By Nick Harris 31 March 2010 The Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Scudamore, has lambasted the decision by Ofcom, the UK communications regular, to force BSkyB to offers its sports channels to rivals at cheaper prices, fixed by Ofcom. Ofcom’s decision can be seen in detail on its website, where the key point is: “Ofcom […]

29 March 2010 Rebecca Adlington, Britain’s swimming heroine of the Beijing Olympics and one of the big home hopes in the pool for London 2012, returned to form today at the British Gas national championships in Sheffield when she cruised to victory in the 200m ahead of Jazmin Carlin and Jo Jackson, her freestyle rivals […]

29 March 2010 ESPN will add exclusive coverage of the NFL’s ‘Monday Night Football’ to its TV schedules in the UK from September. Viewers of ESPN – which has been growing its pay-TV base by acquiring live Premier League rights in recent times – will be able to see 17 games per season. More here […]

29 March 2010 The headline findings from our Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries have been making more headlines than we could ever have imagined . . . on the BBC . . . in Russian . . .  in Korean . . . and in Russian again (like the pic!) . . . in […]

By Nick Harris 29 March 2010 When Manchester United take on Bayern Munich in the first leg of their quarter-final in the Champions League in Germany on Tuesday night, they’ll do so with a squad that’s slightly older, slightly shorter and almost twice as loyal when measured by how long their players have stayed with […]

29 March 2010 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a 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 […]

By Pete Wilson 29 March 2010 Briton’s foremost ultra-distance runner, William Sichel, is a former cancer patient who lives on the remote Orkney island of Sanday and makes a living hand-dyeing Angora wool to be made into clothes, including thermal underwear. His sporting life is not so conventional (and yes, we’ve cracked that joke before). […]

By Nick Harris 29 March 2010 Sven Goran Eriksson has said this morning that he is “relishing” the prospect of managing the Ivory Coast at this summer’s World Cup in South Africa, telling sportingintelligence: “I’m absolutely delighted to have this opportunity, and I’m very much relishing the chance to go to my third World Cup […]

By Pete Wilson 28 March 2010 Sven Goran Eriksson landed his fifth job in four years this evening when he signed a contract to manage the Ivory Coast, aka Les Elephants, at this summer’s World Cup in South Africa, where the West African nation could face England in the semi-finals or final. Eriksson was the […]

29 March 2010 . . . to those users who have been having trouble accessing the site at times through parts of yesterday evening (Sunday 28 March), and this morning. Due to demand and some coding problems, access has been intermittent for some users. Engineers are trying to fix the problem. Thanks for your patience, […]