By Nick Harris 22 April 2010 The Minister for Sport, Gerry Sutcliffe, and his counterparts in the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party, Don Foster and Hugh Robertson, have revealed key ideological differences in their approach to the governance and organisation of sport in Britain in an exclusive series of interviews for sportingintelligence, but they […]

By Nick Harris 22 April 2010 Britain will hold a general election on Thursday 6 May. The current Labour government under PM Gordon Brown will either retain power or be replaced by David Cameron’s Conservative Party or Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats. Another scenario is a hung parliament and a power-sharing regime; key posts could be […]

By Nick Harris 21 April 2010 The NBA’s regular-season crowds for the 2009-10 season have echoed those in the NHL and NFL by dipping year-on-year, but only slightly according to a new analysis of attendances by sportingintelligence that highlights some intriguing individual “ups” and “downs” in numbers. After number-crunching official data, we have calculated that […]

By Nick Harris 21 April 2010 The administrator of Portsmouth, Andrew Andronikou, last month revealed exclusively to sportingintelligence the true extent of the club’s debts was closer to £100m than the £60m widely reported and now in an extraordinary document available for public scrutiny – parts of which we extract here – he has laid […]

By Pete Wilson 20 April 2010 The NHL has followed the NFL in registering a season-on-season decline in crowds according to a sportingintelligence analysis of NHL attendances for the 2009-10 regular season. But just as the NFL’s drop in numbers was small given the severity of the recession (a one per cent drop), so the […]

By Nick Harris 19 April 2010 As the former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu has declared himself “not happy” at what he calls an “excessive” nine-month ban from all football, handed out in Italy under anti-doping laws for taking an appetite suppressant, sibutramine, an analysis by sportingintelligence of disciplinary action taken by the Football Association in […]

16 April 2010 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the […]

16 April 2010 Liverpool have today confirmed details about their future that most of the world has known for at least five days already, namely that they’re up for sale and they have a new chairman, Martin Broughton. He hopes to sell the club on behalf of the American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, […]

16 April 2010 Carson Yeung, the owner and president of Birmingham City, has been a man of mystery to fans and media alike since he first arrived at the club in 2007 hoping to buy it. Most recently, yesterday, he was in the spotlight amid claims the club was about to fall under the control […]

ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went […]