennis can conquer sport if tours and Grand Slams unite, says Federer agent Tony Godsick

June 16, 2022

Tennis could “conquer the sport world” if the ATP and WTA Tours and the four Grand Slams set aside their differences, says Roger Federer’s agent Tony Godsick. Steps to pool the commercial operations of the men’s and women’s circuits were proposed last year in a move that would see private equity take a stake in [...]
HSBC becomes Emma Raducanu’s eighth blue chip sponsor on eve of Wimbledon

June 16, 2022

HSBC has become the latest blue chip brand to join British tennis star Emma Raducanu’s stable of sponsors. Raducanu, who shot to fame by winning the US Open in September, has agreed a four-year with the international banking group. “To partner with HSBC is so natural for me having grown up playing in the HSBC [...]
Tinkering did for England in the Nations League but no need for a culture war over Southgate

June 15, 2022

It is as well that Gareth Southgate has always seemed acutely aware of the thin ice on which England managers exist, given the reaction that greeted Tuesday’s defeat to Hungary. The shock 4-0 loss, England’s heaviest in a home fixture for more 90 years, prompted boos from the Molineux crowd and, laughably, even the odd [...]
Yorkshire charged with bringing cricket into disrepute after racism investigation

June 15, 2022

Yorkshire County Cricket Club and several unnamed individuals have been charged following an investigation into allegations of racism and their handling of the claims. The charges have been brought by the England and Wales Cricket board and relate to bringing the game into disrepute and breaching anti-discrimination rules. Governing body the ECB said it would [...]
Apple makes biggest sports rights bet so far on 10-year, £2bn Major League Soccer deal

June 15, 2022

Apple has agreed to pay $2.5bn (£2.1bn) for the global streaming rights to Major League Soccer for the next 10 years. The deal with the top division of men’s football in the US and Canada represents the tech giant’s biggest investment in sports rights so far. Apple, which bought a package of Major League Baseball [...]
Lydia Hall interview: Welsh golfer on her Amazon delivery sideline and the Aramco Team Series

June 14, 2022

Lydia Hall spent much of the pandemic delivering parcels but now the Welsh golfer is enjoying improved returns on the Ladies European Tour, thanks in no small part to the Aramco Team Series. When Covid-19 shut down much of sport in early 2020, Hall was forced to put her clubs to one side and turn [...]
George Blackshaw interview: Amputee Golfer on learning from the pros at the Aramco Team Series

June 14, 2022

The Aramco Team Series might boast some of the best women’s golfers in the world but that doesn’t mean that it remains roped off to non-professionals. George Blackshaw, known to thousands of followers on social media as the Amputee Golfer, was one of those who got the chance to play alongside the elite at the [...]

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