Jonathan Rest

The 2026 Tour de France delivered exactly the kind of spectacle that makes cycling’s underlying business problem so frustrating: enormous audiences, huge emotional investment from fans and a sport…

The Premier League’s longest-running front-of-shirt sponsorship is to continue into the next decade, after Arsenal FC and Dubai-based airline Emirates struck a new deal until 2033. The agreement…

LIV Golf has been thrown a financial lifeline with commissioner Scott O’Neil announcing a signed term sheet with a new lead investor that he says will carry the breakaway tour through 2030.

Poland’s men’s ice hockey and basketball national teams and its top tennis players are set for broader TV exposure of their performances at home after expansion of the country’s listed events…

Benfica has called on the Portuguese Parliament to suspend the current process for centralising the sale of Primeira Liga media rights, creating yet another hurdle for the long-running project.

The national cricket bodies of Scotland and the Netherlands have accused the ICC of steamrolling a major change to the 2027 men’s 50-over World Cup format without proper consultation.

The Los Angeles Lakers is being sold for a staggering $12.5bn (€10.8bn), a little over a year since Mark Walter agreed to buy the franchise for a then-world record $10bn.

The Curling Group has struck five-year rights deals in the sport’s most prominent market, Canada, for two premium properties, the Grand Slam of Curling and nascent Rock League. Sportsnet…

Australia’s National Rugby League has made its long-expected investment offer to its English counterpart Super League. Rugby League Commercial, the joint venture between Super League and the Rugby…

A consortium led by British businessman Amit Bhatia that includes the founders of Amazon and Facebook among its investors has agreed to buy a large minority stake in Liverpool FC, believed to be in…