NEW YORK: Former NBA commissioner David Stern was admitted to a New York City hospital Thursday afternoon after suffering a brain hemorrhage, the league announced.
"NBA commissioner emeritus David Stern suffered a sudden brain hemorrhage earlier today (Thursday) for which he underwent emergency surgery," the NBA said in a…
THE EUROPEAN TOUR, in partnership with esports specialists DreamHack and Topgolf Entertainment Group, has launched golf’s first esports series, the European eTour.
Starting at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship presented by EGA in January, the inaugural season-long eTour will feature six esports contests held at European Tour…
MUMBAI: LaLiga Friday announced Dream11 as the league’s Official Fantasy Game in India.
Through this five-season partnership deal, that runs till the end of 2023-24 season, football fans in India will get an opportunity to engage deeply with the league and showcase their knowledge by creating their own virtual teams. The 70…
LONDON: The Ladies European Tour, in what it is calling a "ground-breaking agreement", has confirmed its association with the first-ever professional women’s golf event in Saudi Arabia, one of the most gender-segregated countries in the world.
The irony is not to be missed of course but oil money talks. And how!
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NEW DELHI: The Odisha government has won the Best State Promoting Sports Award at the FICCI India Sports Awards 2019 held here on Wednesday.
Odisha Sports Minister Tusharkanti Behera and Secretary Vishal Kumar Dev received the award on behalf of the state government at a function where sporting icons were honoured for their…
BHUBANESWAR: Indian Super League franchise Odisha FC and Special Olympics Bharat have collaborated for promoting the initiative of inclusiveness in sports via football.
Prakash Rath, area director, SO Bharat - Odisha and Aakash Narula, head, Football Development, Odisha FC, were present to kick-start the one-year partnership…
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Following 12 months of research, analysis and testing, the International Hockey Federation has revealed details of the new FIH World Ranking system that will be employed from 1 January 2020.
The fresh approach – which has been approved by the FIH executive board – sees a switch from the existing…
LONDON: At a special meeting held Thursday, Premier League clubs approved the appointment of interim chief executive Richard Masters as its CEO on a permanent basis,
finally filling a vacancy that has been open since the departure of Richard Scudamore in November 2018.
Masters, formerly the organisation's managing…
MUMBAI: The VIVO IPL 2020 Player Auction list is out with a total of 332 cricketers set to go under the hammer in Kolkata on December 19th.
While 997 players had initially registered, the final list has been pruned after the eight franchises submitted their shortlist of players.
With Rs 20 million as the highest…
MUMBAI: Uday Shankar, president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, has named the successor to Sanjay Gupta, till recently, country manager of Star & Disney India, in an internal mail sent out Friday morning.
K Madhavan, managing director (South), Star India, has been appointed Star &…