Tyler Everett

The conflict between the Euroleague and FIBA over control of club basketball in Europe dates back to last summer, but FIBA Europe’s latest move brought it to another level. When it was recently announced that eight countries had been banned from EuroBasket 2017, with six more warned, top national...

The story of football’s winter transfer window was unquestionably the number of top players lured to the Chinese Super League by lucrative contracts. By the time the CSL’s winter transfer period concluded on Feb. 26, the league had drawn Brazilian ALEX TEIXEIRA from Shakhtar Donetsk (Jiangsu Suning)...

The third annual Rio Open, which was held from Feb. 15-21 at the city's Jockey Club Brasileiro, marked the most commercially successful edition of the tournament. Sponsorship of the event, the only combined ATP World Tour 500 and WTA Int'l event in South America, has increased 43% since the...

UEFA Secretary General GIANNI INFANTINO on Friday took over as president of FIFA, replacing SEPP BLATTER . Infantino defeated  SHEIKH SALMAN BIN EBRAHIM AL KHALIFA  by a vote of 115-88 in the second round of balloting. The other candidates in the five-man...

TOM ELSDEN  is a sports strategy manager for digital marketing agency Mailman. Elsden and his colleagues at the Shanghai-based agency have seen Brazilian footballers play a prominent role in the Chinese Super League in recent seasons, with Guangzhou Evergrande just one example of a top CSL team with...

The BBC and BuzzFeed News on Jan. 18 revealed evidence of widespread suspected match-fixing in int’l tennis. The report, which claimed that 16 top-50 players were suspected of throwing matches over the last decade, immediately made headlines around the globe. No suspected players were named, because, in the BBC’s...

CESAR VILLARES is the co-founder of Brazilian sports marketing agency Go4it. He and  MARC LEMANN  launched the Rio de Janeiro-based agency in October. Along with Villares and Lemann, Go4it's other execs are Head of Financial  BRUNO MOURA , Planing and Communications Dir FERNANDA LOBÃO  and Head...

The biggest news in Spain was the long awaited passing of the Real Decreto on April 30 , which evens out the distribution of revenue from TV contracts. In January, Chinese businessman Wang Jianlin paid around €45M for a 20% stake in La Liga side Atlético Madrid...

ANDREW COLLINS  is the CEO of Mailman, a Shanghai-based digital marketing agency. The company has helped more than 50 sports and tourism brands -- including Liverpool and ManU, among others -- develop their digital presence in the country. In addition to its work as an agency, Mailman also is...

U.S. TV viewers will soon have access to live coverage of most of Cuba’s top boxing and baseball action. Of the content available on CubaNetwork, a new channel led by CEO Keith Bass, 15-20% will be sports-related, with the rest of the programming ranging from...