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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British basketball probes league chief over allegation of racism by referee

March 18, 2025

The British Basketball Federation is investigating social media posts made by the chair of Super League Basketball, Sheffield Sharks owner Vaughn Millette, in which he accused a referee of racism. The incendiary comments, made by Millette on Saturday night after the Sharks lost in SLB to Surrey 89ers, alleged that they had repeatedly received unjust [...]
PTO: Niche fund Cordillera pours £8m into triathlon

March 18, 2025

The Warner Bros Discovery-backed Professional Triathletes’ Organisation (PTO), which runs the elite T100 Triathlon World Tour, has attracted a $10m (£7.7m) injection from niche US fund Cordillera Investment Partners. San Francisco-based Cordillera has $1.6bn (£1.2bn) under management and specialises in “non-correlated assets” such as whiskey, boat marinas and carbon credits. It joins broadcaster Warner Bros [...]
Rory McIlroy hits $100m in PGA Tour prize money with Players win

March 17, 2025

Rory McIlroy has taken his PGA Tour prize money to $100m with a St Patrick’s Day victory at the Players’ Championship. The Northern Irishman’s second win at the prestigious tournament earned him $4.5m and took his total prize money from events on the tour to nine figures. McIlroy has also banked more than $50m on [...]
Michail Antonio swaps Ferrari for people carrier after career-threatening crash

March 17, 2025

West Ham striker Michail Antonio says he has sworn off sports cars after the December crash in which he cheated death and broke his femur in four places. Antonio, 34, needed surgery to pin his right leg back together after ploughing his Ferrari into a tree in Epping during stormy conditions more than three months [...]
Harry Redknapp and Robbie Fowler sign up for North v South football match

March 17, 2025

FA Cup winner Harry Redknapp and Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler have signed up as managers for an all-star North v South football match this summer in London. The match is scheduled to be played at Charlton Athletic’s ground The Valley on Sunday 1 June, the day after the men’s Champions League final. Organisers have promised [...]
Jack Draper up to career-high world ranking after Indian Wells win

March 17, 2025

British tennis No1 Jack Draper insists he is hungry for more success after climbing to a career-high world ranking of seventh with the biggest title of his career at Indian Wells. But the 23-year-old Londoner is refusing to set specific targets, reasoning that his first ATP Masters 1000 victory on Sunday showed that progress was [...]
RunGP founder Marcel Muenster: ‘Athletics needs more heroes’

March 17, 2025

Mo Farah may have signed up as the face of RunGP, but it was an encounter with another legend of long distance, Eliud Kipchoge, which helped entrepreneur Marcel Muenster formulate the new athletics series. After selling the healthcare business he founded, Doctor In Your Pocket, Muenster indulged his passion for road running by training like [...]
Ainslie heads 400 Olympians urging IOC to take fight to climate change

March 14, 2025

British sailing great Sir Ben Ainslie heads a list of 400 Olympians who have signed a letter urging the next president of the IOC to prioritise tackling climate change. Other signatories include swimmer Emma McKeon, Australia’s most decorated Olympian, Ferdinand Omanyala, Africa’s fastest sprinter, refugee boxer Cindy Ngamba and Paris 2024 surfing gold medallist Carissa [...]
Abramovich aide Granovskaia wins High Court battle over Chelsea transfer

March 14, 2025

Former Chelsea chief Marina Granovskaia, a close aide of Roman Abramovich, has won a High Court battle against football agent Saif Alrubie over a payment of more than £2m. Alrubie brought a lawsuit against Granovskaia, claiming that he was owed £2,182,782 in relation to Chelsea’s sale of defender Kurt Zouma to West Ham United in [...]
Will Man United’s stadium project really deliver £7.3bn a year to the UK?

March 14, 2025

It wasn’t just the big top design and Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s comparison’s with the Eiffel Tower that raised eyebrows when Manchester United revealed the latest plans for a new £2bn stadium to replace Old Trafford this week. The benefits forecast for the project, which includes the wider regeneration of the area, also set tongues wagging: [...]

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