By Nick Harris 4 February 2010 Chelsea have today been cleared of wrongdoing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the 2007 signing of Gaël Kakuta from Lens in France after the clubs reached an unspecified “agreement” over the player’s move. To reach this conclusion and avoid the case dragging on, Chelsea paid an undisclosed […]

3 February 2010 A report in the Herald Sun in Australia says Tiger Woods could return to action in a couple of weeks. Without citing a source, the paper says: “Tiger Woods is poised to make a shock return to competitive golf in a fortnight at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona. Only a fortnight […]

3 February 2010 The build-up to Super Bowl continues and the New York Times does its typically excellent job in covering all bases. We like the snappy style of their Saints media day presentation, and at the heart of the story this weekend will be memories of a hurricane, and the faith of those who […]

By Nick Harris 2 February 2010 Liverpool’s Spirit of Shankly supporters’ union, which has been campaigning to oust the club’s American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, has today released minutes of a meeting with the club’s managing director, Christian Purslow, that are likely to have an incendiary effect at Anfield, that expose the club’s […]

By Nick Harris 1 February 2010 Britain needs a multi-sport anti-corruption unit with wide-ranging powers to tackle the threat of betting-related malpractice, according to a substantial government-commissioned report, published today. The Sports Betting Intelligence Unit, which will be based at the Gambling Commission if it comes to fruition, has been proposed by Rick Parry, the […]

By Nick Harris 31 January 2010 Roger Federer extended his record as the most prolific winner of men’s Grand Slam singles titles in Melbourne today by beating Andy Murray in straight sets to win the Australian Open. Fereder’s 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (13-11) victory gave him his 16th Slam singles title and left Murray, 22, in […]

By Nick Harris 31 January 2010 In a development that will have huge positive financial consequences for the elite of European football, including the biggest clubs in the Premier League,  the Champions’ League final has overtaken the Super Bowl as the most popular televised event in global club sport. (NB: club sport). An influential report, […]

By Nick Harris 26 January 2010 The revelation last night by Fifa’s president, Sepp Blatter, that bidding to host the 2018 World Cup could be restricted to candidates from Europe won’t necessarily increase England’s chances of staging the tournament. In those circumstances, eight key Fifa voters within Europe would get a “free hand” where to […]

By Nick Harris 20 January Live coverage of every match in the 2010 Indian Premier League cricket season will be screened free-to-air, globally, on a dedicated YouTube channel, in every TV market except America, after a landmark agreement today between the IPL and Indian arm of Google, which owns YouTube. At face value, the agreement […]

16 January 2010 Darren Cahill, the former tennis player turned coach with Lleyton Hewitt and Andre Agassi among his former clients, has tipped Britain’s Andy Murray to win the Australian Open, about to start in Melbourne. The Aussie’s view is reported here in the Sydney Morning Herald, and he also predicts a decline in the […]