Las Vegas trip more than a safe bet for Super League rugby March 1, 2025 This weekend the Super League makes its debut stateside, with a regular season fixture between Wigan Warriors and Warrington Wolves taking place at the Allegiant Stadium on Saturday. Like many sports before it, the move is designed to showcase the game on the global stage as part of its long-term growth into new markets. And [...]
Brighton and Hove Albion: Seagulls post £73.3m profit February 28, 2025 Brighton and Hove Albion posted a profit of £73.3m for their 2023/24 season after their Europa League appearance kept them in the black. The pre-tax profit follows positive accounts a year prior, where the club made a profit of £130.7m. A significant chunk of the earnings Brighton, whose chairman is Tony Bloom, made came from [...]
Chelsea FC : Abramovich ally Granovskaia at High Court over Alrubie dispute February 28, 2025 Former Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia is at London's High Court today as she seeks to pause a civil claim against her by football agent Saif Alrubie
FA Cup prize money: What non-league clubs would spend £2m on February 28, 2025 This weekend the fifth round of the FA Cup will hand out a good amount of prize money. But for the non-league clubs out of the draw, where would that money have been spent? Just the 16 teams remain in this weekend’s FA Cup fifth round, and there will be no representation from below the [...]
London 2012 Team GB boxer becomes Reform UK mayoral candidate February 28, 2025 London 2012 Olympic gold medallist boxer Luke Campbell will stand for Reform UK in the upcoming Hull and East Yorkshire mayoral election. Campbell, bantamweight Olympic champion in London, is the sixth candidate to be declared for the May election. In boxing bantamweight is for fighters who are 51kg to 54kg and all four world title [...]
Why rugby union should get its own Riyadh Season event February 28, 2025 One gripe I have with the 2025 Six Nations is the second rest week; it stifles interest and really damages the flow of the rugby tournament. As least, then, I had spare time to watch Chris Eubank Jr slap Conor Benn with an egg during their face-off ahead of their bout at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. [...]
Google ‘profiting from crime’ says Spanish football boss Tebas February 27, 2025 Spanish football league LaLiga says it has taken legal action against Google over the piracy of its media rights, accusing the tech giant of cooperating with and profiting from crime. LaLiga president Javier Tebas said Google housed urls and apps which offer pirated broadcasts of its matches and allowed criminals to make money from the [...]
Trump: 2026 Fifa World Cup co-host Canada hits out at 51st State jibe February 27, 2025 The manager of America’s 2026 Fifa World Cup co-host Canada has hit out at President Donald Trump over claims The Great White North should be the US’ 51st State. Trump previously said: “If people wanted to play the game right, it would be 100% certain that they’d become a state.” Ontario Premier Doug Ford hit [...]
Dazn’s French football row ‘a warning signal’ for other leagues February 27, 2025 European football leagues have been warned off selling their media rights to sports streaming platform Dazn by credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS. It comes amid a legal row between Dazn and French football chiefs over the rights to Ligue 1 due to lower than expected take-up of its subscriptions from consumers. Morningstar DBRS said partnering [...]
WTA Tour hires London agency Nomad Studio for ‘bold’ rebrand February 27, 2025 The WTA Tour has engaged London design agency Nomad Studio, whose clients include the Premier League and Rolls Royce, to launch a wide-ranging rebrand today. The rebrand of the women’s tennis tour includes a new logo, bright green and purple palettes, and slogan – “Rally the world” – designed to be “bigger, bolder and built [...]