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The Week in Sportbiz: Uncle Sam is coming for cricket, Nigel Wray bets on fitness and sports reveal trans policies

October 16, 2020

Not content with trying to carve up the Premier League, Americans now have another English sacred cow in their sights: cricket. The game’s Stateside governing body today announced ambitious plans to become a major mainstream sport across the Atlantic – and achieve full member status with the International Cricket Council within a decade. USA Cricket [...]
Sport’s governance problem: Scandal beckons without more professionalism and transparency

October 15, 2020

As recent headlines attest, serious problems of governance can be found all across the sports sector. Gathering extensive empirical research for our new book on the role of independent directors, we found problems with a lack of accountability, unclear governance and a lack of skills and experience to sort out the mess. We consulted directors [...]
Premier League teams reject controversial Project Big Picture reforms

October 14, 2020

Premier League clubs have renounced controversial plans for English football’s biggest shake-up in almost 30 years. ‘Project Big Picture’ proposed reducing the number of teams in the top division and giving the six biggest clubs sweeping powers in exchange for a major package of financial aid for the wider game affected by Covid-19. But clubs [...]
This is Me is committed to changing attitudes around mental health

October 14, 2020 | Sponsored

This is Me is committed to changing attitudes around mental health and strives to create healthier and more inclusive workplaces by reducing stigma, dispelling myths, and improving employee wellbeing for good. It does this through three key strands – This is Me Storytelling, where organisations encourage their employees to open the conversation around mental health by [...]
The arts are not an optional extra, they are the life and soul of our nation

October 8, 2020

If at first you don’t succeed, retrain and move into a more viable vocation. That was the advice of the chancellor this week with regards to the impossible position faced by artists, musicians and actors who have seen their livelihoods decimated since the start of the Covid crisis. ITV may have later clarified that Rishi Sunak’s [...]
West Ham install ‘Covid tunnels’ at training ground – could fans be next?

October 7, 2020

Premier League club West Ham United have installed sanitisation tunnels at their academy training ground to protect staff and players. The tunnel operates initially as a temperature scanner before misting individuals with a controlled, odourless, water-based solution to disable bacteria and viruses. Taking just three to five seconds in total, the technology could in theory [...]
Gunnersaurus could be saved from redundancy after Mesut Ozil offers to pay mascot’s wages

October 6, 2020

Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has offered to “reimburse the full salary” of the club’s mascot Gunnersaurus just 24 hours after the footballing dinosaur was revealed to be at risk of redundancy. Tweeting on Tuesday, the German international said: “I was so sad that Jerry Quy aka our famous & loyal mascot @Gunnersaurus and integral part [...]
London Marathon 2020: Ethiophia’s Shura Kitata wins as favourite Kipchoge suffers first defeat since 2013.

October 4, 2020

London Marathon 2020: Ethiophia's Shura Kitata wins as favourite Kipchoge fininshes eighth
Racing League set for Newcastle opener in July 2021

October 1, 2020

The team-based horse racing initiative known as the Racing League will kick off at Newcastle Racecourse on Thursday 29 July 2021, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has confirmed. The ground-breaking league format, which has a guaranteed £1.8m in prize money, is aiming to bring new innovation to horse racing as well as increasing engagement and [...]
Creating a healthy City with The Lord Mayor’s Appeal

September 30, 2020 | Sponsored

The Lord Mayor’s Appeal’s This is Me initiative is focused on creating a City that is healthy. It is committed to changing attitudes around mental health and strives to create healthier and more inclusive workplaces by reducing stigma, dispelling myths, and improving employee wellbeing for good. This year we are marking World Mental Health Day on [...]