JD Sports: Retailer partners with UFC ahead of London Fight Night March 17, 2025 UK retailer and FTSE 100 giant JD Sports has partnered with fighting organisation UFC in a deal that begins this weekend at London’s Fight Night. The Manchester-headquartered brand forms half of a European partnership, which will see it become a key partner across UFC despite it issuing a profit warning in January. JD Sports forecast [...]
Investec Champions Cup Barometer: Itoje for British and Irish Lions captain? March 17, 2025 In the lead up to the 2024-25 Investec Champions Cup round of 16, City A.M. has put together a barometer in partnership with Investec to assess which teams are hot – and which are not – ahead of April’s knockouts. Player of the week: Maro Itoje, Saracens For a long time no other name but [...]
Boxing nearing Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games inclusion March 17, 2025 Boxing’s once uncertain Olympic future appears to have been resolved with the sport set to feature in the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. The International Olympic Committee itself organised the sport’s competitions at the last two Games – in Tokyo in 2021 and Paris in 2024 – after governance issues relating to the International Boxing [...]
No10: Government ‘absolutely committed’ to independent football regulator March 17, 2025 The government has insisted it remains “absolutely committed” to the incoming football regulator despite chancellor Rachel Reeves’ desire to slash bureaucratic bodies. Reports suggested that plans to get rid of a number of quangos, as well as Reeves’ opinion that regulators are “too slow to get things done”, could have resulted in the Football Governance [...]
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 [...]
Carabao Cup prize money: How does it compare to the FA Cup? March 16, 2025 On Sunday at Wembley Stadium one of Liverpool or Newcastle United will pick up the first major trophy of the English football season: the Carabao Cup. Liverpool have won the League Cup on 10 occasions, two more than any other team, while Newcastle’s best finishes came in both 1976 and 2023 when they finished second. [...]