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Sky deal sabotage? Boxxer sues former executive

Boxxer battles alleged insider sabotage in court, with reputations and fighter contracts on the line.Boxing promotion Boxxer is in the Royal Courts of Justice...

Has the 2025 Club World Cup laid the groundwork for future...

The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup garnered an estimated 2.7 billion viewers across the competition, according to figures from FIFA. The competition, reformatted to become...

How SailGP shifts the model beyond the waves

Insider Sport speaks with SailGP Managing Director Andrew Thompson on the league’s ambition to redefine high-performance sailing. From the spectacle of hydrofoiling catamarans to...

Q&A: Gentoo Media’s Nikola Lero on why UX drives retention in...

User experience is becoming a decisive battleground in sports betting. As margins tighten and acquisition costs rise, the operators winning share are those that...

Is rugby having an existential crisis?

With national unions and professional clubs collectively losing hundreds of millions, a reliance on the occasional profits of the Rugby World Cup is threatening...

WSL opens with packed Emirates and new TV era

Arsenal’s 4–1 win before 38,142 at the Emirates set the tone for the Women’s Super League’s first weekend, as a new five-year domestic broadcast...

Q&A: Entain’s Ivan Gojic on the operating model for CEE sportsbooks

Where sport runs deep, betting follows. In the Balkans the two are tightly linked. Fans track domestic leagues as closely as European competition, and...

On TV and Snapchat, the Women’s Rugby World Cup is growing

England’s 69-7 thrashing over the US in the opening game of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup was watched by over two million people...

NFL consolidates UK market with new broadcast deal

The NFL have inked a new UK broadcast rights agreement with Sky Sports and 5 as part of a mutli-year agreement. Sky Sports will continue...

Why the Bundesliga handed the mic to YouTube creators

When the Bundesliga awarded a split of 20 live games to Mark Goldbridge’s That’s Football and Gary Neville’s The Overlap YouTube channels, it raised...